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• Nore Hayen, Sittard, Limburg, Nederland

• Carl Phelps (52), Somerset, Pulaski County, Kentucky
• Eliane Marie Julia VANPEE (90), Salon-de-Provence, 13103, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
• Geert Klazes Hofstra (80), Roordahuizum, Idaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Berend Johannes Kuiper (93), Winschoten
• Cor de Vos (69), Borne, Nederland
• Alicia Hernandez (86), Seguin, Texas
• Anneke Nap (70)
• Gisèle FROMENT (87), Albert,80300,Somme,Picardie,FRANCE
• Eldon Dean Veld (81), USA Eldora Hardin County Iowa
• Gerrit Nellestijn (84), Amerongen

• 1989 » Ken Baumann, American actor and author
• 1990 » Aleksandra Szwed, Polish actress and singer
• 1990 » Kane Williamson, New Zealand cricket captain
• 1990 » Parker Kligerman, American race car driver
• 1990 » Vladimír Darida, Czech footballer
• 1991 » Nélson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer
• 1991 » Tyrone Peachey, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 » Josip Drmić, Swiss footballer
• 1998 » Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 2000 » Félix Auger-Aliassime, Canadian tennis player

• 2013 » Fernando Castro Pacheco, Mexican painter, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1918)
• 2013 » Johannes Bluyssen, Dutch bishop (b. 1926)
• 2013 » Karen Black, American actress (b. 1939)
• 2014 » Charles Keating, English-American actor (b. 1941)
• 2014 » Leonardo Legaspi, Filipino archbishop (b. 1935)
• 2014 » Menahem Golan, Israeli director and producer (b. 1929)
• 2014 » Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer and conductor (b. 1929)
• 2014 » Red Wilson, American football and baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2015 » Gus Mortson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2015 » Sean Price, American rapper (b. 1972)

• 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 3 » Boko Haram militants raze the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, starting the Baga massacre and killing as many as 2,000 people.
• 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.
• June 26 » Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occurred on what was dubbed Bloody Friday by international media. Upwards of 750 people were either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks.
• October 1 » A gunman kills nine people at a community college in Oregon.
• November 24 » A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria-Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort.

The temperature on August 8, 2015 was between 13.0 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.