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• Claire B. Titus (80), Voorhees, Camden Co., New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Betty Alice Coleman (62), Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Josephus Leijtens (89)
• Denis Ray Wittig (73), Roscommon, Roscommon Co., MI
• Francina Maria Middelkoop (98), Culemborg
• Edward Macon Ware (88), Essex, Virginia, United States
• Anne Broekman (81), Apeldoorn
• Dirk Anthonie Heijkoop (88), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Helena Kamping (93), Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Catharina de Rooij (91), Weesp

• 1987 » Austin Jackson, American baseball player
• 1987 » Moises Henriques, Portuguese-Australian cricketer
• 1987 » Ronda Rousey, American mixed martial artist and actress
• 1987 » Sebastian Boenisch, Polish footballer
• 1988 » Brett Anderson, American baseball player
• 1989 » Ricky Pinheiro, Portuguese footballer
• 1991 » Kyle Palmieri, American hockey player
• 1993 » Diego Mella, Italian footballer
• 1994 » Harry Styles, English singer-songwriter
• 1994 » Joe Boyce, Australian rugby league player

• 2012 » Don Cornelius, American television host and producer (b. 1936)
• 2012 » Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
• 2013 » Cecil Womack, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
• 2013 » Ed Koch, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 105th Mayor of New York City (b. 1924)
• 2013 » Helene Hale, American politician (b. 1918)
• 2013 » Shanu Lahiri, Indian painter and educator (b. 1928)
• 2014 » Luis Aragonés, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1938)
• 2014 » Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 2014 » Rene Ricard, American poet, painter, and critic (b. 1946)
• 2014 » Vasily Petrov, Russian marshal (b. 1917)

• 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 13 » The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
• February 23 » A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.
• May 10 » The Damascus bombings are carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside of a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people.
• May 30 » Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
• July 12 » Syrian Civil War: Government forces target the homes of rebels and activists in Tremseh and kill anywhere between 68 and 150 people.
• December 19 » Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea.

The temperature on February 1, 2012 was between -7.9 °C and -1.3 °C and averaged -4.9 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.