About the day » Tuesday August 7, 2012Calender converter

• Elouan Martin du Puytison († 2019)

• Christiaan Reginald (Reggy) Lapré (66), Dordrecht
• Grietiena Antje Kerssies (81), Bunschoten
• Catharina Alida Bruin (83), Arnemuiden
• Cheryl de Bruin, USA
• Adrianus J. Janvier (70), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Apolonia Johanna Meure (93), Overveen
• Hans-Werner Bernhard Karl Graf Finck von Finckenstein (86)
• Dirk Henderikus Kat
• Agatha Karolina Wiss (85)
• Christiaan Reginald Lapré (66), Dordrecht

• 1991 » Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer († 2016)
• 1991 » Mike Trout, American baseball player
• 1991 » Mitchell te Vrede, Dutch footballer
• 1992 » Adam Yates, English cyclist
• 1992 » E. J. Tackett, American bowler
• 1992 » Simon Yates, English cyclist
• 1993 » Karol Zalewski, Polish sprinter
• 1993 » Martti Nõmme, Estonian ski jumper
• 1998 » María Bazo, Peruvian windsurfer
• 1998 » Vladimir Barbu, Italian diver

• 2011 » Mark Hatfield, American soldier, academic, and politician, 29th Governor of Oregon (b. 1922)
• 2011 » Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain and spy (b. 1912)
• 2012 » Anna Piaggi, Italian journalist and author (b. 1931)
• 2012 » Dušan Zbavitel, Czech indologist and author (b. 1925)
• 2012 » Judith Crist, American critic and academic (b. 1922)
• 2012 » Mayer Zald, American sociologist and academic (b. 1931)
• 2012 » Murtuz Alasgarov, Azerbaijani academic and politician, Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan (b. 1928)
• 2012 » Vladimir Kobzev, Russian footballer and coach (b. 1959)
• 2013 » Almir Kayumov, Russian footballer (b. 1964)
• 2013 » Samuel G. Armistead, American linguist, historian, and academic (b. 1927)

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

1. Abby
2. Tess
3. Anna
4. Sophie
5. Emma
6. Iris
7. Indy
8. Julia
9. Tessa
10. Olivia
11. Lieke
12. Charlotte
13. Lotte
14. Eef
15. Luisa
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 19 » The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
• May 13 » Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40.
• June 16 » The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.
• November 9 » A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.
• November 30 » An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane belonging to Aéro-Service, crashes into houses near Maya-Maya Airport during a thunderstorm, killing at least 32 people.
• December 9 » A plane crash in Mexico kills seven people.

The temperature on August 7, 2012 was between 14.3 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.