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• Julia Anna Viguurs, 's-Hertogenbosch

• Aartje Johanna van Vuuren (92)
• Gianfranco Balzanelli (76), Mantova
• Barbara Huizinga (87), Dalfsen, NL-OV
• Cornelis 'Cor' van Duijvenbode (70), Katwijk
• Afra Maria van Oosten (103), Voorhout
• Floyd Elliott Banks (69), Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands
• Antoon ('Tom') Ringoir (92), Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Cornelis Hoek (71), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Harm Petter
• Harmpje Booij (91), Genemuiden, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1986 » Ibrahim Afellay, Dutch footballer
• 1987 » Marc Pugh, English footballer
• 1987 » Pablo Aguilar, Paraguayan footballer
• 1988 » Jesse Plemons, American actor
• 1990 » Miralem Pjanić, Bosnian footballer
• 1990 » Yevgeniya Kanayeva, Russian gymnast
• 1991 » Quavo, American rapper
• 1993 » Keshorn Walcott, Trinidadian javelin thrower
• 1997 » Abdelhak Nouri, Dutch footballer
• 1997 » Dillon Bassett, American race car driver

• 2013 » Fred, French author and illustrator (b. 1931)
• 2013 » Jesús Franco, Spanish director, screenwriter, producer, and actor (b. 1930)
• 2013 » Milo O'Shea, Irish-American actor (b. 1926)
• 2014 » Glyn Jones, South African actor and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 2014 » Urs Widmer, Swiss author and playwright (b. 1938)
• 2015 » Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 2015 » Robert H. Schuller, American pastor and author (b. 1926)
• 2015 » Steve Stevaert, Belgian businessman and politician, Governor of Limburg (b. 1954)
• 2016 » Gallieno Ferri, Italian comic book artist and illustrator (b. 1929)
• 2016 » Robert Abajyan, Armenian sergeant (b. 1996)

• 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.
• January 6 » Five people are killed and six others injured in a mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in Broward County, Florida.
• April 9 » The Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt, take place.
• 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.
• July 28 » Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from office for life by Supreme Court of Pakistan after finding him guilty of corruption charges.
• October 12 » The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. and is immediately followed by Israel.
• December 22 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 2397 against North Korea is unanimously approved.

The temperature on April 2, 2017 was between 4.4 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.