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• Apolonia Romeyn (77), Niton Junction, AB, Canada
• Francisca Maria Antonia (Cis) van Zon (93)
• Albert Beuving (81), Almelo
• Fenna Jentje Willering (92), Schipborg, Zuidlaren
• Adrianus Johannes Maria Oerlemans (75), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andries Luurt Willem Lesterhuis (75), Geldrop,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• David Apon (86), Paramaribo
• Gerrit van Vliet (68), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elvira Magdalena Spahn (88)
• Christina Hendrika van de Ven (89)

• 1989 » Blake Griffin, American basketball player
• 1989 » Jung So-min, South Korean actress
• 1990 » Andre Young, American basketball player
• 1991 » Reggie Bullock, American basketball player
• 1991 » Wolfgang Van Halen, American bassist
• 1993 » George Ford, English rugby union player
• 1993 » Marine Lorphelin, Miss France
• 1994 » Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player
• 1995 » Inga Janulevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater
• 1997 » Florian Neuhaus, German football player

• 2014 » Alexander Pochinok, Russian economist and politician (b. 1958)
• 2014 » Donald Crothers, American chemist and academic (b. 1937)
• 2014 » Gary Bettenhausen, American race car driver (b. 1941)
• 2014 » Steve Moore, English author and illustrator (b. 1949)
• 2014 » Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy, Sierra Leonean author, poet, and playwright (b. 1936)
• 2015 » Don Robertson, American pianist and composer (b. 1922)
• 2015 » Jack Haley, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1964)
• 2016 » Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American mathematician and poet (b. 1924)
• 2016 » Frank Sinatra Jr., American singer and actor (b. 1944)
• 2017 » Lewis Rowland, American neurologist (b. 1925)

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• 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 17.0 million citizens.
• March 16 » A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 54.
• April 22 » The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.
• July 23 » Kabul twin bombing occurred in the vicinity of Deh Mazang when protesters, mostly from the Shiite Hazara minority, were marching against route changing of the TUTAP power project. At least 80 people were killed and 260 were injured.
• September 19 » In the wake of a manhunt, the suspect in a series of bombings in New York and New Jersey is apprehended after a shootout with police.
• November 8 » Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the BJP party led NDA government, publicly announced the withdrawal of ₹500 and ₹1000 denomination banknotes only a few hours before the implementation/imposition of diktat, i.e. from midnight, starting of November 9 (9-11 as per Indian date recordings), from the Indian economy, without popular consent, rendering 86% of Indian currency in circulation invalid.
• December 7 » Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661, a domestic passenger flight from Chitral to Islamabad, operated by ATR-42-500 crashes near Havelian, killing all 47 on board.

The temperature on March 16, 2016 was between -0.2 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (80%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.