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• Henrietta Elaine Tilstra (77), Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
• Aaltje Johanna Alieda - Ali - Klumpers (97), hengelo
• Hendrik (Henry) Vijfvinkel (79), Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada
• Alexander Jacobus de Wilde (83), Den Helder
• Agatha Alida Rodewijk (96)
• Dirk van Peursem (93), Den Helder
• Geertje Johanna Buitenhuis (95), Boskoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Froukje Bontekoe (83), Netherlands
• Huibertje (Huipie) Bond (98), Lage Vuursche
• Georges Kuijpers (66), Oostende (B)

• 1988 » Ismaïl Aissati, Moroccan footballer
• 1989 » Moussa Sissoko, French footballer
• 1989 » Wang Hao, Chinese race walker
• 1990 » Godfrey Oboabona, Nigerian footballer
• 1991 » José Eduardo de Araújo, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Diego Schwartzman, Argentinian tennis player
• 1993 » Cameron Monaghan, American actor and model
• 1996 » Caeleb Dressel, American swimmer
• 1997 » Greyson Chance, American musician
• 1999 » Karen Chen, American figure skater

• 2012 » Princess Lalla Amina of Morocco (b. 1954)
• 2013 » David Rees, Welsh mathematician and academic (b. 1918)
• 2014 » Mario Oriani-Ambrosini, Italian-South African lawyer and politician (b. 1960)
• 2014 » Patrick Aziza, Nigerian general and politician, Governor of Kebbi State (b. 1947)
• 2014 » Peter Scholl-Latour, German journalist, author, and academic (b. 1924)
• 2014 » Vsevolod Nestayko, Ukrainian author (b. 1930)
• 2015 » Anna Kashfi, British actress (b. 1934)
• 2015 » Jacob Bekenstein, Mexican-American physicist, astronomer, and academic (b. 1947)
• 2015 » Mile Mrkšić, Serb general (b. 1947)
• 2015 » Shuja Khanzada, Pakistani colonel and politician (b. 1943)

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

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. Zita
16. Evi

• 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.
• April 21 » The American city of Flint, Michigan switches its water source to the Flint River, beginning the ongoing Flint water crisis which has caused lead poisoning in up to 12,000 people, and 15 deaths from Legionnaires disease, ultimately leading to criminal indictments against 15 people, five of whom have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
• May 11 » Fifteen people are killed and 46 injured in Kinshasa in a stampede caused by tear gas being thrown into soccer stands by police officers.
• 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.
• October 8 » Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies.
• December 10 » Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein was killed after the suppression of a demonstration by Israeli forces in the village (Turmus'ayya) in Ramallah.
• 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 August 16, 2014 was between 11.7 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (37%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.