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• Anton Koningsveld (geb. Bezaan) (91)
• Elizabeth Anna Schuitmaker (84), Heienoord
• Eva Rosalie Switzer (83), Paris Community Hospital Emergency Room, Paris, Edgar, Illinois, United States
• elisa wilhelmina (lies) hanssen (90), helden-panningen
• Ada van den Blink (81), rotterdam, Nederland
• Gerhardus Wilhelmus Spijker (82), Hardenberg
• Anna Catharina Maria Jongmans (89), Baarn
• Elisabeth Justina (Liesbeth) (Jkvr) de Beyer (57)
• Geertje van Osnabrugge
• Fien van de Klundert (80), Sint Willebrord

• 1988 » Jencarlos Canela, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1988 » Pedro Mosquera, Spanish footballer
• 1988 » Ricky Berens, American swimmer
• 1989 » Carlos Muñoz, Chilean footballer
• 1989 » Tatyana McFadden, Russian-American sprinter and skier
• 1990 » Aleksandar Prijović, Swiss-born Serbian footballer
• 1992 » Isco, Spanish footballer
• 1992 » Joc Pederson, American baseball player
• 1992 » Rene Santos, Brazilian footballer
• 1994 » Mitchell Weiser, German footballer

• 2011 » Catharina Halkes, Dutch theologian and academic (b. 1920)
• 2012 » Albert Falco, French captain and diver (b. 1927)
• 2012 » Charles Colson, American lawyer and activist, founded Prison Fellowship (b. 1931)
• 2012 » Charles Higham, English-American author and poet (b. 1931)
• 2012 » Doris Betts, American author and academic (b. 1932)
• 2012 » Jerry Toppazzini, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1931)
• 2013 » Chrissy Amphlett, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1959)
• 2013 » Gordon D. Gayle, American general and historian (b. 1917)
• 2013 » Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor, author, and educator (b. 1905)
• 2013 » Shakuntala Devi, Indian mathematician and astrologer (b. 1929)

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

1. Abby
2. Tess
3. Anna
4. Sophie
5. Emma
6. Iris
7. Indy
8. Julia
9. Tessa
10. Olivia
11. Lieke
12. Charlotte
13. Lotte
14. Eef
15. Luisa
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 21 » Two trains are involved in a head-on collision near Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, injuring 116 people.
• May 2 » A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.
• July 30 » A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
• September 28 » Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.
• October 29 » Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly, while leaving nearly $70 billion in damages and causing major power outages.
• November 13 » A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific

The temperature on April 21, 2012 was between 5.1 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.