About the day » Sunday May 17, 2009Calender converter

• Carol Mae Kuiken (58)
• Charles Wesley Moseley (84), Texas, United States
• Frans den Houdijker (56)
• Anna Theresia Onneweer (81), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dorothy May Richardson (84)
• Amelie Eerdekens (97), Gerolstein (Duitsland)
• Driesje Veldhoen (86), Zwolle, Nederland
• Bettino RICASOLI FIRIDOLFI (87), Florence,50100,Firenze,Toscana,ITALIE
• Cornelisje van Huenestein (81), Hierden
• Anna Geziena Emming (97)

• 1989 » Mose Masoe, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1989 » Rain Raadik, Estonian basketball player
• 1989 » Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer
• 1990 » Charlie Gubb, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 » Fabian Giefer, German footballer
• 1990 » Guido Pella, Argentine tennis player
• 1990 » Katrina Hart, English runner
• 1991 » Abigail Raye, Canadian field hockey player
• 1991 » Adil Omar, Pakistani rapper and music producer
• 1991 » Johanna Konta, Australian-English tennis player

• 2006 » Cy Feuer, American director, producer, and composer (b. 1911)
• 2007 » Lloyd Alexander, American soldier and author (b. 1924)
• 2007 » T. K. Doraiswamy, Indian poet and author (b. 1921)
• 2009 » Jung Seung-hye, South Korean journalist and producer (b. 1965)
• 2009 » Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist, author, and poet (b. 1920)
• 2010 » Walasse Ting, Chinese-American painter and poet (b. 1929)
• 2010 » Yvonne Loriod, French pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1924)
• 2011 » Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1936)
• 2012 » Gideon Ezra, Israeli geographer and politician, Israeli Minister in the Prime Minister's Office (b. 1937)
• 2012 » Patrick Mafisango, Congolese-Rwandan footballer (b. 1980)

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

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

• 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 20 » A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start.
• February 10 » The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
• April 7 » Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
• April 9 » In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
• June 12 » A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and international protests.
• December 30 » A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.

The temperature on May 17, 2009 was between 10.0 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 12.8 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.