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• Harmke Bos (85), Emmen
• Aart Schuuring (73), Gemeente Hilversum, North Holland, Netherlands
• Catherina De reus (94), Orange, New South Wales, Australia
• Hillechien Lammina Schutrups (94), Dalen,Drenthe,Niederlande
• Herman Johan Jozef Bult (79), Oldenzaal
• Germa van Werven (56), Mori (Italie)
• Betty Jayne Ritsema (90), Battle Creek Calhoun Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Arnoldus Adrianus Johannes Lipman (85), Wateringen, Nederland
• Henriette "Rika" M. Brône (74), Hasselt, België
• Anna Adriana Van Aert (88), Breda, Noord-Brabant,Netherlands

• 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

• 2012 » Altamiro Carrilho, Brazilian flute player and composer (b. 1924)
• 2012 » Bob Birch, American bass player and saxophonist (b. 1956)
• 2012 » Harry Harrison, American author and illustrator (b. 1925)
• 2013 » Marich Man Singh Shrestha, Nepali politician, 28th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1942)
• 2013 » Rosalía Mera, Spanish businesswoman, co-founded Inditex and Zara (b. 1944)
• 2013 » Sławomir Mrożek, Polish-French author and playwright (b. 1930)
• 2014 » Licia Albanese, Italian-American soprano and actress (b. 1909)
• 2015 » Hamid Gul, Pakistani general (b. 1936)
• 2015 » Julian Bond, American academic and politician (b. 1940)
• 2017 » Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian-American architect (b. 1925)

• 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.
• February 20 » Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.
• February 22 » A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.
• March 27 » Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.
• October 1 » A gunman kills nine people at a community college in Oregon.
• October 26 » A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in northeastern Afghanistan, killing 398 people and leaving 2,536 people injured.
• November 5 » Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

The temperature on August 15, 2015 was between 15.8 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 8.5 mm of rain during 6.0 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (16%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.