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• arnoldina Hendrika Hendriks (82), Haaksbergen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria Roeloffzen (83), Ootmarsum
• Anna Schakel (72), Minnertsga, Het Bildt, Fryslân, Nederland
• Esther Viola Hoppe (93), Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Bertus Coenradus de Wolf (90), Winschoten, Nederland
• Antonius Joseph van der Linden (62), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Joseph van der Linden (62), Den Haag
• Bram Hartog (77)
• Caroline Nicola Jones (46), Norwich Norfolk
• Elfriede Leola de Vlugt (80)

• 1992 » Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player († 2013)
• 1992 » Chanel Mata'utia, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 » Paige, English wrestler
• 1993 » Ederson Moraes, Brazilian footballer
• 1993 » Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer
• 1994 » Phoebe Bridgers, American singer/songwriter
• 1995 » Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1995 » Gracie Gold, American figure skater
• 1996 » Jake Virtanen, Canadian ice hockey player
• 2000 » Lil Pump, American rapper and songwriter

• 2013 » Odilia Dank, American educator and politician (b. 1938)
• 2014 » Børre Knudsen, Norwegian minister and activist (b. 1937)
• 2014 » Miodrag Pavlović, Serbian poet and critic (b. 1928)
• 2014 » Pierre Vassiliu, French singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
• 2014 » Sophie Masloff, American civil servant and politician, 56th Mayor of Pittsburgh (b. 1917)
• 2014 » Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and author (b. 1921)
• 2015 » Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, German businessman (b. 1933)
• 2015 » László Paskai, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1927)
• 2015 » Yvonne Craig, American ballet dancer and actress (b. 1937)
• 2016 » Arthur Hiller, Canadian actor, director, and producer (b. 1923)

• 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 » Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shooting twelve people execution style, and wounding eleven others.
• January 15 » The Swiss National Bank abandons the cap on the franc's value relative to the euro, causing turmoil in international financial markets
• June 3 » An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, killing more than 200 people.
• August 26 » Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled former coworker while conducting a live report in Moneta, Virginia.
• October 3 » Forty-two are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike.
• 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 August 17, 2015 was between 12.9 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 13.6 mm of rain during 19.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.