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• Roosje Janssen, Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2008)

• Clarence Erkelens (78)
• "Michel" Marie Villedieu de Torcy (79), Cambremer, Calvados, France
• Agatha Jannetje Cornelia Aartman (77), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Anna Witteveen (91)
• Adriana ( Adrienne) Florencia Cerpentier (78), Beveren-Waas
• Clarence Robert Hornby (100), Adams, Gage County, Nebraska
• Adriana Fiere (76), Almere
• Bernardus Josephus Corstens (73), Schipluiden
• Cornelis Albertus (Kees) Boots (75), Beverwijk (Heemskerk)
• Anna-Maria-Bertha Pemen (70), Turnhout (B)

• 1989 » Michaëlla Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
• 1989 » Michael Beasley, American basketball player
• 1989 » Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress
• 1989 » Yana Maksimava, Belarusian heptathlete
• 1990 » Justin Blackmon, American football player
• 1991 » Álvaro Soler, Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1991 » Edon Hasani, Albanian football player
• 1992 » Joseph Parker, Samoan heavyweight boxer
• 1993 » Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English long jumper and heptathlete
• 1999 » Shannon Tavarez, American actress († 2010)

• 2004 » Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and academic (b. 1909)
• 2006 » Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
• 2006 » W. Cleon Skousen, American author and academic (b. 1913)
• 2007 » Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977)
• 2007 » Jean-Pierre Vernant, French anthropologist and historian (b. 1914)
• 2008 » John Harvey-Jones, English businessman and television host (b. 1924)
• 2008 » Johnny Grant, American radio host and producer (b. 1923)
• 2009 » Rob Gauntlett, English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1987)
• 2009 » T. Llew Jones, Welsh author and poet (b. 1914)
• 2011 » Makinti Napanangka, Australian painter (b. 1930)

• 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 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 16.4 million citizens.
• February 13 » Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
• February 23 » A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam, marking the first operational loss of a B-2.
• April 30 » Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.
• May 30 » TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín International Airport, killing five people.
• August 30 » A Conviasa Boeing 737 crashes into Illiniza Volcano in Ecuador, killing all three people on board.
• October 3 » The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.

The temperature on January 9, 2008 was between 4.6 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.