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• Alida Agnes Tesselaar (86), Oenkerk
• Francisca Elisabeth Anna de Leeuw (78), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• Earl E Schmit (66), Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa
• Agnes Ruby Sherren (80), Canada
• Cornelia maria Adriana van Egeraat (81), Bergen op Zoom
• Gertje Hoekstra (85), Sneek
• Judith Roswitha Nolten (79), Amsterdam, Government of Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
• André Dupont (83), Maastricht
• Johanna Wilhelmina Melchers (94), Australië
• Hazel Irene Stites (91), Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska, VS

• 1992 » Joshua Ingram, Canadian drummer and percussionist
• 1992 » Quinton de Kock, South African cricketer
• 1993 » Patricia Kú Flores, Peruvian tennis player
• 1994 » Lloyd Perrett, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1994 » Nat Wolff, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player and actor
• 1996 » Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Russian figure skater
• 1997 » Naiktha Bains, British-Australian tennis player
• 1997 » Shoma Uno, Japanese figure skater
• 1998 » Jasmine Armfield, English actress
• 1998 » Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer

• 2014 » Dieter Grau, German-American scientist and engineer (b. 1913)
• 2014 » Lowell Steward, American captain (b. 1919)
• 2014 » Oleh Lysheha, Ukrainian poet and playwright (b. 1949)
• 2014 » Richard C. Hottelet, American journalist (b. 1917)
• 2015 » Hal Brown, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
• 2015 » Michael Wyschogrod, German-American philosopher and theologian (b. 1928)
• 2015 » Osamu Hayaishi, American-Japanese biochemist and academic (b. 1920)
• 2016 » Benjamin A. Gilman, American soldier and politician (b. 1922)
• 2016 » Gordon Hunt, American voice director (b. 1929)
• 2016 » Henry Heimlich, American doctor (b. 1920)

1. Tijs
2. Siem
3. Jan
4. Ties
5. Daan
6. Cil
7. Noah
8. Thomas
9. Bram
10. Jesse
11. Sam
12. Benjamin
13. Liam
14. Luuk
15. Albert
16. Nathan

1. Emma
2. Anna
3. Louise
4. Tess
5. Sophie
6. Lynn
7. Nora
8. Liv
9. Eva-julie
10. Juliette
11. Julia
12. Mia
13. Mila
14. Nina
15. Emily
16. Lisa

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 26, 2017 to present the cabinet Rutte III, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 17.1 million citizens.
• April 3 » A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.
• June 12 » American student Otto Warmbier returns home in a coma after spending 17 months in a North Korean prison and dies a week later.
• August 18 » The first terrorist attack ever sentenced as a crime in Finland kills two and injures eight.
• September 20 » Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful Category4 hurricane, resulting in 2,975 deaths, US$90billion in damage, and a major humanitarian crisis.
• October 27 » Catalonia declares independence from Spain.
• November 21 » Robert Mugabe formally resigns as President of Zimbabwe, after thirty-seven years in office.

The temperature on December 17, 2017 was between -2.8 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 4.2 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.