About the day » Saturday January 3, 2015Calender converter

• Evert Pater, Ahaus Germany

• Christiana Francisca Ludovica De Wolf (87), Temse
• Adriana Cornelia Ardon (63)
• Albertus Constant VAN DER FELTZ (79), Boca Raton Palm Beach Florida U.S.A
• Dik Gerardus Coppens (97), Den Helder
• Elisabeth Johanna Barbara Hoek (92), Deventer
• Alida Cornelia (Lidy) DE VROOMEN (84)
• Elsbeth Schuurhuis (50)
• Darlene M Schroeder (85), Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa
• Camiel Michiel Dedeckere (78), Menen
• Aafje van den Nieuwendijk (88), Zaandijk

• 1989 » Ben Matulino, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1989 » Kōhei Uchimura, Japanese artistic gymnast
• 1990 » Yoichiro Kakitani, Japanese footballer
• 1991 » Özgür Çek, Turkish footballer
• 1991 » Dane Gagai, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Jerson Cabral, Dutch footballer
• 1991 » Sébastien Faure, French footballer
• 1994 » Isaquias Queiroz, Brazilian sprint canoeist
• 1997 » Kyron McMaster, British Virgin Islands hurdler
• 2003 » Greta Thunberg, Swedish environmental activist

• 2013 » Alfie Fripp, English soldier and pilot (b. 1913)
• 2014 » George Goodman, American economist and author (b. 1930)
• 2014 » Phil Everly, American singer and guitarist (b. 1939)
• 2014 » Saul Zaentz, American film producer (b. 1921)
• 2015 » Edward Brooke, American captain and politician, 47th Massachusetts Attorney General (b. 1919)
• 2015 » Martin Anderson, American economist and academic (b. 1936)
• 2016 » Bill Plager, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1945)
• 2016 » Igor Sergun, Russian general and diplomat (b. 1957)
• 2016 » Paul Bley, Canadian-American pianist and composer (b. 1932)
• 2016 » Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist, astronomer, and academic (b. 1928)

• 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.
• January 9 » The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes.
• 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.
• April 2 » Gunmen attack Garissa University College in Kenya, killing at least 148 people and wounding 79 others.
• October 29 » China announces the end of One-child policy after 35 years.
• November 24 » An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.
• December 18 » Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes.

The temperature on January 3, 2015 was between 2.6 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.