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• Antoon Jozef Roza (Toon) Vanvinckenroye (74), Hasselt, België
• Albertien Victorie (70), Ruinen
• Bettie Ann Lautenschlaeger (76), Lancaster, California, United States
• Dirk Theodorus Rutgers (94)
• Bernice Dorthea DeYoung DeBlaey (100), Sheboygan, Wisconsin
• Aleida Maria van Kruijsbergen- (91), Tiel, Nederland
• Egbertje Hollander (90), Klazienaveen, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bernardina Costa Barros (87), Guarei, São Paulo, Brasil
• Gerritdina van der Linde (87), ommen
• Adelin VAN RENTERGHEM (78), Knesselare, 9910, België

• 1986 » Beau Champion, Australian rugby league player
• 1986 » Thomas Bourgin, French motorcycle racer († 2013)
• 1987 » Owen Franks, New Zealand rugby player
• 1987 » Tommaso Bellazzini, Italian footballer
• 1988 » Mallory Hagan, Miss America 2013
• 1989 » Liis Koger, Estonian painter and poet
• 1992 » Jeff Schlupp, German footballer
• 1994 » Reed Alexander, American actor
• 1996 » Bartosz Kapustka, Polish footballer
• 2002 » Finn Wolfhard, Canadian actor and musician

• 2013 » Chryssa, Greek-American sculptor (b. 1933)
• 2013 » Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and weapons designer, designed the AK-47 rifle (b. 1919)
• 2013 » Yusef Lateef, American saxophonist, composer, and educator (b. 1920)
• 2014 » Edward Greenspan, Canadian lawyer and author (b. 1944)
• 2014 » Robert V. Hogg, American statistician and academic (b. 1924)
• 2015 » Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1941)
• 2015 » Bülent Ulusu, Turkish admiral and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1923)
• 2015 » Don Howe, English footballer and manager (b. 1935)
• 2015 » Jean-Marie Pelt, French biologist, pharmacist, and academic (b. 1933)
• 2017 » Maurice Hayes, Irish educator and politician (b. 1927)

• 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 12 » Ten people are killed and 15 wounded in a bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
• March 27 » A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are Christians celebrating Easter.
• October 13 » The Maldives announces its decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations.
• November 14 » A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Kaikoura, New Zealand, at a depth of 15km (9 miles), resulting in the deaths of two people.
• December 9 » President Park Geun-hye of South Korea is impeached by the country's National Assembly in response to a major political scandal. Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn becomes Acting President, later declining to run for a full term.
• 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 December 23, 2016 was between 4.3 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (17%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.