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• Gré (Greet) Arends (99), Capelle aan de IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dirk Kon (95), Heukelum
• Arie Duijndam (73), Noordwijk
• Anna Antonia Ruijer (85), Den Helder
• Jantinus (Tinus) Rosendal (88), Wapenveld, Nederland
• Herman Creuwels (94), Born (Sittard-Geleen), Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelia Meiling (99), 's-Heerenberg
• Cornelis Jacobus Stoop (92), Oudewater, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dirk Kon (95), Heukelum (Lingewaal), Gelderland, Nederland
• Janke Zondag (86), Erica, Nederland

• 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)

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

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

• 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.
• March 10 » The impeachment of President Park Geun-hye of South Korea in response to a major political scandal is unanimously upheld by the country's Constitutional Court, ending her presidency.
• May 12 » The WannaCry ransomware attack impacts over 400 thousand computers worldwide, targeting computers of the United Kingdom's National Health Services and Telefónica computers.
• September 7 » Equifax announce a cyber-crime identity theft event potentially impacting approximately 145​⁄₂ million U.S. consumers.
• December 11 » New York City attempted bombing: A pipe bomb partially detonates in the New York City Subway, in the Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal. Four people are injured, including the perpetrator.
• December 18 » Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501, derailed near DuPont, Washington, a city in United States near Olympia, Washington killing six people, and injuring 70 others.
• December 22 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 2397 against North Korea is unanimously approved.

The temperature on December 23, 2017 was between 8.0 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.