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• H. de Jong (101), Balk
• Jan Masselink (79), Almelo
• Carolyn McDonald (78), Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, United States of America
• Geert de Veen (74), Ter Apel
• Abraham Jan Pranger (88), Den Helder
• Darryl Walter Sherren (34), Kootenay Landing, British Columbia, Canada
• Dirkje Mudde (96), Lekkerkerk
• Aaltje Verbeek (88), Dokkum
• Bernardus Albertus van Vilsteren (84), Deventer
• Anthonius Cornelis van Moorsel (87), Sassenheim

• 1991 » Andreas Weimann, Austrian footballer
• 1991 » Esteban Gutiérrez, Mexican race car driver
• 1991 » Konrad Hurrell, Tongan rugby league player
• 1995 » Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Danish footballer
• 1996 » Takakeishō Mitsunobu, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1997 » Jack Cogger, Australian rugby league player
• 1997 » Olivia Holt, American actress and singer
• 1998 » Kanon Suzuki, Japanese singer and actress
• 1998 » Mimi Keene, English actress
• 2003 » Toni Shaw, British Paralympic swimmer

• 2013 » Ruth Asawa, American sculptor and educator (b. 1926)
• 2013 » Shawn Burr, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1966)
• 2013 » Willie Dunn, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
• 2014 » Chapman Pincher, Indian-English historian, journalist, and author (b. 1914)
• 2014 » Harold J. Greene, American general (b. 1962)
• 2014 » Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, American physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1927)
• 2014 » Vladimir Orlov, Russian author (b. 1936)
• 2015 » Arthur Walter James, English journalist and politician (b. 1912)
• 2015 » Tony Millington, Welsh footballer (b. 1943)
• 2019 » Toni Morrison, American author, Pulitzer Prize winner, and Nobel laureate (b. 1931).

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.
• April 3 » A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.
• April 9 » The Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt, take place.
• 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 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 August 5, 2017 was between 10.6 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.