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• Cornelis Bijl (89)
• Brenda Louise Riggs ***** (71), Rusk, Cherokee, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Amelia Lois Douglas (96), Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus van der Luijt (87), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Kers (83), Vaassen,Gemeente Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aagje Bullee (91), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Wilhelmina van Berkum (71), Badhoevedorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Krijn Jongejan (87), Scheveningen
• Albert Kers (83), Vaassen
• Cornelis Pluister (94), Heerhugowaard

• 1989 » Michaëlla Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
• 1989 » Michael Beasley, American basketball player
• 1989 » Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress
• 1989 » Yana Maksimava, Belarusian heptathlete
• 1990 » Justin Blackmon, American football player
• 1991 » Álvaro Soler, Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1991 » Edon Hasani, Albanian football player
• 1992 » Joseph Parker, Samoan heavyweight boxer
• 1993 » Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English long jumper and heptathlete
• 1999 » Shannon Tavarez, American actress († 2010)

• 2014 » Amiri Baraka, American poet, playwright, and academic (b. 1934)
• 2014 » Dale T. Mortensen, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1939)
• 2014 » Josep Maria Castellet, Spanish poet and critic (b. 1926)
• 2014 » Paul du Toit, South African painter and sculptor (b. 1965)
• 2015 » Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, Malaysian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Sarawak (b. 1928)
• 2015 » Bud Paxson, American broadcaster and businessman, founded the Home Shopping Network and Pax TV (b. 1935)
• 2015 » Józef Oleksy, Polish economist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1946)
• 2015 » Michel Jeury, French author (b. 1934)
• 2015 » Robert V. Keeley, Lebanese-American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Greece (b. 1929)
• 2015 » Roy Tarpley, American basketball player (b. 1964)

• 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 12 » Government raids kill 143 Boko Haram fighters in Kolofata, Cameroon.
• June 27 » Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 others, 199 critically.
• July 27 » At least seven people are killed and many injured after gunmen attack an Indian police station in Punjab.
• September 9 » Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
• September 14 » The first observation of gravitational waves was made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
• November 5 » An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing.

The temperature on January 9, 2015 was between 5.8 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 8.5 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.