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• Dick Addink (93), Sioux Center, Iowa, United States
• Boukje Zandberg (91), Heerde
• Alida van der Heide (91), Den Helder
• Bonnie Funderburk Stallings (84), Colfax, Guilford County, North Carolina
• Carolina Petronella Christina van den Beuken (96), Helden
• Adrianus Antonius van den Oetelaar (61), Schijndel
• Carolina Theodora Hendrika de Graaf (98), Burbank,Californi‰
• Darlene Marie Manders (54), Sylvania, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Antoinet Verweijen (94), Tilburg
• Comte Wenceslas Jacques Marie Joseph Ghislain de 't SERCLAES de WOMMERSOM (88), Uccle, 1180, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique

• 1990 » Kevin Connauton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Marco Scandella, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Terry Hawkridge, English footballer
• 1992 » Casemiro, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1993 » Chris Grevsmuhl, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 » Dakota Fanning, American actress
• 1995 » Andrew Wiggins, Canadian basketball player
• 1996 » D'Angelo Russell, American basketball player
• 1997 » Jamal Murray, Canadian basketball player

• 2010 » Orlando Zapata, Cuban plumber and activist (b. 1967)
• 2011 » Nirmala Srivastava, Indian religious leader, founded Sahaja Yoga (b. 1923)
• 2012 » David Sayre, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1924)
• 2012 » Kazimierz Żygulski, Polish sociologist and activist (b. 1919)
• 2012 » William Raggio, American lawyer and politician (b. 1926)
• 2013 » Eugene Bookhammer, American soldier and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (b. 1918)
• 2013 » Joseph Friedenson, Holocaust survivor, Holocaust historian, Yiddish writer, lecturer and editor (b. 1922)
• 2013 » Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (b. 1920)
• 2013 » Lotika Sarkar, Indian lawyer and academic (b. 1945)
• 2014 » Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-English Holocaust survivor, pianist and educator (b. 1903)

• 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 15 » Three hundred sixty people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua.
• February 26 » A train derails in Burlington, Ontario, Canada killing at least three people and injuring 45.
• May 21 » A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others.
• June 29 » A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
• September 21 » Three Egyptian militants open fire on a group of Israeli soldiers in a southern Israel cross-border attack.
• October 1 » A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.

The temperature on February 23, 2012 was between 6.0 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (18%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.