About the day » Tuesday May 15, 2012Calender converter

• Allegonda van Zwam (78), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Eugenie Ada Marie Steijns (88), Schiers (Zwits)
• Adrianus Laurentius Dijkman Dulkes (74), Alkmaar, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Cornelis Karssen (85), Bussum, Nederland
• Agathus Christianus Antonius Maria Nieuwenhuis (107)
• Wevers (79), Roosendaal
• Gerarda Elisabeth Antonetta Weldam (86), de Meern
• Daniel SCHIETTECATTE (45), Bois-d'Haine,7170,Hainaut,Wallonie,BELGIQUE
• Gerrit Pieter Oosterling (75), zederik
• Alvin G. NIENHUIS (89), Borculo Michigan U.S.A

• 1988 » Indrek Kajupank, Estonian basketball player
• 1988 » Scott Laird, English footballer
• 1989 » Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, French footballer
• 1990 » Jordan Eberle, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Lee Jong-hyun, Korean guitarist
• 1990 » Stella Maxwell, New Zealand model
• 1993 » Jeremy Hawkins, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1993 » Tomáš Kalas, Czech international footballer
• 1996 » Birdy, English singer-songwriter
• 1997 » Ousmane Dembélé, French footballer

• 2009 » Bud Tingwell, Australian actor, director, and producer (b. 1923)
• 2009 » Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player and bass player (b. 1964)
• 2010 » Besian Idrizaj, Austrian footballer (b. 1987)
• 2010 » Loris Kessel, Swiss race car driver (b. 1950)
• 2012 » Arno Lustiger, German historian and author (b. 1924)
• 2012 » Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist and essayist (b. 1928)
• 2012 » Zakaria Mohieddin, Egyptian soldier and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1918)
• 2013 » Henrique Rosa, Bissau-Guinean politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1946)
• 2014 » Jean-Luc Dehaene, French-Belgian politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1940)
• 2014 » Noribumi Suzuki, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1933)

1. Lucas
2. Nathan
3. Bram
4. Jan
5. Ruben
6. Finn
7. Liam
8. Thomas
9. Jesse
10. Milan
11. Daan
12. Levi
13. Thijs
14. Jacob
15. Sem
16. Luuk

1. Abby
2. Tess
3. Anna
4. Emma
5. Sophie
6. Iris
7. Indy
8. Tessa
9. Julia
10. Olivia
11. Lieke
12. Lotte
13. Luisa
14. Charlotte
15. Roos
16. Eva

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• 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 16.7 million citizens.
• January 7 » A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
• January 19 » The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
• March 13 » The Sierre coach crash kills 28 people, including 22 children.
• June 2 » Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of demonstrators during the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
• June 13 » A series of bombings across Iraq, including Baghdad, Hillah and Kirkuk, kills at least 93 people and wounds over 300 others.
• June 16 » The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.

The temperature on May 15, 2012 was between 7.6 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.