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• Eline Ploegman († 2005)
• Sterre Lelieveldt, Doetinchem, Nederland († 2005)
• lieve van ninhuijs, maasbree

• Adriana Gerarda Maria Kortekaas (63), Delft
• Clarice ? (WARD) (86), East Staffs
• Cornelia Lith (82), Utrecht Utrecht Nederland
• Andrieske Wiebes van der Veen (87)
• Barbra Jane Duncan (70), Gas City, Grant, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Andre Roger Bol (80), Oostnieuwkerke
• Aaltje de Jong (98), Bergum
• Anna Maria Hendrika van Hilst (86), Geldrop
• Antje Kooistra (54), Zwaagwesteinde, Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Bertha Droste (92), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1991 » Ignacio González, Mexican footballer
• 1992 » Kilian Pruschke, German footballer
• 1992 » Nino Niederreiter, Swiss ice hockey player
• 1993 » Will Bosisto, Australian cricketer
• 1993 » Yoshikazu Fujita, Japanese rugby union player
• 1994 » Cameron Dallas, American Internet personality
• 1994 » Marco Benassi, Italian footballer
• 1995 » Ellie Black, Canadian gymnast
• 1998 » Matheus Leist, Brazilian race car driver
• 2000 » Brennan Malone, American baseball pitcher

• 2001 » Bill Ricker, Canadian entomologist and author (b. 1908)
• 2002 » Laurie Williams, Jamaican cricketer (b. 1968)
• 2003 » Leni Riefenstahl, German actress, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 2004 » Frank Thomas, American animator, voice actor, and screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 2005 » Donald Horne, Australian journalist, author, and critic (b. 1921)
• 2005 » Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer, footballer, and manager (b. 1932)
• 2006 » Hilda Bernstein, English-South African author and activist (b. 1915)
• 2006 » Peter Brock, Australian race car driver and sportscaster (b. 1945)
• 2007 » Vincent Serventy, Australian ornithologist, conservationist, and author (b. 1916)
• 2008 » Ralph Plaisted, American explorer (b. 1927)

• 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 8 » The nuclear sub USSSan Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
• July 26 » Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
• September 24 » Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.
• October 28 » I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is indicted due to his involvement in the Plame affair.
• November 9 » The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
• December 11 » Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese in Cronulla, New South Wales; these are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.

The temperature on September 8, 2005 was between 12.8 °C and 27.6 °C and averaged 20.4 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (80%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.