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• De Waele, Leuven († 2012)

• Derk de Boer (91), Doornspijk
• Brandon James Thompson (26)
• Arie Prins (89), Papendrecht
• Bernard Arthur BRUNGES (84), Cedar Springs Kent County Michigan U.S.A
• Bartholomeus Antonius Maria van der Helm (71), Den Hoorn
• Eliane Monique Carette (69), Staden West-Vlaanderen, België
• Doortje van Delft (81)
• Adriana Johanna Hellegering (75), Lunteren
• Antje Tonica Zoutman (81)
• Alice Inez Keefer (81), Rowlett, Rockwall, Texas, Verenigde Staten

• 1985 » Gökhan Gönül, Turkish footballer
• 1985 » Kari Aalvik Grimsbø, Norwegian handball player
• 1986 » James Milner, English footballer
• 1986 » Younès Kaboul, French footballer
• 1989 » Graham Rahal, American race car driver
• 1990 » Toni Kroos, German footballer
• 1992 » Kris Bryant, American baseball player
• 1994 » Derrick Henry, American football player
• 1997 » Ante Žižić, Croatian basketball player
• 1998 » Liza Soberano, Filipina actress

• 2009 » Gert Jonke, Austrian poet, playwright, and author (b. 1946)
• 2010 » Johan Ferrier, Surinamese educator and politician, 1st President of Suriname (b. 1910)
• 2010 » Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese engineer (b. 1916)
• 2011 » Coen Moulijn, Dutch footballer (b. 1937)
• 2011 » Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
• 2011 » Salmaan Taseer, Pakistani businessman and politician, 26th Governor of Punjab, Pakistan (b. 1944)
• 2012 » Eve Arnold, American photographer and journalist (b. 1912)
• 2012 » Rod Robbie, English-Canadian architect, designed the Canadian Pavilion and Rogers Centre (b. 1928)
• 2013 » Anwar Shamim, Pakistani general (b. 1931)
• 2013 » Zoran Žižić, Montenegrin politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1951)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.7 million citizens.
• January 6 » Twenty-six people are killed and 63 wounded when a suicide bomber blows himself up at a police station in Damascus.
• February 1 » Seventy-four people are killed and over 500 injured as a result of clashes between fans of Egyptian football teams Al Masry and Al Ahly in the city of Port Said.
• July 30 » A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
• August 16 » South African police fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute at Marikana near Rustenburg.
• September 9 » A wave of attacks kill more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.
• December 11 » At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab, Syria.

The temperature on January 4, 2012 was between 5.4 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 8.0 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.