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• Eileen Lucille WADHAM (89), Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Dirk Jan Holtland (92), Kampen, Nederland
• Catharina HENDRIKS (75), Bilzen, 3740, Bilzen-Hoeselt, Limburg, België
• Adriana Petronella (Annie) van Beurden (89)
• Elizabeth Cornelia VanVossen (91), Milwaukee Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Kruk (88), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Dirkje de Graaf (91), Bruchem
• ANNA MARIA IDA THEODORA FELLER (63), 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH
• Catharina Henrica (Toos) Hekkens (89)
• Brenda SMITH (79), Bristol, Somerset

• 1993 » El Hadji Ba, French footballer
• 1993 » Joshua Coyne, American violinist and composer
• 1994 » Daria Gavrilova, Russian-Australian tennis player
• 1994 » Kyle Schwarber, American baseball player
• 1996 » Emmanuel Mudiay, Congolese basketball player
• 1996 » Taylor Hill, American model
• 1997 » Milena Venega, Cuban rower
• 1998 » Bo Bichette, American baseball player
• 1999 » Madison Beer, American singer, songwriter and producer.
• 2007 » Roman Griffin Davis, British actor, second youngest Golden Globe recipient.

• 2012 » Paul Haines, New Zealand-Australian author (b. 1970)
• 2013 » Duane Gish, American biochemist and academic (b. 1921)
• 2013 » Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
• 2013 » Paul Bearer, American wrestler and manager (b. 1954)
• 2014 » Ailsa McKay, Scottish economist and academic (b. 1963)
• 2014 » Geoff Edwards, American actor and game show host (b. 1931)
• 2014 » Leopoldo María Panero, Spanish poet and translator (b. 1948)
• 2014 » Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1931)
• 2015 » Edward Egan, American cardinal (b. 1932)
• 2015 » Vlada Divljan, Serbian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958)

• 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 8 » Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
• May 5 » Twenty-two people die after two boats carrying refugees collide in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece.
• May 24 » A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.
• 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.
• 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.
• December 15 » A gunman takes 18 hostages inside a café in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning.

The temperature on March 5, 2014 was between -0.5 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.