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• Jaela Van Der Molen, Onbekend

• Annie van Doleweerd (71), Berghem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana (Atty) Hijstek (85), Hilversum
• Els de Jong (68), Hoensbroek
• Christien Snouck Hurgronje (100), Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• A E Verboket (88), Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ellengard Götze (70), Frechen
• Abraham Klaas Nicolai (84), Beilen
• Adrianus Cornelis Ottevanger (72), Krommenie (noord-holland)
• Barbara Johanna Theresia Krijnen (88), Culemborg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Daniël Gerardus Gijsbertus (Daan) Wijnands (94), Landgraaf, Nederland

• 1984 » Nikolaos Karabelas, Greek footballer
• 1990 » JoJo, American singer and actress
• 1991 » Fabian Schär, Swiss footballer
• 1991 » Jillian Rose Reed, American actress
• 1991 » Jorginho, Brazilian footballer
• 1991 » Rachael Boyle, Scottish footballer
• 1992 » Ksenia Makarova, Russian-American figure skater
• 1993 » Robeisy Ramírez, Cuban boxer
• 1997 » De'Aaron Fox, American basketball player
• 1997 » Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer

• 2009 » Brittany Murphy, American actress (b. 1977)
• 2010 » James Robert Mann, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1920)
• 2010 » K. P. Ratnam, Sri Lankan academic and politician (b. 1914)
• 2011 » Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (b. 1929)
• 2012 » Stan Charlton, English footballer and manager (b. 1929)
• 2012 » Victor Merzhanov, Russian pianist and educator (b. 1919)
• 2013 » Pyotr Bolotnikov, Russian runner (b. 1930)
• 2014 » John Freeman, English lawyer, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States (b. 1915)
• 2014 » Per-Ingvar Brånemark, Swedish surgeon and academic (b. 1929)

• 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.
• April 2 » A spree shooting occurs at the Fort Hood army base in Texas, with four dead, including the gunman, and 16 others injured.
• August 20 » Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.
• September 16 » The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian–Kurdish forces.
• 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
• December 5 » Exploration Flight Test 1, the first flight test of Orion is launched.

The temperature on December 20, 2014 was between 5.6 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.