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• Finn Evaan van der Horst, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Cornelis van Nieuwenhuizen (79), harderwijk
• Antonetta de Geus (83), Rotterdam
• Gerard Boerhoop (61), Soest
• Edward Arthur Jones (85), Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
• Fennichien Altena (67)
• Daniel Arthur Hoppe (67), Howell Township (Monmouth County) (New Jersey)
• Ann Smith (62)
• Carolus Johannes (Carel) Plass (78), Enschede, 7500, Nederland
• Decima May Knight (92)
• Gerda Maria Wijnker (58), Kelowna (Canada)

• 1990 » Josh McGuire, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Malcolm Butler, American football player
• 1990 » Rauno Alliku, Estonian footballer
• 1990 » Tiger Shroff, Indian actor
• 1991 » Nick Franklin, American baseball player
• 1992 » Jack Stockwell, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Ange-Freddy Plumain, French footballer
• 1997 » Becky G, American singer and actress
• 2010 » Hailey Dawson, American with a 3D-printed robotic hand
• 2016 » Prince Oscar, duke of Skåne and prince of Sweden

• 2009 » João Bernardo Vieira, Bissau-Guinean politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939)
• 2010 » Winston Churchill, English journalist and politician (b. 1940)
• 2012 » James Q. Wilson, American political scientist and academic (b. 1931)
• 2012 » Lawrence Anthony, South African environmentalist, explorer, and author (b. 1950)
• 2012 » Norman St John-Stevas, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1929)
• 2012 » Van T. Barfoot, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1919)
• 2013 » Giorgos Kolokithas, Greek basketball player (b. 1945)
• 2013 » Peter Harvey, Australian journalist (b. 1944)
• 2013 » Shabnam Shakeel, Pakistani poet and author (b. 1942)
• 2014 » Ryhor Baradulin, Belarusian poet and translator (b. 1935)

• 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.
• June 3 » The pageant for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II takes place on the River Thames.
• July 12 » Syrian Civil War: Government forces target the homes of rebels and activists in Tremseh and kill anywhere between 68 and 150 people.
• October 9 » Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.
• November 11 » A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.
• November 24 » A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people.
• December 22 » Bashir Ahmad Bilour of Awami National Party and eight others are killed in a Pakistan Taliban bomber suicide attack in Dhaki Nalbandi area near Qissa Khwani Bazaar.

The temperature on March 2, 2012 was between 6.0 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.