About the day » Friday August 14, 2009Calender converter

• Derkine Schipper (95), Emmen
• Aaltje Vos (91), Pretoria, Zuid-Afrika
• Els Kroesen (72), Elim
• Duane Eugene Turner (55), At Home
• Cornelia Adriana van Hillo (96), Dordrecht
• Els Kroezen (71), Elim, Drenthe, Nederland
• Everdina Francisca Temminck (80), Twenterand
• Adriana (Adrie) de Groot (84), Winschoten
• Frank van der Maten (93), Camarillo, Ventura County, California
• Cornelis HONCOOP (86), Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1985 » Christian Gentner, German footballer
• 1985 » Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 » Braian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer
• 1986 » Cameron Jerome, English footballer
• 1986 » Sam Moa, Tongan-New Zealand rugby league player
• 1987 » Tim Tebow, American football and baseball player, television personality and sportscaster
• 1989 » Ander Herrera, Spanish footballer
• 1989 » Florian Abel, German footballer
• 1989 » Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1991 » Richard Freitag, German ski jumper

• 2006 » Adriaan de Groot, Dutch psychologist and chess player (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
• 2007 » Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna (b. 1940)
• 2007 » Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli politician (b. 1939)
• 2007 » Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1913)
• 2010 » Herman Leonard, American soldier and photographer (b. 1923)
• 2010 » Rallis Kopsidis, Greek painter and author (b. 1929)
• 2011 » Fritz Korbach, German footballer and manager (b. 1945)
• 2012 » Maja Bošković-Stulli, Croatian historian and academic (b. 1922)
• 2012 » Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian lawyer and politician, 14th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1945)

1. Sebastiaan
2. Jesse
3. Thijs
4. Daan
5. Lucas
6. Ruben
7. Thomas
8. Tobias
9. Levi
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 26 » Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.
• January 29 » Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction of several corruption charges, including the alleged solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as a replacement for then-U.S. president-elect Barack Obama.
• April 9 » In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
• June 1 » General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
• June 22 » A Washington D.C Metro train traveling southbound near Fort Totten station collides into another train waiting to enter the station. Nine people are killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at least 80 others are injured.
• November 5 » U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.

The temperature on August 14, 2009 was between 8.8 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.