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• Rylan Harvey Palmer, Spirit Lake, Dickinson County, Iowa († 2015)
• Dex YPERLAAN, Zoetermeer

• Dave Allen Woodard (66), Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• George Peter Hettinger (94), North Aurora, Kane, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Tange (97), Drachten, Smallingerland
• Ariena de Breed (47)
• Antoinette Gerritdina Maria Olde Bijvank (57), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Elfriede van Doorn (89), Bilthoven
• Antoinette Gerritdina Maria Olde Bijvank (57), Deventer
• Dania Anthonia Visser (84)
• Adriana Wilhelmina van Tetering (93), Prinsenbeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arden Morris Jerve (79), Minnesota

• 1988 » Elías Hernández, Mexican footballer
• 1991 » Adam Smith, English footballer
• 1991 » Jung Hye-sung, South Korean actress
• 1992 » Alina Rosenberg, German Paralympic equestrian
• 1992 » Emilio Orozco, American soccer player
• 1994 » Christina Shakovets, German tennis player
• 1995 » Victoria Sinitsina, Russian ice dancer
• 1996 » Katherine Langford, Australian actress
• 1998 » Kimberly Birrell, Australian tennis player
• 2007 » Infanta Sofía of Spain, Spanish princess

• 2011 » Joanna Russ, American writer, academic and radical feminist (b. 1937)
• 2011 » Siamak Pourzand, Iranian journalist and critic (b. 1931)
• 2012 » Joel Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (b. 1957)
• 2012 » Kenny Roberts, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Roland Moreno. French engineer, invented the smart card (b. 1945)
• 2012 » Shukri Ghanem, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1942)
• 2013 » Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player (b. 1992)
• 2013 » John La Montaine, American pianist and composer (b. 1920)
• 2013 » Parekura Horomia, New Zealand politician, 40th Minister of Māori Affairs (b. 1950)
• 2013 » Pesah Grupper, Israeli politician, 13th Israel Minister of Agriculture (b. 1924)

• 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.
• May 19 » A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing nine people.
• May 20 » At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy.
• July 12 » Syrian Civil War: Government forces target the homes of rebels and activists in Tremseh and kill anywhere between 68 and 150 people.
• July 31 » Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.
• August 11 » At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran.
• November 30 » An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane belonging to Aéro-Service, crashes into houses near Maya-Maya Airport during a thunderstorm, killing at least 32 people.

The temperature on April 29, 2012 was between 7.5 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.