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• Grietje (Greet) van de Vlekkert (83), Amersfoort
• Arie Hendrik van Staalduinen (92), 's-Gravenzande
• Gerardina Aletta van Nes (84), Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Eric Hobsbawm (95)
• anna karis (91), helden-panningen
• Geertrui van den Berg (97), Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Evelyn M. Potter (92), Waterloo, Black Hawk Co., IA
• Adriana Helena [Sjaan] van den Berg (97), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Henrica Maria Appels (92), Nuland
• Cornelis Maria (Cor) Adrichem, van (92), Beringe,, Limburg, Nederland

• 1986 » Ricardo Vaz Tê, Portuguese footballer
• 1987 » Hiroki Aiba, Japanese actor and singer
• 1987 » Mitchell Aubusson, Australian rugby league player
• 1989 » Brie Larson, American actress
• 1990 » Albert Prosa, Estonian footballer
• 1990 » Pedro Filipe Mendes, Portuguese footballer
• 1991 » Conor Clifford, Irish footballer
• 1991 » Rain Veideman, Estonian basketball player
• 1992 » Xander Bogaerts, Aruban baseball player
• 1995 » Lauren Hill, American basketball player († 2015)

• 2011 » Sven Tumba, Swedish ice hockey player and golfer (b. 1931)
• 2012 » Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-English historian and author (b. 1917)
• 2012 » Mark R. Kravitz, American lawyer and judge (b. 1950)
• 2012 » Moshe Sanbar, Hungarian-Israeli economist and banker (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Octavio Getino, Spanish-Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
• 2012 » Shlomo Venezia, Greek-Italian Holocaust survivor and author (b. 1923)
• 2013 » Arnold Burns, American lawyer and politician, 21st United States Deputy Attorney General (b. 1930)
• 2013 » Imero Fiorentino, American lighting designer (b. 1928)
• 2013 » Israel Gutman, Polish-Israeli historian and author (b. 1923)
• 2013 » Tom Clancy, American author (b. 1947)

• 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.
• May 19 » Three gas cylinder bombs explode in front of a vocational school in the Italian city of Brindisi, killing one person and injuring five others.
• June 19 » WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.
• September 6 » Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.
• September 28 » Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.
• November 6 » Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
• November 30 » An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane belonging to Aéro-Service, crashes into houses near Maya-Maya Airport during a thunderstorm, killing at least 32 people.

The temperature on October 1, 2012 was between 10.0 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (41%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.