About the day » Saturday September 8, 2007Calender converter

• Florian DEKONINCK, Ottignies-Louvain la Neuve
• Laura Boels, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Netherlands († 2007)

• Bradley Craig Marks (12)
• Clarence Kenneth Petri (74), Marshfield, Wood County, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Breunesse (83), Naarden
• Franciscus van de Goorbergh (88), Amsterdam
• Evert Donald Wybenga (78), Blaricum
• Anna Cornelia Maria Arnolda van Belkom (82), Sittard, Limburg, Nederland
• Agnes (Marty) Martha McEwen (64), Mandelein, Verenigde Staten
• Félicite Pélagie Josephine Saenen (87), Zoutleeuw, België
• Beatrice Mabel Treadwell (90), Rushden, Northamptonshire, England
• Cornelius Antonius Spijkers (80), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg

• 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

• 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)
• 2009 » Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
• 2009 » Mike Bongiorno, American-Italian television host (b. 1924)

• 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 Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• February 10 » Then Illinois senator Barack Obama announces his candidacy for president in the 2008 elections, which he later goes on to win.
• March 1 » Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including eight at Enterprise High School.
• April 16 » Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
• April 20 » Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
• November 15 » Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
• December 5 » Westroads Mall shooting: Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins kills eight people, including himself, with a WASR-10 at a Von Maur department store in Omaha, Nebraska.

The temperature on September 8, 2007 was between 10.2 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.