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• Fay Elizabeth ? (76)
• Froukje Niks (88), Hardenberg
• Elisabeth Maria Johanna Hesp (90)
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Gabriël (87), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Dorothy Irene MacDonald (84)
• Bertha Hunnekens (90), Venlo
• Carol Naylor (85), Salt Lake County, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Smith Hughes (84), Totowa, Passaic Co., New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Albertje Dol (76), Klazienaveen, Emmen
• Douglas Wade COOK

• 1990 » Brooks Koepka, American golfer
• 1991 » Samuel Seo, South Korean musician
• 1992 » Aaron Whitchurch, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Ivan Bukavshin, Russian chess player († 2016)
• 1996 » Alex Iwobi, Nigerian football player
• 1996 » Domantas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1996 » Mary Cain, American runner
• 1997 » Desiigner, American rapper
• 1997 » Dwayne Haskins, American football player
• 1997 » Ivana Jorović, Serbian tennis player

• 2013 » Herbert Blau, American engineer and academic (b. 1926)
• 2013 » Joe Astroth, American baseball player (b. 1922)
• 2014 » Francisco Icaza, Mexican painter (b. 1930)
• 2014 » Gary Becker, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1930)
• 2014 » Jim Oberstar, American educator and politician (b. 1934)
• 2015 » Danny Jones, Welsh rugby player (b. 1986)
• 2015 » Revaz Chkheidze, Georgian director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2015 » Warren Smith, American golfer and coach (b. 1915)
• 2016 » Ian Deans, Canadian politician (b. 1937)
• 2016 » Jadranka Stojaković, Yugoslav singer-songwriter (b. 1950)

• 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.
• May 18 » At least 78 people die in a landslide caused by heavy rains in the Colombian town of Salgar.
• July 16 » Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• October 26 » A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in northeastern Afghanistan, killing 398 people and leaving 2,536 people injured.
• December 6 » 2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election: For the first time in 17 years, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela loses its majority in parliament.
• December 31 » A fire broke out at the Downtown Address Hotel in Downtown Dubai, United Arab Emirates located near the Burj Khalifa two hours before the fireworks display was due to commence. Sixteen injuries were reported; one had a heart attack, another suffered a major injury, and fourteen others with minor injuries.

The temperature on May 3, 2015 was between 6.9 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.