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• Jop Wesenbeek, Eindhoven
• Joas de Lange († 2015)

• Eke Taekes Boersma (97), Bitgum, Menameradiel, Fryslân, Nederland
• Alida Cornelia Vertegaal (92), Bergen,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Dirk Schoen (93), Zaandam (NH, NLD)
• Agatha Stephen (93), La Romaine, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
• Frederik Hendrik Swarts (68)
• Adrianus Theodorus Sol (82)
• Elisabeth Theresia Kok (77), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Eugene Brice "Gene" Shiplet (77)
• Ernest Meindersma (89), Vancouver, Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Dick Groeneveld (95), Leiden, Leiden, South Holland, The Netherlands

• 1991 » Conor Daly, American race car driver
• 1992 » Daiamami Genki, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1992 » Jesse Lingard, English footballer
• 1996 » Jenifer Brening, German singer
• 1996 » Oleksandr Zinchenko, Ukrainian footballer
• 1997 » Magdalena Fręch, Polish tennis player
• 1997 » Maude Apatow, American actress
• 1997 » Stefania LaVie Owen, New Zealand-American actress
• 1997 » Zach Banks, American race car driver
• 1998 » Chandler Canterbury, American actor

• 2012 » Owoye Andrew Azazi, Nigerian general (b. 1952)
• 2013 » Dyron Nix, American basketball player (b. 1967)
• 2013 » Harold Camping, American evangelist, author, radio host (b. 1921)
• 2013 » Joan Fontaine, British-American actress (b. 1917)
• 2014 » Donald Metcalf, Australian physiologist and immunologist (b. 1929)
• 2014 » Fausto Zapata, Mexican journalist, lawyer, and politician, Governor of San Luis Potosí (b. 1940)
• 2015 » Harry Zvi Tabor, English-Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1917)
• 2016 » Craig Sager, American sports journalist (b. 1951)
• 2017 » Calestous Juma, academic (b. 1953)
• 2017 » Heinz Wolff, scientist and TV presenter (b. 1928)

• 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.
• February 20 » Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.
• February 24 » A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California following a collision with a truck, leaving more than 30 injured.
• June 5 » An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.0 struck Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia killing 18 people, including hikers and mountain guides on Mount Kinabalu, after mass landslides that occurred during the earthquake. This is the strongest earthquake to strike Malaysia since 1975.
• July 20 » The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades.
• August 12 » At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure nearly 800 more in Tianjin, China.
• November 12 » Two suicide bombers detonated explosives in Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, killing 43 people and injuring over 200 others.

The temperature on December 15, 2015 was between 4.8 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (50%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.