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• Glen Gower Banks (86), Palm Harbor, Pinellas Co., Florida, Verenigde Staten
• * Peter Klaasing (78), Middelburg
• Ginie Prummel (90), Veendam
• Bennie Luft (76)
• Clemente James Robles (81), Hengelo
• Hendrik Reijer Griffioen (75), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelis Maria Bakkum (70), Helferskirchen (Duitsland)
• Eleonora (Ellen) Hoornweg (66), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Cornelis Zijerveld (74), Sassenheim
• Helena Antonia Maria van Adrichem (93), Schiedam

• 1986 » Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress
• 1986 » Jonathan Orozco, Mexican footballer
• 1987 » Kieron Pollard, Trinidadian cricketer
• 1988 » Marcelo, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 » Eleftheria Eleftheriou, Greek Cypriot singer, musician, and actress
• 1990 » Florent Amodio, French figure skater
• 1992 » Volha Khudzenka, Belarusian kayaker
• 1995 » Irina Khromacheva, Russian tennis player
• 1995 » Luke Benward, American actor and singer
• 1997 » Morgan Lake, English athlete

• 2014 » Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-German actress and singer (b. 1925)
• 2014 » H. R. Giger, Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer (b. 1940)
• 2014 » Lorenzo Zambrano, Mexican businessman and philanthropist (b. 1944)
• 2014 » Marco Cé, Italian cardinal (b. 1925)
• 2014 » Sarat Pujari, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
• 2015 » Peter Gay, German-American historian, author, and academic (b. 1923)
• 2015 » William Zinsser American journalist and critic (b. 1922)
• 2016 » Mike Agostini, Trinidadian sprinter (b. 1935)
• 2017 » Mauno Koivisto, Finnish banker and politician, 9th President of Finland (b. 1923)
• 2018 » Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer (b. 1945)

1. Lucas
2. Benjamin
3. Tijn
4. Jan
5. Max
6. Levi
7. Mats
8. Boaz
9. Jesse
10. Alexander
11. Oscar
12. Jacob
13. Thijs
14. Liam
15. Ruben
16. Noah

1. Emma
2. Sophie
3. Olivia
4. Charlotte
5. Nora
6. Eva
7. Mila
8. Isa
9. Zoë
10. Feline
11. Femke
12. Sara
13. Julia
14. Ilse
15. Lola
16. Anna

• 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.
• January 3 » Following the fallout caused by the execution of Nimr al-Nimr, Iran ends its diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.
• January 16 » Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant.
• March 11 » At least 21 people are killed by flooding and mudslides in and around São Paulo, Brazil, following heavy rain.
• September 3 » The U.S. and China, together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions, both formally ratify the Paris global climate agreement.
• December 9 » At least 57 people are killed and a further 177 injured when two schoolgirl suicide bombers attack a market area in Madagali, Northeastern Nigeria in the Madagali suicide bombings.
• December 10 » Two explosions outside a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, kill 38 people and injure 166 others.

The temperature on May 12, 2016 was between 14.4 °C and 25.1 °C and averaged 20.2 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (88%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.