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• Emilie Garrison*** (78), Burleson, Johnson County, Texas, United States of America
• Jan Haesen (35), Mol
• Bevan Herbert MURFETT (89), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Afra Maria (Afra) Reus (90)
• hendrik (hein) wulms (82), meijel
• Grietinus van Steenwijk (81), Eelde
• Adriana Scheij (93), Heusden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Grietje Westerhof (73), Sneek
• Gaby Melania Louisa Provenciael (75), AZ Imelda, Bonheiden
• Anna Aleida Hermanna (Adelheid) Deddens (52), Sellingerbeetse Sellingen Vlagtwedde Westerwolde Groningen Nederland

• 1988 » Indrek Kajupank, Estonian basketball player
• 1988 » Scott Laird, English footballer
• 1989 » Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, French footballer
• 1990 » Jordan Eberle, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Lee Jong-hyun, Korean guitarist
• 1990 » Stella Maxwell, New Zealand model
• 1993 » Jeremy Hawkins, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1993 » Tomáš Kalas, Czech international footballer
• 1996 » Birdy, English singer-songwriter
• 1997 » Ousmane Dembélé, French footballer

• 2010 » Besian Idrizaj, Austrian footballer (b. 1987)
• 2012 » Arno Lustiger, German historian and author (b. 1924)
• 2012 » Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist and essayist (b. 1928)
• 2012 » Zakaria Mohieddin, Egyptian soldier and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1918)
• 2013 » Henrique Rosa, Bissau-Guinean politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1946)
• 2014 » Jean-Luc Dehaene, French-Belgian politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1940)
• 2014 » Noribumi Suzuki, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1933)
• 2015 » Elisabeth Bing, German-American physical therapist and author (b. 1914)
• 2015 » Garo Yepremian, Cypriot-American football player (b. 1944)
• 2015 » Jackie Brookner, American sculptor and educator (b. 1945)

• 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 7 » Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, date back to more than 800,000 years ago, making them the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa.
• March 20 » Four suspected Taliban members attack the Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people.
• August 3 » A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
• 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.
• December 5 » Exploration Flight Test 1, the first flight test of Orion is launched.
• December 31 » A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.

The temperature on May 15, 2014 was between 4.4 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.