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• Maartje Sophie Onderdelinden

• Antonius Johannes (Antoon) van Wijk (78), Utrechtse Heuvelrug, Utrecht, Nederland
• Hendrika Veltkamp (90)
• Cornelis Poot (72)
• Hendrikus Marinus Cornelis Schuurmans (62), Nuland
• Hendrika Johanna van Streun (61), Delfzijl
• Hendrika Jeannette Vrielink (46)
• Antje Jager (60), Veendam
• Hendrika Johanna (Rita) van Streun (61), Delfzijl, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelis Uitenbroek (82), Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Frankrijk
• Hendrikje Gerrits (91), Radewijk

• 1985 » Eleanor Catton, Canadian-New Zealand author
• 1985 » Eric Adjetey Anang, Ghanaian sculptor and carpenter
• 1987 » Gürhan Gürsoy, Turkish footballer
• 1987 » Matthew Connolly, English footballer
• 1988 » Karl Alzner, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Pia Wurtzbach, Filipina actress, model, and Miss Universe 2015 titleholder
• 1991 » Maximiliano Uggè, Italian footballer
• 1991 » Oriol Romeu, Spanish footballer
• 1993 » Ben Platt, American actor
• 1997 » Tosin Adarabioyo, English Footballer

• 2004 » Françoise Sagan, French author and screenwriter (b. 1935)
• 2006 » Michael Ferguson, PIRA volunteer, lawyer, and politician (b. 1953)
• 2006 » Phil Latulippe, Canadian soldier and runner (b. 1909)
• 2008 » Irene Dailey, American actress (b. 1920)
• 2008 » Mickey Vernon, American baseball player and coach (b. 1918)
• 2008 » Oliver Crawford, American screenwriter and author (b. 1917)
• 2009 » Nelly Arcan, Canadian author (b. 1975)
• 2010 » Gennady Yanayev, Russian engineer and politician, Vice President of the Soviet Union (b. 1937)
• 2012 » Bruno Bobak, Polish-Canadian painter and educator (b. 1923)
• 2012 » Pierre Adam, French cyclist (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.
• April 20 » Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
• May 12 » U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
• June 9 » Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.
• July 1 » Riots erupt in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
• July 2 » Colombian conflict: Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC.
• August 30 » A Conviasa Boeing 737 crashes into Illiniza Volcano in Ecuador, killing all three people on board.

The temperature on September 24, 2008 was between 9.4 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.