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• Jacob Krijn Groen (73), Leiden, zkh
• Arie Owel (85), Leiden
• Jacob Krijn Groen (73), Leiden
• Jan Willem Burgwal (74)
• Freddy Cornelis Gerardus de Buijzer (87), Heemskerk
• Frederik Weijenberg (63), Leeuwarden
• Henri GINDROZ (84)
• Helen Marie WEISSINGER (90), Lancaster, Dallas, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Ida Marie Goudsblom (78), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ida Maria Goudsblom (79), Delft

• 1990 » Mark Swanepoel, South African rugby player
• 1991 » Blas Cantó, Spanish singer
• 1991 » Riho Iida, Japanese model and actress
• 1992 » Joseph Cramarossa, Canadian hockey player
• 1994 » Allie DeBerry, American model and actress
• 1994 » Waqa Blake, Fijian rugby league player
• 1995 » Yuta Nakamoto, Japanese singer and menber of South Korean boyband NCT
• 1996 » Rebecca Tunney, English gymnast
• 2002 » Julian Dennison, New Zealand actor
• 2002 » Lee Eunsang, South Korean singer and former member of X1

• 2013 » Ritva Arvelo, Finnish actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2013 » Ron Davies, Welsh photographer (b. 1921)
• 2014 » Brian Moore, Australian rugby league player (b. 1944)
• 2014 » Germain Gagnon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1942)
• 2014 » Gordy Soltau, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1925)
• 2014 » Jeff Robinson, American baseball player (b. 1961)
• 2014 » Mo Collins, American football player and coach (b. 1976)
• 2014 » Oscar Taveras, Dominican baseball player (b. 1992)
• 2014 » Senzo Meyiwa, South African footballer (b. 1987)
• 2014 » Vic Allen, English sociologist, economist, and historian (b. 1923)

• 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.
• April 21 » The American city of Flint, Michigan switches its water source to the Flint River, beginning the ongoing Flint water crisis which has caused lead poisoning in up to 12,000 people, and 15 deaths from Legionnaires disease, ultimately leading to criminal indictments against 15 people, five of whom have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
• June 23 » The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
• October 1 » A double bombing of an elementary school in Homs, Syria kills over 50 people.
• October 8 » Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies.
• October 27 » Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.
• December 4 » Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house" in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed.

The temperature on October 26, 2014 was between 9.5 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.