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• Floris Groeneveld (73), Rotterdam-Pernis
• Darrel Wayne Gunnink (65), Fitchburg, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Edmond Kerremans (86)
• Antoon van Beek (73)
• Delores M Zeestraten (75), Pickney, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Dirk van El (93), Den Helder
• Gerhardus (Gerard) van de Van De Beek (71), Gem.Heerde Gelderland
• Cornelia HERPEN, van (91), Woudrichem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Geertruida Truus van Driesten (86)
• Engelbertus Wilhelmus KUIPER (72), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1990 » Duvashen Padayachee, Australian race car driver
• 1990 » Irina Falconi, American tennis player
• 1990 » Ryan Morgan, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Brianne Jenner, Canadian women's ice hockey player
• 1992 » Victor Oladipo, American basketball player
• 1993 » Jānis Bērziņš, Latvian basketball player
• 1994 » Abi Masatora, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1994 » Joseph Tapine, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1996 » Pelayo Roza, Spanish sprint canoeist
• 1997 » Max King, Australian rugby league player

• 2011 » Sammy McCrory, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1924)
• 2012 » Adam Yauch, American rapper and director (b. 1964)
• 2012 » Bob Stewart, American television producer, founded Stewart Tele Enterprises (b. 1920)
• 2012 » Mort Lindsey, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1923)
• 2012 » Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (b. 1963)
• 2013 » Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 2013 » Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician (b. 1948)
• 2013 » Mario Machado, Chinese-American journalist and actor (b. 1935)
• 2013 » Morgan Morgan-Giles, English admiral and politician (b. 1914)
• 2013 » Otis R. Bowen, American physician and politician, 44th Governor of Indiana (b. 1918)

• 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 6 » Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali.
• April 16 » The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway.
• 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.
• September 11 » A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.
• November 21 » At least 28 are wounded after a bomb is thrown onto a bus in Tel Aviv.

The temperature on May 4, 2012 was between 7.0 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.