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• Dorothy Dawkins Mobley
• Adriana Cornelia Hogebrug (83), Noordwijkerhout
• Donald E. RUS (69), Clinton, Iowa
• Anna (Annie) VAN DEN BERGH (97), Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Netherlands
• Daniël van Egmond (93), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Geertruida van Oostveen (93)
• Daniël Daniëlsz van Egmond│Vermae (93), Leiden
• Denise Van de Velde (95), Sint Niklaas
• Cornelia Hendrika Meijer (90)
• Dorothy Mae Keelor (87), Sacramento County, California, Verenigde Staten

• 1989 » Mose Masoe, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1989 » Rain Raadik, Estonian basketball player
• 1989 » Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer
• 1990 » Charlie Gubb, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 » Fabian Giefer, German footballer
• 1990 » Guido Pella, Argentine tennis player
• 1990 » Katrina Hart, English runner
• 1991 » Abigail Raye, Canadian field hockey player
• 1991 » Adil Omar, Pakistani rapper and music producer
• 1991 » Johanna Konta, Australian-English tennis player

• 2012 » Gideon Ezra, Israeli geographer and politician, Israeli Minister in the Prime Minister's Office (b. 1937)
• 2013 » Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentine general and politician, 42nd President of Argentina (b. 1925)
• 2013 » Ken Venturi, American golfer and sportscaster (b. 1931)
• 2013 » Peter Schulz, German politician, Mayor of Hamburg (b. 1930)
• 2013 » Philippe Gaumont, French cyclist (b. 1973)
• 2014 » C. P. Krishnan Nair, Indian businessman, founded The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts (b. 1922)
• 2014 » Douangchay Phichit, Laotian politician (b. 1944)
• 2014 » Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929)
• 2014 » Thongbanh Sengaphone, Laotian politician (b. 1953)
• 2017 » Todor Veselinović, Serbian football player and manager (b. 1930)

• 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 4 » TransAsia Airways Flight 235 with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after take-off, killing 43 people.
• February 24 » A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California following a collision with a truck, leaving more than 30 injured.
• 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.
• July 16 » Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• October 29 » China announces the end of One-child policy after 35 years.
• November 13 » A set of coordinated terror attacks in Paris, including multiple shootings, explosions, and a hostage crisis in the 10th and 11th arrondissements kill 130 people, seven attackers, and injured 368 others, with at least 80 critically wounded.

The temperature on May 17, 2015 was between 6.8 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.