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• (Henk) van Buul (79), Son en Breugel
• Anne Feenstra (74)
• Gerardus Hendrikus van Roon (87), Den Helder
• Abraham (Bram) Jonker (93), Doorn, Nederland
• Hen van Paassen (72), Kwintsheul, Nederland
• Hendrikje Nijenhuis (69), Hardenberg
• Esta Malone Candy (98), Texas
• Geertje Durks Rozendal (80), Feanwâlden, Dantumadiel, Fryslân, Nederland
• Cornelis Johannes Fokker (72), Alkmaar, Gemeente Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Chris van Winden (84)

• 1993 » El Hadji Ba, French footballer
• 1993 » Joshua Coyne, American violinist and composer
• 1994 » Daria Gavrilova, Russian-Australian tennis player
• 1994 » Kyle Schwarber, American baseball player
• 1996 » Emmanuel Mudiay, Congolese basketball player
• 1996 » Taylor Hill, American model
• 1997 » Milena Venega, Cuban rower
• 1998 » Bo Bichette, American baseball player
• 1999 » Madison Beer, American singer, songwriter and producer.
• 2007 » Roman Griffin Davis, British actor, second youngest Golden Globe recipient.

• 2014 » Ailsa McKay, Scottish economist and academic (b. 1963)
• 2014 » Geoff Edwards, American actor and game show host (b. 1931)
• 2014 » Leopoldo María Panero, Spanish poet and translator (b. 1948)
• 2014 » Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1931)
• 2015 » Edward Egan, American cardinal (b. 1932)
• 2015 » Vlada Divljan, Serbian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958)
• 2016 » Al Wistert, American football player and coach (b. 1920)
• 2016 » Hassan Al-Turabi, Sudanese activist and politician (b. 1932)
• 2016 » Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer and engineer (b. 1941)
• 2017 » Kurt Moll, German opera singer (b. 1938)

• 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.
• February 11 » A man shoots six people dead at an education center in Jizan Province, Saudi Arabia.
• May 23 » Two suicide bombings, conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, killed at least 45 potential army recruits in Aden, Yemen.
• June 12 » Forty-nine civilians are killed and 58 others injured in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida; the gunman, Omar Mateen, is killed in a gunfight with police.
• 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.
• 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 March 5, 2016 was between -4.5 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.