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• Bernardus Wilhelmus Antonius Verstegen (86), Stokkum
• Bastiaan (Bas) MUS (86), Gouda (NL/ZH)
• Antoine A comte d'Ursel (61), Hingene, Anvers
• Alice Knapen (89), Sint-Truiden, België
• Arthur Pudimaits (76), Praia Grande, São Paulo, Brasil
• Antonia Maria van Boxtel (88), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Elisabeth Kraanen (74), Amersfoort (UT, NLD)
• Edwin Eugene Lawrence Said (90), Norwest, New South Wales, Australia
• Christina Johanna van der Aar (92), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alice B Moolenaar (87), Menomonee Falls, Waukesha, Wisconsin

• 1963 » Paul O'Neill, American baseball player and sportscaster; five-time World Series champion
• 1967 » Ed Balls, British politician; Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1968 » Oumou Sangaré, Grammy Award-winning Malian Wassoulou musician
• 1971 » Sean Astin, American actor, director and producer
• 1974 » Dominic Raab, British politician; First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• 1981 » Park Ji-sung, South Korean footballer; the most successful Asian player with 19 career trophies
• 1982 » Flavia Pennetta, Italian tennis player; winner of the 2015 US Open
• 1988 » Tom Marshall, British photo colouriser and artist
• 1992 » Jorge Soler, Cuban baseball player
• 1999 » Gianluigi Donnarumma, Italian international footballer; youngest goalkeeper to play for Italy

• 1999 » Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 2001 » A. R. Ammons, American poet and critic (b. 1926)
• 2001 » Don Bradman, Australian international cricketer; holder of world record batting average (b. 1908)
• 2005 » Peter Benenson, English lawyer, founded Amnesty International (b. 1921)
• 2008 » Hans Raj Khanna, Indian judge and advocate; upholder of civil liberties (b. 1912)
• 2010 » Ihsan Dogramaci, Turkish pediatrician and academic (b. 1915)
• 2012 » Louisiana Red, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932)
• 2015 » Eugenie Clark, American biologist and academic; noted ichthyologist (b. 1922)
• 2015 » Harve Bennett, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1930)
• 2020 » Dmitry Yazov, last Marshal of the Soviet Union (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.
• May 9 » An Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft crashes near the Spanish city of Seville with three people on board killed.
• June 26 » Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occurred on what was dubbed Bloody Friday by international media. Upwards of 750 people were either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks.
• August 8 » Eight people are killed in a shooting in Harris County, Texas.
• October 10 » Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 102 and injure 400.
• October 14 » A suicide bomb attack in Pakistan kills at least seven people and injures 13 others.
• December 7 » The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.

The temperature on February 25, 2015 was between 1.6 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.