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• Quinn van de Langenberg, Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Albert Hendrik Gerardus van der Leeuw (72), Weert
• Cornelius James Schrader (45), Hawera, Taranaki, New Zealand
• Frans Van deun (85), Turnhout
• Cornelis Johannes van Doorn (86), Breezand
• Anthonius Hendricus Bruijnzeels (86), Capelle aan de Ijssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alie Versluis (88), Meerkerk (Vijfheerenlanden), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Johanna Sander (85), Oostende
• Gaston Louis Gerard (Gaston) Kempeneers (87), Sint-Truiden, België
• Cornelis Johannes Vissenberg (86), Sint Wilebrord
• Anthonie Haverhals (87), Kaatsheuvel

• 1991 » Torstein Andersen Aase, Norwegian footballer
• 1992 » Marrion Gopez, Filipino actor, singer, and dancer
• 1993 » Nabil Jeffri, Malaysian racing driver
• 1994 » Jalen Ramsey, American football player
• 1994 » Krystal, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
• 1994 » Tereza Martincová, Czech tennis player
• 1995 » Vincent Leuluai, Australian rugby league player
• 1996 » Kyla Ross, American gymnast
• 1997 » Claudia Fragapane, English gymnast
• 1998 » Daya, American singer

• 2011 » John McCarthy, American computer scientist and academic, developed the Lisp programming language (b. 1927)
• 2011 » Sansan Chien, Taiwanese composer and educator (b. 1967)
• 2012 » Anita Björk, Swedish actress (b. 1923)
• 2012 » Bill Dees, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
• 2012 » Jeff Blatnick, American wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1957)
• 2012 » Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (b. 1918)
• 2012 » Peggy Ahern, American actress (b. 1917)
• 2013 » Ana Bertha Lepe, Mexican model and actress (b. 1934)
• 2013 » Antonia Bird, English director and producer (b. 1951)
• 2013 » Brooke Greenberg, American girl with a rare genetic disorder (b. 1993)

• 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.
• February 26 » Trayvon Martin was shot and killed at the age of 17 in Sanford, Florida.
• April 27 » At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured.
• May 19 » A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing nine people.
• July 31 » Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.
• August 25 » Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.
• September 9 » The Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite yet, in a streak of 21 consecutive successful PSLV launches.

The temperature on October 24, 2012 was between 10.7 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.