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• Erik Deforche (81), Izegem, België
• Eldon Jay Myers (69), Covenant Medical Center, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa
• Andre Verschoot (76), Moorslede
• Clarence J. (Shorty) WIERSEMA (72), Clinton Clinton County Iowa U.S.A
• Evertdina Brink (90)
• Anna de Groot (84), Smilde
• Fernand BOUSMANNE (66), Ans,Province de Liège,Walloon Region,BELGIQUE
• Baron Jan Willem Fredrik van Wassenaer (81), Den Haag
• Annigje Trientien Pepping (83), Gasselternijveen, Gemeente Aa en Hunze, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albert Platje (48), Usquert, Groningen, Nederland

• 1988 » Stefanos Athanasiadis, Greek footballer
• 1990 » Brigetta Barrett, American high jumper
• 1990 » Marcus Jordan, American basketball player
• 1990 » Ryo Miyake, Japanese fencer
• 1991 » Lara Michel, Swiss tennis player
• 1991 » Louis Tomlinson, English singer-songwriter
• 1991 » Wasim Tareen, Pakistani footballer
• 1994 » Fa'amanu Brown, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1994 » Matt Frawley, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 » Miguel Castro, Dominican baseball player

• 2013 » Allan McKeown, English-American screenwriter and producer (b. 1946)
• 2013 » Frédéric Back, German-Canadian director, animator, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 2013 » Ian Barbour, Chinese-American author and scholar (b. 1923)
• 2013 » John M. Goldman, English haematologist and oncologist (b. 1938)
• 2014 » Buddy DeFranco, American clarinet player (b. 1923)
• 2014 » Edward Greenspan, Canadian lawyer and author (b. 1944)
• 2014 » Herbert Harris, American lawyer and politician (b. 1926)
• 2014 » Krzysztof Krauze, Polish director and screenwriter (b. 1953)
• 2015 » Letty Jimenez Magsanoc, Filipino journalist (b. 1941)
• 2015 » Turid Birkeland, Norwegian businesswoman and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture (b. 1962)

• 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 20 » Dozens of Euromaidan anti-government protesters died in Ukraine's capital Kiev, many reportedly killed by snipers.
• May 5 » Twenty-two people die after two boats carrying refugees collide in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece.
• May 23 » Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 14 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.
• July 23 » TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Phengu Airport. 48 of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.
• August 10 » Forty people are killed when Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 crashes at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport.
• 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.

The temperature on December 24, 2014 was between 6.1 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 9.0 mm of rain during 7.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.