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Died on Thursday January 15, 2015



Born on January 15

Died on January 15
  • 2013 » Nagisa Oshima, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
  • 2014 » Curtis Bray, American football player and coach (b. 1970)
  • 2014 » John Dobson, Chinese-American astronomer and author (b. 1915)
  • 2014 » Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (b. 1944)
  • 2015 » Ervin Drake, American songwriter and composer (b. 1919)
  • 2015 » Kim Fowley, American singer-songwriter, producer, and manager (b. 1939)
  • 2015 » Ray Nagel, American football player and coach (b. 1927)
  • 2016 » Francisco X. Alarcón, American poet and educator (b. 1954)
  • 2016 » Ken Judge, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1958)
  • 2016 » Manuel Velázquez, Spanish footballer (b. 1943)

Names that were popular for boys in 2015
  1. Sem
  2. Jan
  3. Max
  4. Noah
  5. Liam
  6. Lucas
  7. Thijs
  8. Thomas
  9. Jacob
  10. Julian
  11. Levi
  12. James
  13. Jack
  14. Tim
  15. Milan
  16. Siem
Names that were popular for girls in 2015
  1. Emma
  2. Charlotte
  3. Bo
  4. Sophie
  5. Noor
  6. Dana
  7. Nora
  8. Anna
  9. Lisa
  10. Ella
  11. Sarah
  12. Roos
  13. Julia
  14. Lotte
  15. Mila
  16. Tess

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 2015
  • 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.
  • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
  • February 4 » TransAsia Airways Flight 235 with 58 people on board, en route from the Taiwanese capital Taipei to Kinmen, crashes into the Keelung River just after take-off, killing 43 people.
  • May 3 » Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
  • July 20 » A huge explosion in the mostly Kurdish border town of Suruç, Turkey, targeting the Socialist Youth Associations Federation, kills at least 31 people and injures over 100.
  • August 5 » The Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste water spill releases three million gallons of heavy metal toxin tailings and waste water into the Animas River in Colorado.
  • September 9 » Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
  • November 24 » A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria-Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.
Weather January 15, 2015

The temperature on January 15, 2015 was between 5.8 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 8.0 mm of rain during 11.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.

Source: KNMI