About the day » Wednesday February 25, 2009Calender converter

• Alke Ellen (Ellen) Grooten (41)
• Burnetta Leona Gerber (93), USA Stewartsville Olmsted County Minnesota
• Cornelis Postma (85), Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Jan Cromwijk (76), EDE, GD, NL
• Agatha Catharina Koning (94), De Goorn, Koggenland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bote van der Wal (81), Leeuwarden
• Carl R Shankweiler (82), Whitehall, Lehigh, Pennsylvania
• August Diederich Marinus Daggelders (84), Almkerk
• Dirk Kooij (80), Leeuwarden
• ? Solange

• 1963 » Paul O'Neill, American baseball player and sportscaster; five-time World Series champion
• 1967 » Ed Balls, British politician; Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1968 » Oumou Sangaré, Grammy Award-winning Malian Wassoulou musician
• 1971 » Sean Astin, American actor, director and producer
• 1974 » Dominic Raab, British politician; First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• 1981 » Park Ji-sung, South Korean footballer; the most successful Asian player with 19 career trophies
• 1982 » Flavia Pennetta, Italian tennis player; winner of the 2015 US Open
• 1988 » Tom Marshall, British photo colouriser and artist
• 1992 » Jorge Soler, Cuban baseball player
• 1999 » Gianluigi Donnarumma, Italian international footballer; youngest goalkeeper to play for Italy

• 1998 » W. O. Mitchell, Canadian author and playwright (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 2001 » A. R. Ammons, American poet and critic (b. 1926)
• 2001 » Don Bradman, Australian international cricketer; holder of world record batting average (b. 1908)
• 2005 » Peter Benenson, English lawyer, founded Amnesty International (b. 1921)
• 2008 » Hans Raj Khanna, Indian judge and advocate; upholder of civil liberties (b. 1912)
• 2010 » Ihsan Dogramaci, Turkish pediatrician and academic (b. 1915)
• 2012 » Louisiana Red, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932)
• 2015 » Eugenie Clark, American biologist and academic; noted ichthyologist (b. 1922)
• 2015 » Harve Bennett, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1930)

1. Sebastiaan
2. Jesse
3. Thijs
4. Daan
5. Lucas
6. Ruben
7. Thomas
8. Tobias
9. Levi
10. Tim
11. Jan
12. Mitchel
13. Lars
14. Jayden
15. Luuk
16. Milan

1. Emma
2. Lieke
3. Anna
4. Sophie
5. Babette
6. Julia
7. Sanne
8. Eva
9. Anne
10. Lisa
11. Noor
12. Charlotte
13. Isa
14. Evi
15. Delphine
16. Lotte

• 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 16.5 million citizens.
• January 8 » A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.
• January 20 » A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start.
• January 26 » Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.
• June 1 » Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.
• June 12 » A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and international protests.
• September 30 » The 7.6 M_w  Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.

The temperature on February 25, 2009 was between 2.5 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.