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• Arthur Neher (94), Noordwijkerhout
• Cornelis Fock (75), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Maria Rip (66)
• Cornelis Westerhof (75)
• Curnali Kocak (72), Castricum
• Aaffien Ouwerkerk (59)
• Catharinus Pieter Passenier (92), Middelburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Godefridus Theodorus van der Lugt (86), Bennebroek
• Beatrijs Froeling (75), Eijsden, Netherlands
• Anna Wilhelmina Loggers (92), De Bilt

• 1991 » Jeong Jinwoon, South Korean actor and singer
• 1992 » María Teresa Torró Flor, Spanish tennis player
• 1992 » Sunmi, South Korean singer
• 1993 » Huang Zitao, Chinese singer and rapper
• 1993 » Isyana Sarasvati, Indonesian singer
• 1993 » Owain Doull, Welsh track cyclist
• 1996 » Cherprang Areekul, Thai singer
• 1996 » Julian Brandt, German footballer
• 1996 » Schuyler Bailar, American swimmer
• 2015 » Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, British royal, and fourth in line to the British throne

• 2013 » Charles Banks Wilson, American painter and illustrator (b. 1918)
• 2013 » Dvora Omer, Israeli author and educator (b. 1932)
• 2013 » Ernie Field, English boxer (b. 1943)
• 2013 » Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (b. 1980)
• 2013 » Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1964)
• 2013 » Joseph P. McFadden, American bishop (b. 1947)
• 2014 » Žarko Petan, Slovenian director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2014 » Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (b. 1918)
• 2014 » Tomás Balduino, Brazilian bishop (b. 1922)
• 2015 » Stuart Archer, English colonel and architect (b. 1915)

• 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 18 » The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.
• June 23 » The last of Syria's declared chemical weapons are shipped out for destruction.
• October 1 » A double bombing of an elementary school in Homs, Syria kills over 50 people.
• December 4 » Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house" in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed.
• 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.
• December 31 » A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.

The temperature on May 2, 2014 was between 6.4 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.