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• Catherine Naomi de MIK (90), South Jordan, Salt Lake County, Utah
• Franciscus Peperkamp (65), Arnhem,Arnhem,Gelderland,Nederland
• Eimert (Tom) Vink (83), St Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada
• Edna Berniece Marshall (99), Morton, Tazewell, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Frederikus Fredericus Draaisma (91), Haarlem, Nederland
• Beatrice Opel McGhee (73), Lock Haven, Clinton County, Pennsylvania
• Gerrit Veldhuizen (77), Westbroek
• Anthony Joe TERRELL, Lake City, Georgia
• Gerard Wels (73), Den Dungen
• Gerald Ray ('Jerry') Orange (79), Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, Verenigde Staten

• 1988 » Ayano Ōmoto, Japanese singer and dancer
• 1988 » Sergei Bobrovsky, Russian ice hockey player
• 1990 » John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Phillip Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1991 » Isaac Cofie, Ghanaian footballer
• 1992 » Michał Żyro, Polish footballer
• 1993 » Julian Draxler, German footballer
• 1995 » Laura Dekker, Dutch sailor
• 1995 » Rob Holding, English footballer
• 1996 » Ioana Loredana Roșca, Romanian tennis player

• 2010 » Leonard Skinner, American soldier and educator (b. 1933)
• 2011 » Burhanuddin Rabbani, Afghan academic and politician, 10th President of Afghanistan (b. 1940)
• 2011 » Oscar Handlin, American historian and author (b. 1915)
• 2012 » Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (b. 1935)
• 2012 » Richard H. Cracroft, American author and academic (b. 1936)
• 2012 » Tereska Torrès, French soldier and author (b. 1920)
• 2013 » Gilles Verlant, Belgian journalist and critic (b. 1957)
• 2013 » James B. Vaught, American general (b. 1926)
• 2014 » Anatoly Berezovoy, Russian colonel, pilot, and cosmonaut (b. 1942)
• 2014 » Polly Bergen, American actress and singer (b. 1930)

• 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.
• January 12 » Violent protests occur in Bucharest, Romania, as two-day-old demonstrations continue against President Traian Băsescu's economic austerity measures. Clashes are reported in numerous Romanian cities between protesters and law enforcement officers.
• February 13 » The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
• February 15 » Three hundred sixty people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua.
• April 21 » Two trains are involved in a head-on collision near Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, injuring 116 people.
• June 15 » Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls.
• July 7 » At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.

The temperature on September 20, 2012 was between 4.6 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.