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• Dirkje Treur (93)
• Ans Kurvers (78), Panningen
• Elba Neiva de Lucena (88), Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
• George Franklin Taylor (84), Bowling Green, Warren, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Edward Sheffield (77), Mitchell, Davison County, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten van Amerika
• Gerrit Jan Aalderink (90), Vriezenveen, Overijssel, Nederland, Nederland
• Catharina Josephina Nicolaas (Toos) DE RUYTER (85), Eindhoven(N-Br.)
• Alberta Helena Carlow (90), Old Town, Penobscot, Maine, Verenigde Staten
• Gerda Wesselina Nieuwenhuis (93), Hengelo
• Gilbert Edmund GOOCH (96), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America

• 1985 » Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model
• 1985 » Rooney Mara, American actress
• 1986 » Romain Grosjean, French race car driver
• 1988 » Takahiro Moriuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1989 » Avi Kaplan, singer and songwriter
• 1989 » Paraskevi Papachristou, Greek triple jumper
• 1990 » Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer
• 1992 » Lachlan Maranta, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1994 » Alanna Goldie, Canadian fencer
• 1996 » Lorna Fitzgerald, British actress

• 2013 » Bi Kidude, Tanzanian Taarab singer (b. ≈1910)
• 2013 » Carlos Graça, São Toméan politician, Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (b. 1931)
• 2013 » V. S. Ramadevi, Indian politician, 13th Governor of Karnataka (b. 1934)
• 2013 » Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass player and songwriter (b. 1957)
• 2014 » Bernat Klein, Serbian-Scottish fashion designer and painter (b. 1922)
• 2014 » Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
• 2014 » Karpal Singh, Malaysian lawyer and politician (b. 1940)
• 2014 » Wojciech Leśnikowski, Polish–American architect and academic (b. 1938)
• 2015 » Robert P. Griffin, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1923)
• 2015 » Scotty Probasco, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1928)

1. Lucas
2. Daan
3. Daley
4. Boaz
5. Tim
6. Gijs
7. Liam
8. Milan
9. Thomas
10. Jan
11. Ruben
12. Levi
13. Julian
14. Hugo
15. Sam
16. Bram

1. Sophie
2. Eva
3. Emma
4. Lynn
5. Anna
6. Isa
7. Noa
8. Mila
9. Roos
10. Sara
11. Cato
12. Elise
13. Mia
14. Zoë
15. Fenna
16. Zita

• 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.
• May 24 » A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.
• August 9 » Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city.
• 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.
• October 22 » Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
• December 5 » Exploration Flight Test 1, the first flight test of Orion is launched.

The temperature on April 17, 2014 was between 2.4 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.