About the day » Tuesday May 12, 2015Calender converter

• Bert van Gils (66)
• Barbara Ann McMurphy (67), Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, United States of America
• Cornelia Johanna Maria van der Sman (84), Schipluiden
• Anna Geertruida Abelen (91)
• Elsje Tromp Meesters (86), Velp, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• anna VERSCHOOR (83), oud-beijerland
• Donna Mae Newey (70), South Ogden-Utah (USA)
• Agnes Maria Theresia VERMEYEN (99), Antwerpen, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Gijsberta Heemskerk (92), Noordwijkerhout
• Alida (Lida) De Graaf (91), Beverwijk, Nederland

• 1986 » Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress
• 1986 » Jonathan Orozco, Mexican footballer
• 1987 » Kieron Pollard, Trinidadian cricketer
• 1988 » Marcelo, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 » Eleftheria Eleftheriou, Greek Cypriot singer, musician, and actress
• 1990 » Florent Amodio, French figure skater
• 1992 » Volha Khudzenka, Belarusian kayaker
• 1995 » Irina Khromacheva, Russian tennis player
• 1995 » Luke Benward, American actor and singer
• 1997 » Morgan Lake, English athlete

• 2013 » Gerd Langguth, German political scientist, author, and academic (b. 1946)
• 2014 » Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-German actress and singer (b. 1925)
• 2014 » H. R. Giger, Swiss painter, sculptor, and set designer (b. 1940)
• 2014 » Lorenzo Zambrano, Mexican businessman and philanthropist (b. 1944)
• 2014 » Marco Cé, Italian cardinal (b. 1925)
• 2014 » Sarat Pujari, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
• 2015 » Peter Gay, German-American historian, author, and academic (b. 1923)
• 2015 » William Zinsser American journalist and critic (b. 1922)
• 2016 » Mike Agostini, Trinidadian sprinter (b. 1935)
• 2017 » Mauno Koivisto, Finnish banker and politician, 9th President of Finland (b. 1923)

1. Sem
2. Jan
3. Max
4. Noah
5. Liam
6. Lucas
7. Thijs
8. Jacob
9. Thomas
10. Julian
11. Levi
12. Jack
13. James
14. Luuk
15. Tim
16. Siem

1. Emma
2. Charlotte
3. Sophie
4. Bo
5. Noor
6. Dana
7. Nora
8. Anna
9. Lisa
10. Ella
11. Sarah
12. Julia
13. Lotte
14. Mila
15. Tess
16. Roos

• 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.
• March 4 » At least 34 miners die in a suspected gas explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine in the rebel-held Donetsk region of Ukraine.
• March 27 » Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.
• June 5 » An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.0 struck Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia killing 18 people, including hikers and mountain guides on Mount Kinabalu, after mass landslides that occurred during the earthquake. This is the strongest earthquake to strike Malaysia since 1975.
• June 30 » A Hercules C-130 military aircraft with 113 people on board crashes in a residential area in Medan, Indonesia, resulting in at least 116 deaths.
• 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 12 » At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure nearly 800 more in Tianjin, China.

The temperature on May 12, 2015 was between 11.2 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.