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• Sanne Helena Jacoba van Dongen, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Gerda Hebing
• Harke Appelhof (73), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Helena van Os (99), Emmen
• Allen Raymond January (78), Grand Junction, Mesa, Colorado, Verenigde Staten
• Armin Leopold Ernst Bruno Heinrich Willa August zur Lippe-Biesterfeld (91), Detmold, Kreis Lippe, Nordrhein-Westfalen, BRD
• Debra Kohnhorst (66)
• Armin Leopold Ernst Bruno Heinrich Willa August zur LIPPE (91), Detmold,, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Baukje de Vries (55), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Franciscus Wilhelmus Johannes Maria Brouwers (80), Brussel, 1000 Brussel, België
• Gorus van der Galien (89), Wouterswoude

• 1992 » Andrei Peteleu, Romanian footballer
• 1992 » Callum Skinner, Scottish track cyclist
• 1992 » Carolina Horta, Brazilian beach volleyball player
• 1992 » Demi Lovato, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1992 » Deniss Rakels, Latvian footballer
• 1992 » Matt Eisenhuth, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Mario Jelavic, Croatian footballer
• 1995 » Liana Liberato, American television and film actress
• 1996 » Bunty Afoa, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1999 » Oregon Kaufusi, Australian rugby league player

• 2014 » Anton Buslov, Russian astrophysicist and journalist (b. 1983)
• 2014 » B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga (b. 1918)
• 2014 » Boris Dubin, Russian sociologist and academic (b. 1946)
• 2014 » Buddy MacMaster, Canadian singer-songwriter and fiddler (b. 1924)
• 2014 » Edmund Szoka, American cardinal (b. 1927)
• 2014 » Lois Mai Chan, Taiwanese-American librarian, author, and academic (b. 1934)
• 2014 » Sava Stojkov, Serbian painter and educator (b. 1925)
• 2015 » Egon Bahr, German journalist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany (b. 1922)
• 2015 » Frank Wilkes, Australian soldier and politician (b. 1922)
• 2015 » Paul Kibblewhite, New Zealand chemist and engineer (b. 1941)

• 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 7 » Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shooting twelve people execution style, and wounding eleven others.
• January 12 » Government raids kill 143 Boko Haram fighters in Kolofata, Cameroon.
• 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.
• June 17 » Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
• September 9 » Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
• September 24 » At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.

The temperature on August 20, 2015 was between 10.4 °C and 24.9 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.