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• Alberdina Wilhelmina Maria Hulsink (68), Babberich, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aalt van de Streek (83), Heerde, Gld, NL
• Dinie Steenhuisen (84), Twello
• Achilles Antoine Bergen (88), Sint-Truiden, België
• Deloras Mae Ver Meer (73), Rutland-South Dakota (USA)
• Catharina Lamberdina van de Sande (89), Boekel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ber Koster (76), Oisterwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Dekker (79), Hardenberg
• Elisabeth Janssen (85), Helmond
• Catharina Cornelia Gerharda (Corrie) Prenger (85), Dordrecht

• 1987 » AnnaLynne McCord, American actress and producer
• 1987 » Mousa Dembélé, Belgian footballer
• 1988 » Sergio Busquets, Spanish footballer
• 1989 » Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer
• 1990 » Bureta Faraimo, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 » Johann Zarco, French motorcycle racer
• 1990 » Wizkid, Nigerian singer and songwriter
• 1991 » Andros Townsend, English footballer
• 1991 » Nate Schmidt, American ice hockey player
• 1996 » Daniel Pearson, English actor and presenter

• 2011 » Forrest Blue, American football player (b. 1944)
• 2012 » Ed Lincoln, Brazilian bassist, pianist, and composer (b. 1932)
• 2012 » Gilbert Esau, American businessman and politician (b. 1919)
• 2012 » Kitty Wells, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1919)
• 2012 » Masaharu Matsushita, Japanese businessman (b. 1913)
• 2012 » Stephen Covey, American businessman and author (b. 1932)
• 2012 » William Asher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2013 » Alex Colville, Canadian painter and academic (b. 1920)
• 2013 » Marv Rotblatt, American baseball player (1927)
• 2014 » Karl Albrecht, German businessman, co-founded Aldi (b. 1920)

• 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.
• March 11 » A U.S. soldier kills 16 civilians in the Panjwayi District of Afghanistan near Kandahar.
• 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 9 » A wave of attacks kill more than 100 people and injure 350 others across Iraq.
• November 18 » Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria becomes the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria.
• December 12 » North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2.
• December 14 » Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

The temperature on July 16, 2012 was between 13.6 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 20.7 mm of rain during 13.3 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.