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• ANITA POPPE (67), WILRIJK,ANTWERPEN,BELGIE
• Alida van der Heide (91), Den Helder
• Arie Verschoor (90)
• Adrianus Antonius van den Oetelaar (61), Schijndel
• Carolina Petronella Christina van den Beuken (96), Helden
• Adriuanus Cornelis de Haan (70), Hellevoetsluis
• Adrianus Cornelis de Haan (70), Hellevoetsluis, Nederland
• "Edmond" Marie Régis de Houdetot (87), Grandcamp, Calvados, France
• Antoinet Verweijen (94), Tilburg
• Bonnie Jean Berg (65), Lockport, Niagara, New York, Verenigde Staten

• 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)

1. Nathan
2. Lucas
3. Bram
4. Jan
5. Thomas
6. Ruben
7. Finn
8. Liam
9. Jesse
10. Daan
11. Milan
12. Levi
13. Jacob
14. Thijs
15. Sem
16. Luuk

1. Abby
2. Tess
3. Anna
4. Sophie
5. Emma
6. Indy
7. Iris
8. Olivia
9. Julia
10. Tessa
11. Charlotte
12. Lotte
13. Luisa
14. Lieke
15. Eef
16. Eva

• 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.
• April 11 » A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-destructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias.
• May 13 » Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40.
• May 21 » A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others.
• June 24 » Death of Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise.
• June 29 » A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
• July 4 » The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.

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.