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• Cornelia Clasina Joanna Bressers (90), Tilburg
• Cornelis Strijbis (89), Opmeer, Nederland
• Anna Mae Rose Guest (78), Grafton, Walsh County, North Dakota
• Akke den Haan (76)
• Dickie Ray Floyd (71), O'Fallon, St. Charles County, Missouri
• "Hugues" Marie Albert Georges André Ghislain de Pierpont (86), Esneux, Belgique
• Dirk de Zwart (83), Grand Rapids (Kent, Michigan, USA)
• Dora van Lier (99), Geffen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Elvira Johanna Motta (78), Son en Breugel
• Catharina Masteling (86), Harenkarspel

• 1988 » Lotte Friis, Danish swimmer
• 1989 » Maxime Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian skier
• 1990 » Tariq Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player
• 1991 » Logan Ryan, American football player
• 1992 » Avan Jogia, Canadian actor
• 1992 » Kyle Feldt, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 » Mitchell Frei, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Niclas Füllkrug, German footballer
• 1995 » André Burakovsky, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1995 » Mario Pašalić, Croatian footballer

• 2001 » Herbert A. Simon, American political scientist, economist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2002 » Isabelle Holland, Swiss-American author (b. 1920)
• 2002 » Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (b. 1930)
• 2003 » Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, Japanese-Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
• 2004 » Claude Ryan, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1925)
• 2005 » Robert Kearns, American engineer, invented the windscreen wiper (b. 1927)
• 2006 » Freddie Laker, English pilot and businessman, founded Laker Airways (b. 1922)
• 2007 » Hank Bauer, American baseball player and manager (b. 1922)
• 2007 » Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
• 2008 » Christopher Hyatt, American occultist and author (b. 1943)

1. Samuel
2. Thomas
3. Sam
4. Lucas
5. Sem
6. Jelle
7. Daan
8. Lars
9. Niels
10. Claus-casimir
11. Tim
12. Thijs
13. Noah
14. Max
15. Johannes
16. Nick

1. Amber
2. Sanne
3. Anna
4. Emma
5. Lotte
6. Isa
7. Anne
8. Iris
9. Lisa
10. Chiara
11. Femke
12. Ameila
13. Julia
14. Noa
15. Charlotte
16. Anouk

• 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, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• January 4 » Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
• April 30 » U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
• May 28 » The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
• September 15 » National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
• September 29 » Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.
• November 27 » Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.

The temperature on February 9, 2004 was between 1.3 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.