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• Aubrey Mavis Prince (87), Greenwood, Leflore County, Mississippi, United States of America
• Dokie Verdier (73), Geleen, Netherlands
• Anna Cornelia Smits (83), Alkmaar, N-H
• Cornelia Louisa Verdurmen (89)
• Eleonora Anette Aron (83), Paramaribo, Suriname
• Jacobus Gerardus (Koos) Don (67), Dirksland
• James Bijl (86), Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, United States
• Herman II baron de Woelmont (80), Heusy, Liège
• Gayle Loris Moen (69), Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
• Cornelis Wilhelmus (Kees) Struycken (85), Roosendaal, Noord Brabant, Nederland

• 1986 » Vladislav Gussev, Estonian footballer
• 1987 » Juan Joseph, American football player and coach († 2014)
• 1988 » Danielle Savre, American actress
• 1988 » Elvis Andrus, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1988 » Evan Ross, American actor
• 1988 » Lars Stindl, German football player
• 1988 » Wayne Simmonds, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » James Harden, American basketball player
• 1990 » Mateo Musacchio, Argentinian footballer
• 1991 » Jessica Diggins, American cross-country skier

• 2014 » Caroline Kellett, English journalist (b. 1960)
• 2014 » Chūsei Sone, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 2014 » Christian Bourquin, French lawyer and politician (b. 1954)
• 2014 » Peter Bacon Hales, American historian, photographer, and author (b. 1950)
• 2015 » Amelia Boynton Robinson, American activist (b. 1911)
• 2015 » Donald Eric Capps, American theologian, author, and academic (b. 1939)
• 2015 » Francisco San Diego, Filipino bishop (b. 1935)
• 2015 » P. J. Kavanagh, English poet and author (b. 1931)
• 2015 » Stefanos Manikas, Greek politician (b. 1952)
• 2017 » Tobe Hooper, American film director (b. 1943)

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

1. Emma
2. Sophie
3. Olivia
4. Charlotte
5. Nora
6. Mila
7. Eva
8. Sara
9. Feline
10. Zoë
11. Isa
12. Femke
13. Julia
14. Lola
15. Ella
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 8 » Joaquín Guzmán, widely regarded as the world's most powerful drug trafficker, is recaptured following his escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico.
• 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.
• September 30 » Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.
• October 9 » The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack on Myanmar security forces along the Bangladesh–Myanmar border.
• October 13 » The Maldives announces its decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations.
• December 19 » Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated while at an art exhibition in Ankara. The assassin, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by a Turkish guard.

The temperature on August 26, 2016 was between 17.6 °C and 26.2 °C and averaged 22.1 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.