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• Anna (Anneke) Rienksma (93), Bergum
• Delmar D. "Del" Menken (78), Rapid City, Pennington Co., SD
• Anita ten Broek (50)
• Esther Mechtilda Theresia van der Plas (64), Epe, Netherlands
• Barbara McFARLANE (85), Portsmouth New Hampshire U.S.A
• Cornelia van den Broek (97), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aart van Kempen (93), Sidney, Australie
• Claus Erich Wegner (57), Venn
• Adrianus gerardus van der Weijden (90), Noordwijk
• Alie Garretsen (86), Vorden

• 1979 » Steve Montador, Canadian ice hockey player († 2015)
• 1981 » Cristian Zaccardo, Italian footballer
• 1982 » Philip Humber, American baseball player
• 1983 » Steven Yeun, American actor
• 1985 » Tom Sturridge, English actor
• 1988 » Perri Shakes-Drayton, English sprinter and hurdler
• 1989 » Mark Ingram Jr., American football player
• 1989 » Tamannaah, South Indian actress
• 1991 » Riccardo Saponara, Italian footballer
• 1995 » Ronnie Bassett Jr., American race car driver

• 2006 » Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmen engineer and politician, 1st President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940)
• 2009 » Christos Lambrakis, Greek journalist and businessman (b. 1934)
• 2009 » Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2010 » Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
• 2013 » Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1929)
• 2013 » John Eisenhower, American historian, general, and diplomat, 45th United States Ambassador to Belgium (b. 1922)
• 2014 » Billie Whitelaw, English actress (b. 1932)
• 2014 » Sitor Situmorang, Indonesian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 2014 » Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1934)
• 2017 » Bruce McCandless II, US astronaut who conducted the first untethered spacewalk (b. 1937)

• 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 11 » A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province in eastern Algeria, killing 77 people.
• 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.
• March 16 » Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
• 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.
• September 27 » The eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan occurs.
• 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

The temperature on December 21, 2014 was between 5.2 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.