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• Clara Mae Williams (87), Rock Hill, York County, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Berend Schonewille (67), Schoonebeek, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Clasina Adriana Snelder (82), Knegsel
• Aaltje Otten (86), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Elisabeth Maria Lautenbach (67), Hoorn
• Catharina - Käthe Lennerts (93), Landgraaf, LI, Netherlands
• Ferdinand Bleijenberg (77), Nunspeet
• Florus Meijdam (89), Leerdam
• dorothea gertruda (door) huijs (87), venlo (ziekenhuis)
• Ervyn Lionel Hoffrichter (93), Loxton, Waikerie, South Australia, Australia

• 1992 » Joshua Ingram, Canadian drummer and percussionist
• 1992 » Quinton de Kock, South African cricketer
• 1993 » Patricia Kú Flores, Peruvian tennis player
• 1994 » Lloyd Perrett, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1994 » Nat Wolff, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player and actor
• 1996 » Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Russian figure skater
• 1997 » Naiktha Bains, British-Australian tennis player
• 1997 » Shoma Uno, Japanese figure skater
• 1998 » Jasmine Armfield, English actress
• 1998 » Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer

• 2014 » Dieter Grau, German-American scientist and engineer (b. 1913)
• 2014 » Ivan Vekić, Croatian colonel, lawyer, and politician, Croatian Minister of the Interior (b. 1938)
• 2014 » Lowell Steward, American captain (b. 1919)
• 2014 » Oleh Lysheha, Ukrainian poet and playwright (b. 1949)
• 2014 » Richard C. Hottelet, American journalist (b. 1917)
• 2015 » Hal Brown, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
• 2015 » Michael Wyschogrod, German-American philosopher and theologian (b. 1928)
• 2015 » Osamu Hayaishi, American-Japanese biochemist and academic (b. 1920)
• 2016 » Benjamin A. Gilman, American soldier and politician (b. 1922)
• 2016 » Henry Heimlich, American doctor (b. 1920)

• 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.
• April 2 » Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.
• August 5 » The Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste water spill releases three million gallons of heavy metal toxin tailings and waste water into the Animas River in Colorado.
• August 26 » Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled former coworker while conducting a live report in Moneta, Virginia.
• September 24 » At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
• October 1 » A gunman kills nine people at a community college in Oregon.
• November 4 » A cargo plane crashes shortly after takeoff from Juba International Airport in Juba, South Sudan, killing at least 37 people.

The temperature on December 17, 2015 was between 12.4 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (61%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.