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• Geertruida ('Trudy') Nienhuis (94), Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Dawn Isabel Webb (76), Sugar Grove, Watauga, Noth Carolina (USA)
• Berend Antonides (93)
• Francis William George Griffiths (88), Thame, Oxfordshire, England
• Elsiena Anna Petronella (Els) VENINGA (71), Goes (NL/ZE)
• Edward T Spoth (94)
• gertruda andrea (truus) zelen (72)
• Bertha Slettenhaar (80), Nijverdal
• Carolina Maria Josepha Vandecruys (92), Ravels
• Albert Wijnderts Dikken (64), Vollenhove

• 1990 » Fernando Forestieri, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Paul Blake, English sprinter
• 1991 » Darya Klishina, Russian long jumper
• 1991 » James Mitchell, Australian basketball player
• 1991 » Marc Bartra, Spanish footballer
• 1991 » Nicolai Jørgensen, Danish footballer
• 1992 » Joël Veltman, Dutch footballer
• 1994 » Eric Dier, English footballer
• 1998 » Alexandra Eade, Australian artistic gymnast
• 2004 » Grace VanderWaal, American singer-songwriter

• 2012 » Ed Derwinski, American soldier and politician, 1st United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the Xunta of Galicia (b. 1922)
• 2013 » John Thomas, American high jumper (b. 1941)
• 2013 » Nagisa Oshima, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 2014 » Curtis Bray, American football player and coach (b. 1970)
• 2014 » John Dobson, Chinese-American astronomer and author (b. 1915)
• 2014 » Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (b. 1944)
• 2015 » Ervin Drake, American songwriter and composer (b. 1919)
• 2015 » Kim Fowley, American singer-songwriter, producer, and manager (b. 1939)
• 2015 » Ray Nagel, American football player and coach (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.
• March 16 » Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
• June 23 » The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
• July 17 » Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
• August 3 » A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
• September 24 » The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
• October 1 » A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in Bulgaria completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people.

The temperature on January 15, 2014 was between 2.4 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 6.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.