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• Mason Gijzen, Sittard

• Francisca Blommerde (86), Roosendaal
• Antonette Rijnders (93)
• Donald Anthony Worm (90), Waconia (Minnesota, VS)
• Elizabeth (Lies) KRAM (85)
• Gritinus Jonker (75), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Barbara Cornelia Bervoets (88)
• Anna Marie Nedrow (73), Hollow Rock, Carroll, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Elisabeth Catharina Maria van der Lem (75), Noordwijk
• Cor van Vliet (75), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bouwkje Jokanna Van der Meij (95)

• 1988 » Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer
• 1989 » Aleix Vidal, Spanish footballer
• 1989 » Charlison Benschop, Dutch footballer
• 1989 » Hayden Panettiere, American actress
• 1989 » James Davey, English rugby league player
• 1989 » Matteo Gentili, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Bo Burnham, American comedian, musician, actor, filmmaker and poet
• 1991 » Leandro Bacuna, Dutch footballer
• 1992 » Felipe Nasr, Brazilian race car driver
• 2000 » Kate Valdez, Filipina actress and singer

• 2013 » Jean Berkey, American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
• 2013 » Sid Bernstein, American record producer (b. 1918)
• 2014 » Albert Reynolds, Irish businessman and politician, 9th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1932)
• 2014 » Gerry Anderson, Irish radio and television host (b. 1944)
• 2014 » Helen Bamber, English psychotherapist and academic (b. 1925)
• 2014 » Jean Redpath, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
• 2014 » Steven R. Nagel, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1946)
• 2015 » Colin Beyer, New Zealand lawyer and businessman (b. 1938)
• 2015 » Jimmy Evert, American tennis player and coach (b. 1924)
• 2015 » Wang Dongxing, Chinese commander and politician (b. 1916)

• 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 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.
• May 12 » Massive Nepal earthquake kills 218 people and injures more than 3500.
• June 3 » An explosion at a gasoline station in Accra, Ghana, killing more than 200 people.
• 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.
• August 5 » The Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste water spill releases three million gallons of heavy metal toxin tailings and waste water into the Animas River in Colorado.

The temperature on August 21, 2015 was between 13.7 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.