About the day » Sunday May 15, 2011Calender converter

• Arol Russell Castleberry (91), Seminole, Pinellas, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Chiara Nasi (98), Torino, Italie
• Antje Nieboer (94), Texel
• Alan Anthony Colleton GODSAL (85)
• Diana Vegter (89)
• Annie Ruth Dement (72), Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama, United States of America
• Arnold Koele (63), Souix Falls, SD
• Charles Austin (83), Forest, Scott, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia (Corrie) Vlieland (90), Voorschoten
• Ben Coesel (69), Den Helder

• 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

• 2008 » Alexander Courage, American composer and conductor (b. 1919)
• 2008 » Tommy Burns, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1956)
• 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)

1. Tim
2. Lucas
3. Thomas
4. Chris
5. Daan
6. Liam
7. Jesse
8. Lars
9. Luuk
10. Sem
11. Thijs
12. Levi
13. Julian
14. Milan
15. Gijs
16. Finn

1. Lenthe
2. Lieke
3. Anna
4. Sophie
5. Emma
6. Sanne
7. Eva
8. Charlotte
9. Elise
10. Julia
11. Lotte
12. Zoi
13. Tess
14. Olivia
15. Lisa
16. Noa

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
• July 21 » NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
• August 6 » War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
• August 23 » Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War.
• October 31 » The global population of humans reaches seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as the Day of Seven Billion.
• November 8 » The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.
• December 31 » NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.

The temperature on May 15, 2011 was between 8.4 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.