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• Meike Severens, Heerlen (L)

• Hendrik Richterink (75), Bruchterveld
• Donald Walter Mealing (88), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Gerrit Jan Kuiper (85), Almelo, Nederland
• "George" René Simón Ortiz Patiño (86), Genève, Suisse
• Gertrudis Elisabeth Mathilda (Truke) Schouten (97), Horn
• Feikje Froukje van der Ploeg (82), Leeuwarden
• Fennechien Wassen (75)
• Ellis Robert ROESBERRY (76), Emmett Gem County Idaho U.S.A
• Adrianus Anthonius Bakker (81), De Rijp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Leeman (83), Ieper,West-Vlaanderen,België

• 1992 » Lidziya Marozava, Belarusian tennis player
• 1992 » Maria João Koehler, Portuguese tennis player
• 1993 » Barbara Palvin, Hungarian model and actress
• 1993 » Darrell Wallace, Jr., American race car driver
• 1993 » Garbiñe Muguruza, Spanish tennis player
• 1993 » Molly Quinn, American actress and producer
• 1996 » Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spanish tennis player
• 1996 » Sara Takanashi, Japanese ski jumper
• 1997 » Bella Thorne, American actress
• 1999 » Camila Rossi, Brazilian rhythmic gymnast

• 2012 » Eric Lomax, Scottish captain and author (b. 1919)
• 2012 » Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1955)
• 2012 » Nawal Kishore Sharma, Indian politician, 20th Governor of Gujarat (b. 1925)
• 2012 » Varsha Bhosle, Indian singer and journalist (b. 1956)
• 2013 » Akong Rinpoche, Tibetan-Chinese spiritual leader (b. 1939)
• 2013 » Andy Pafko, American baseball player and manager (b. 1921)
• 2013 » Paul Desmarais, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1927)
• 2013 » Philip Chevron, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1957)
• 2013 » Rod Grams, American journalist and politician (b. 1948)
• 2013 » Rodolphe Kasser, Swiss archaeologist and philologist (b. 1927)

• 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 Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
• January 29 » Alabama bunker hostage crisis: After shooting and killing of school bus driver, 66 years old Charles Albert Poland, Jr, by 65 year old Vietnam War era veteran, Jimmy Lee Dykes.
• March 29 » At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
• April 29 » A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people.
• August 14 » Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
• August 19 » The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
• December 15 » The South Sudanese Civil War begins when opposition leaders Dr. Riek Machar, Pagan Amum and Rebecca Nyandeng vote to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council at Nyakuron.

The temperature on October 8, 2013 was between 7.1 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.