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• Allan DANN (76), Albury, New South Wales, Australia
• Clementine Yvonne Christine Hermine Antoinette van Dijkhuizen (87), Brighton, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada
• Anthony J. (Spike) van Zee (93), Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Diewerdiena Klaassiena Lenderink (64), Hengelo
• Donna Jean Schakel (82), Ventura, Ventura County, California
• Antje Abeltje Bolhuis (71), Almere
• Alida - Liedje Mensen (95), Emmen, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Betty E. Schrader (89), Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Clara Toorenberg (95), Baarn
• Geertruida Margaretha Straathof (86), Alphen aan den Rijn

• 1988 » Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer
• 1989 » Aleix Vidal, Spanish footballer
• 1989 » Charlison Benschop, Dutch footballer
• 1989 » Hayden Panettiere, American actress
• 1989 » James Davey, English rugby league player
• 1989 » Matteo Gentili, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Bo Burnham, American comedian, musician, actor, filmmaker and poet
• 1991 » Leandro Bacuna, Dutch footballer
• 1992 » Felipe Nasr, Brazilian race car driver
• 2000 » Kate Valdez, Filipina actress and singer

• 2012 » Don Raleigh, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Georg Leber, German soldier and politician, Federal Minister of Defence for Germany (b. 1920)
• 2012 » Guy Spitaels, Belgian academic and politician, 7th Minister-President of Wallonia (b. 1931)
• 2012 » J. Frank Raley Jr., American soldier and politician (b. 1926)
• 2012 » William Thurston, American mathematician and academic (b. 1946)
• 2013 » C. Gordon Fullerton, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1936)
• 2013 » Enos Nkala, Zimbabwean politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence (b. 1932)
• 2013 » Fred Martin, Scottish footballer (b. 1929)
• 2013 » Jean Berkey, American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
• 2013 » Sid Bernstein, American record producer (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.
• February 23 » A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.
• April 16 » The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway.
• May 21 » A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others.
• June 2 » Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
• June 19 » WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.
• November 17 » At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt.

The temperature on August 21, 2012 was between 14.9 °C and 26.7 °C and averaged 20.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.