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• Aleida Gerritdina Scholten (79), Nijmegen
• Grietje van der Meer (85)
• Anna Sara Aarnoutsen (95), Sluis 3, Vries, Drenthe, Nederland
• Elisabeth Gerarda Koek (97), Kaag en Brasem
• Dennis Lee Geraets (60), Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus van Dam (89)
• Berendina Hendrika Johanna van Dartel (89), 's Gravenhage
• Emelda Vananroye (90), Sint-Truiden, België
• Hedwig Porte (68)
• Eugene ROOSMA (83), Seattle, King County, Washington, Verenigde Staten

• 1989 » Thiemo-Jérôme Kialka, German footballer
• 1991 » Matt Srama, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Pixie Lott, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1992 » Ishak Belfodil, Algerian footballer
• 1992 » Samuele Longo, Italian footballer
• 1993 » Do Kyungsoo, South Korean singer and member of boy band EXO
• 1993 » Simone Pecorini, Italian footballer
• 1993 » Zayn Malik, English singer-songwriter
• 1995 » Alessio Romagnoli, Italian footballer
• 1995 » Sarah Mehain, Canadian Paralympic swimmer

• 2013 » Eugene Patterson, American journalist and activist (b. 1923)
• 2013 » Precious Bryant, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
• 2014 » Alexandra Bastedo, English actress (b. 1946)
• 2014 » Connie Binsfeld, American educator and politician, 58th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (b. 1924)
• 2014 » George Dement, American soldier, businessman, and politician (b. 1922)
• 2015 » Carl Long, American baseball player (b. 1935)
• 2015 » Elena Obraztsova, Russian soprano and actress (b. 1939)
• 2015 » Inge Vermeulen, Brazilian-Dutch field hockey player (b. 1985)
• 2015 » Robert Gover, American journalist and author (b. 1929)
• 2015 » Trevor Colbourn, American historian and academic (b. 1927)

• Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called 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.
• February 22 » President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328–0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.
• April 22 » More than 60 people are killed and 80 are seriously injured in a train crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.
• October 1 » A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in Bulgaria completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people.
• October 14 » A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
• October 31 » During a test flight, the VSS Enterprise, a Virgin Galactic experimental spaceflight test vehicle, suffers a catastrophic in-flight breakup and crashes in the Mojave Desert, California
• November 12 » The Philae lander, deployed from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, reaches the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

The temperature on January 12, 2014 was between -2.0 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (79%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.