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• Cornelis van der Linden

• ADAM ALFONS DELEN (50), Wilrijk,, Antwerpen, België
• Catharina Wolmoeds Mathilda Geertruida Kemper (68), Roelofarendsveen
• Arie Ike HONCOOP (86), Lynden, Whatcom County, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Adri Bijkerk (72), Enschede, Nederland
• Dirk de Vries (86), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aukje de Vree (84), Hagestein, Utrecht, Nederland
• Ester
• Aartje Bos (81), Renswoude(UT)
• Delores Muller (85), Kearney, Buffalo, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten
• Bouma (91), Leeuwarden

• 1986 » Beau Champion, Australian rugby league player
• 1986 » Thomas Bourgin, French motorcycle racer († 2013)
• 1987 » Owen Franks, New Zealand rugby player
• 1987 » Tommaso Bellazzini, Italian footballer
• 1988 » Mallory Hagan, Miss America 2013
• 1989 » Liis Koger, Estonian painter and poet
• 1992 » Jeff Schlupp, German footballer
• 1994 » Reed Alexander, American actor
• 1996 » Bartosz Kapustka, Polish footballer
• 2002 » Finn Wolfhard, Canadian actor and musician

• 2013 » Chryssa, Greek-American sculptor (b. 1933)
• 2013 » Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and weapons designer, designed the AK-47 rifle (b. 1919)
• 2013 » Ricky Lawson, American drummer and composer (b. 1954)
• 2013 » Yusef Lateef, American saxophonist, composer, and educator (b. 1920)
• 2014 » Edward Greenspan, Canadian lawyer and author (b. 1944)
• 2014 » Robert V. Hogg, American statistician and academic (b. 1924)
• 2015 » Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1941)
• 2015 » Bülent Ulusu, Turkish admiral and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1923)
• 2015 » Don Howe, English footballer and manager (b. 1935)
• 2015 » Jean-Marie Pelt, French biologist, pharmacist, and academic (b. 1933)

• 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.
• March 27 » Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.
• May 9 » Russia stages its biggest ever military parade in Moscow's Red Square to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Victory Day.
• 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.
• August 17 » A bomb explodes near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, killing at least 19 people and injuring 123 others.
• 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 23, 2015 was between 7.3 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.