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Died on Friday August 9, 1991
- Baukje Hiemstra (81), Sneek
- Adrianus Gerardus van den Kerkhof (80)
- Anthony Pobst (88), Oran, Scott, Missouri
- Claudia Trox (14)
- Adrienne Marie Cornille Delmote (80), Halluin, 59 (F)
- Anna Rudinga (79), Chicago, Cook County, US-IL
- Annechien van Dam (93)
- Clemence De Rycker (94), Brugge
- * Josephus Johannes Kloprogge (85), Bussum
- Aaltje Schepers (91), Vriezenveen, Overijssel, Nederland
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from August 9, 1991 at Delpher
Born on August 9
- 1989 » Jason Heyward, American baseball player
- 1989 » Stefano Okaka, Italian footballer
- 1990 » İshak Doğan, Turkish footballer
- 1990 » Brice Roger, French skier
- 1990 » D'Arcy Short, Australian cricketer
- 1990 » Sarah McBride, American LGBT activist
- 1990 » Stuart McInally, Scottish rugby player
- 1991 » Alexa Bliss, American bodybuilder and wrestler
- 1991 » Alice Barlow, English actress
- 1991 » Hansika Motwani, Indian actress
Died on August 9
- 1985 » Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1927)
- 1988 » Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer and poet (b. 1905)
- 1988 » M. Carl Holman, American author, educator, poet, and playwright (b. 1919)
- 1990 » Joe Mercer, English footballer and manager (b. 1914)
- 1992 » Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer and actor (b. 1938)
- 1995 » Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
- 1996 » Frank Whittle, English soldier and engineer, invented the jet engine (b. 1907)
- 1999 » Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian journalist and politician (b. 1910)
- 2000 » John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
- 2000 » Nicholas Markowitz, American murder victim (b. 1984)
Names that were popular for boys in 1991
- Johannes
- Jan
- Cornelis
- Thomas
- Michael
- Pieter
- Jacob
- Willem
- Hendrik
- Maria
- David
- Peter
- Robert
- Alexander
- Patrick
- Jeroen
Names that were popular for girls in 1991
- Maria
- Johanna
- Elisabeth
- Marie
- Anne
- Anna
- Laura
- Nicole
- Lisa
- Elizabeth
- Joyce
- Cornelia
- Michelle
- Wilhelmina
- Louise
- Charlotte
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1991
- Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
- The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
- April 10 » Italian ferry MSMoby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy, killing 140.
- April 29 » A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.
- June 17 » Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
- August 21 » Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after its occupation by the Soviet Union since 1940.
- October 27 » Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
- December 5 » Leonid Kravchuk is elected the first president of Ukraine.
The weather on Friday August 9, 1991
The temperature on August 9, 1991 was between 8.6 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.
Source: KNMI
Source: KNMI