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• Antonius Franciscus Thoonsen (84), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Antonio Ferdinando Morreli (93), Florida
• Cecil Elroy Miller (86), Seymour, Baylor, Texas, United States
• Cornelis (Kees) de Jong (89), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Bernarda Maria (Bernadette) Leinarts (61), Schoonhoven, ZH, Nederland
• Baukje van der Wal (83)
• Arendje Jacoba van der Plas (85), Katwijk aan de Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Emma Florent van Haverbeke (75), Hamme, Ovld, Be
• Arie Hamerpagt (89), Gorinchem
• Aaltje van Aas (90), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1979 » Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 » Deadmau5 (Joel Thomas Zimmerman), Canadian musician
• 1982 » Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier
• 1984 » Derrick Atkins, Bahamian sprinter
• 1985 » Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer
• 1986 » Deepika Padukone, Indian actress
• 1988 » Azizulhasni Awang, Malaysian track cyclist
• 1988 » Luke Daniels, English footballer
• 1989 » Krisztián Németh, Hungarian footballer
• 1990 » Mark Nicholls, Australian rugby league player

• 2004 » Norman Heatley, English biologist and chemist, co-developed penicillin (b. 1911)
• 2006 » Merlyn Rees, Welsh educator and politician, Home Secretary (b. 1920)
• 2007 » Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, founded Nissin Foods (b. 1910)
• 2009 » Griffin Bell, American lawyer and politician, 72nd United States Attorney General (b. 1918)
• 2010 » Kenneth Noland, American painter (b. 1924)
• 2010 » Willie Mitchell, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer (b. 1928)
• 2012 » Frederica Sagor Maas, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 2012 » Isaac Díaz Pardo, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1920)
• 2014 » Carmen Zapata, American actress (b. 1927)
• 2014 » Eusébio, Mozambican-Portuguese footballer and manager (b. 1942)

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. Jayden
16. Milan

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

• 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.
• June 10 » James Wenneker von Brunn, who was 88-years-old, opened fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended.
• June 18 » The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
• August 17 » An accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area.
• September 26 » Typhoon Ketsana hits the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.
• October 1 » The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
• 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 January 5, 2009 was between -4.6 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged -1.2 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.