About the day » Monday February 4, 2008Calender converter

• Elke Jansen, Breda († 2009)

• Agatha Jacobs de Graaff (96), Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands
• Cornelis van Leeuwen (91), Voorschoten
• Cornelis Zwanenburg (85), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Huberta Maria van Leeuwen (85), Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hosewol (89), Uden
• Beertje (Bep) Mouw (77), Arnhem
• Albert Norder (70), Groningen
• Adolf Penders (84), Heerlen
• Alwina Barbara Giese (90), Colorado, United States
• Christinus Marinus Hol (82), Beesd West Betuwe (GL)

• 1983 » Lee Stempniak, American ice hockey player
• 1984 » Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer
• 1984 » Sandeep Acharya, Indian singer († 2013)
• 1986 » Mahmudullah Riyad, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1986 » Maximilian Götz, German race car driver
• 1987 » Darren O'Dea, Irish footballer
• 1987 » Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player
• 1988 » Carly Patterson, American gymnast and singer
• 1993 » Bae Noo-ri, South Korean actress
• 1998 » Maximilian Wöber, Austrian footballer

• 2005 » Ossie Davis, American actor, director, and playwright (b. 1917)
• 2006 » Betty Friedan, American author and activist (b. 1921)
• 2007 » Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (b. 1934)
• 2007 » Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian-English poet and translator (b. 1959)
• 2007 » José Carlos Bauer, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1925)
• 2007 » Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
• 2008 » Augusta Dabney, American actress (b. 1918)
• 2008 » Stefan Meller, Polish academic and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (b. 1942)
• 2010 » Helen Tobias-Duesberg, Estonian-American composer (b. 1919)
• 2010 » Kostas Axelos, Greek-French philosopher and author (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 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 5 » A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
• February 24 » Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba and the Council of Ministers after 32 years. He remains as head of the Communist Party for another three years.
• March 15 » Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec, Albania, killing 26 people.
• August 18 » War of Afghanistan: Uzbin Valley ambush occurs.
• November 4 » Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
• December 11 » Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.

The temperature on February 4, 2008 was between 3.3 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.