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• Eelke Wiebren Douma (81), Leongatha, Victoria (Australië)
• Cornelia Bischop (95)
• Ankerdina Harms (85), Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anton Dogterom (81), Harderwijk, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Charlotte (59)
• Dirk Frederik Driessen (66), Amersfoort
• Apolonia Petronella Letschert (81), Bergen op zoom NB, The Netherlands
• Andreas Jozef Antonius Veltkamp (66), Amsterdam
• Arendje de Vreugd (81), Katwijk
• Alida Krijgsman (92), Katwijk aan Zee

• 1987 » Greg Eastwood, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1987 » Martellus Bennett, American football player
• 1988 » Ivan Rakitić, Croatian football player
• 1988 » Josh Hoffman, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
• 1992 » Neeskens Kebano, French-born Congolese international footballer
• 1993 » Jack Butland, English footballer
• 1995 » DaeSean Hamilton, American football player
• 1995 » Sergey Mozgov, Russian ice dancer
• 1995 » Zach LaVine, American basketball player
• 1997 » Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player

• 2010 » Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)
• 2010 » Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian scholar and academic (b. 1928)
• 2011 » Bill Blackbeard, American author and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
• 2012 » Jean Giraud, French author and illustrator (b. 1938)
• 2015 » Richard Glatzer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1952)
• 2016 » Anita Brookner, English novelist and art historian (b. 1928)
• 2016 » Jovito Salonga, Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (b. 1920)
• 2016 » Ken Adam, German-English production designer and art director (b. 1921)
• 2016 » Roberto Perfumo, Argentinian footballer and sportscaster

• 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 13 » The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy due to the captain Francesco Schettino's negligence and irresponsibility. There are 32 confirmed deaths.
• July 4 » The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
• July 7 » At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
• July 30 » A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300million people without power in northern India.
• November 9 » A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.
• November 13 » A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific

The temperature on March 10, 2012 was between 7.6 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (15%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.