About the day » Tuesday August 15, 2006Calender converter

• Freida Bolt (95), Kent County, Michigan
• Catharina Conings (83), Opglabbeek, Provincie Limburg, België
• Bernard Heinrich - Berend Alers (83), Klazienaveen, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Doris Nisbet Stratton NSTR01.DOR01X (96), Whittington Hospital, Islington, London, England
• Anna Jacoba Alida Klein (93), Noordwijkerhout
• Dina Mia Cornelia Burgerhart (63), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anneke Alberta Schoonewelle (61), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• G. James Sikma (82), Hull,Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Frieda BOLT (94), Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Franciscus Josef Merkx (85), Tilburg

• 1989 » Joe Jonas, American singer-songwriter
• 1990 » Jennifer Lawrence, American actress
• 1991 » Petja Piiroinen, Finnish snowboarder
• 1992 » Baskaran Adhiban, Indian chess player
• 1993 » Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, English footballer
• 1993 » Clinton N'Jie, Cameroonian footballer
• 1994 » Kosuke Hagino, Japanese swimmer
• 1994 » Lasse Vigen Christensen, Danish footballer
• 1995 » Chief Keef, American rapper
• 1999 » Paola Reis, BMX rider

• 2004 » Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2005 » Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist and academic (b. 1927)
• 2006 » Coenraad Bron, Dutch computer scientist and academic (b. 1937)
• 2006 » Faas Wilkes, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1923)
• 2006 » Rick Bourke, Australian rugby league player (b. 1955)
• 2006 » Te Atairangikaahu, New Zealand queen (b. 1931)
• 2007 » Geoffrey Orbell, New Zealand physician (b. 1908)
• 2007 » John Gofman, American biologist, chemist, and physicist (b. 1918)
• 2007 » Richard Bradshaw, English conductor and director (b. 1944)
• 2007 » Sam Pollock, Canadian businessman (b. 1925)

• 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• March 1 » English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.
• March 10 » The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
• April 2 » Over 60 tornadoes break out in the United States; Tennessee is hardest hit with 29 people killed.
• August 22 » Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.
• November 5 » Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi'a Muslims.
• November 21 » Anti-Syrian Lebanese politician and government minister Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.

The temperature on August 15, 2006 was between 13.8 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.