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• Fimke Hendriks Voolstra (88), Gorredijk, Opsterland, Fryslân, Nederland
• Abraham Oosterveen (77), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Evelyn Lucille Griebel (90), Marion, Turner Co., SD (Tieszen Memorial Home)
• Dirk (Dick) Klein (87), Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
• Elly Dutrieux (94), Australië
• Bouwe Eenling (94)
• Dineke Winterink (67), Zutphen
• Bettie Durks Oosterbos (80), Weidum, Littenseradiel, Fryslân, Nederland
• Elly Jansen (79), Rütenbrock, Haren (Ems), Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Elly Janssen (79), Rütenbrock, Haren (Ems)

• 1991 » Conor Daly, American race car driver
• 1992 » Daiamami Genki, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1992 » Jesse Lingard, English footballer
• 1996 » Jenifer Brening, German singer
• 1996 » Oleksandr Zinchenko, Ukrainian footballer
• 1997 » Magdalena Fręch, Polish tennis player
• 1997 » Maude Apatow, American actress
• 1997 » Stefania LaVie Owen, New Zealand-American actress
• 1997 » Zach Banks, American race car driver
• 1998 » Chandler Canterbury, American actor

• 2013 » Harold Camping, American evangelist, author, radio host (b. 1921)
• 2013 » Joan Fontaine, British-American actress (b. 1917)
• 2014 » Donald Metcalf, Australian physiologist and immunologist (b. 1929)
• 2014 » Fausto Zapata, Mexican journalist, lawyer, and politician, Governor of San Luis Potosí (b. 1940)
• 2015 » Harry Zvi Tabor, English-Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1917)
• 2016 » Craig Sager, American sports journalist (b. 1951)
• 2017 » Calestous Juma, academic (b. 1953)
• 2017 » Heinz Wolff, scientist and TV presenter (b. 1928)
• 2018 » Eryue He, Chinese historical fiction writer (b.1945)
• 2018 » Girma Wolde-Giorgis, President of Ethiopia (b. 1924)

• 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 11 » At least 21 people are killed by flooding and mudslides in and around São Paulo, Brazil, following heavy rain.
• May 23 » Eight bombings were carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Jableh and Tartus, coastline cities in Syria. One hundred eighty-four people were killed and at least 200 people injured.
• June 23 » The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.
• August 21 » The closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, takes place.
• September 29 » Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducts "surgical strikes" against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
• 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.

The temperature on December 15, 2016 was between 5.2 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.