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• Amber Hardenberg († 2013)

• Dirk van der Harst (81), Scheveningen
• Catharina Maria van Lijssel (83), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Dena MANS (90), Volga Brookings County South Dakota U.S.A
• Anna Maria Visser (88), Monnickendam, Nederland
• Dorothy Mae Faw **** (90), Eubank, Pulaski, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Betty de Kok (90), Zeeland, Ottawa County, Michigan
• Cornelis Leegwater (86)
• Barbara Naiman (73), Monterey, Monterey, California, Verenigde Staten
• André Waterinckx (87), Dendermonde (B), België
• Adolf Maria Jacob Hubert Graaf van Korff-Schmising-Kerssenbrock (88), Bad Oldesloe, Sleeswijk-Holstein

• 1984 » Alastair Cook, English cricketer
• 1984 » Chris Cahill, Samoan footballer
• 1985 » Martin Mathathi, Kenyan runner
• 1985 » Rusev, Bulgarian-American professional wrestler
• 1987 » Ceyhun Gülselam, Turkish footballer
• 1987 » Demaryius Thomas, American football player
• 1988 » Eric Gordon, American basketball player
• 1988 » Joãozinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 » Lukas Hinds-Johnson, German rugby player
• 1992 » Mitakeumi Hisashi, Japanese sumo wrestler

• 2011 » Giorgio Bocca, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
• 2011 » Jim Sherwood, American saxophonist (b. 1942)
• 2011 » Simms Taback, American author and illustrator (b. 1932)
• 2012 » Şerafettin Elçi, Turkish lawyer, politician, government minister (b. 1938)
• 2012 » Erico Aumentado, Filipino journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1940)
• 2012 » Halfdan Hegtun, Norwegian radio host and politician (b. 1918)
• 2012 » Joe Krivak, American football player and coach (b. 1935)
• 2012 » Turki bin Sultan, Saudi Arabian politician (b. 1959)
• 2013 » Anthony J. Bryant, American historian and author (b. 1961)
• 2013 » David R. Harris, English geographer, anthropologist, archaeologist and academic (b. 1930)

• 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.
• April 16 » The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
• July 31 » Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.
• August 5 » The Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting took place in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six victims; the perpetrator committed suicide after being wounded by police.
• September 11 » A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.
• December 12 » North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2.

The temperature on December 25, 2012 was between 7.4 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 15.2 mm of rain during 12.2 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (10%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.