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• Dirk Jan de Groot (83), Hengelo
• Cornelia Johanna Andrea van Son (93)
• Cornelis KEIJZER (82)
• Cornelia (Cox) van Hoeven (79), Wijk en Aalburg
• Catharina Elisabeth Asberg (95), Voorburg
• Cornelis Lambertus Werts (88), Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Marinus van Mierlo (93), Roosendaal
• Albert Wekema (84), Groningen (Grunn), Groningen, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Louwen (83), Alkmaar
• Christopher August Stolz (49), Edgewood, Kenton, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten

• 1982 » Francisco Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1983 » Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
• 1985 » Lewis Hamilton, English racing driver
• 1986 » Wayne Routledge, English footballer winger
• 1987 » Davide Astori, Italian footballer († 2018)
• 1987 » Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
• 1987 » Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer
• 1990 » Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
• 1991 » Caster Semenya, South African sprinter
• 1991 » Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer

• 2014 » Run Run Shaw, Chinese-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist, founded Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB (b. 1907)
• 2015 » Georges Wolinski, Tunisian-French cartoonist (b. 1934)
• 2015 » Mompati Merafhe, Botswana general and politician, Vice-President of Botswana (b. 1936)
• 2015 » Rod Taylor, Australian-American actor and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 2016 » Bill Foster, American basketball player and coach (b. 1929)
• 2016 » John Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1947)
• 2016 » Judith Kaye, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1938)
• 2016 » Kitty Kallen, American singer (b. 1921)
• 2016 » Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Home Affairs (b. 1936)
• 2017 » Mário Soares, Portuguese politician; 16th President of Portugal (b. 1924)

• 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 16.9 million citizens.
• January 7 » A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.
• February 17 » Eighteen people are killed and 78 injured in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Haiti.
• May 19 » The Refugio oil spill deposited 142,800 U.S. gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto an area in California considered one of the most biologically diverse coastlines of the west coast.
• June 17 » Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
• July 23 » NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler.
• October 26 » A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in northeastern Afghanistan, killing 398 people and leaving 2,536 people injured.

The temperature on January 7, 2015 was between 2.4 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.