About the day » Friday October 2, 2009Calender converter

• Anna Cornelia (Cor) Labrie (91)
• Cornelius Petrus Holierhoek (83), Almere
• Allan James CLARKE (90)
• Fernand Henri Lagast (67), Brugge-Assebroek
• Fred James Abel (82), Yelm, Thurston, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Augustinus Petrus Joannes Carolus Saenen (89)
• Frans Herman WALTA (60)
• Adrie van Diggele (72)
• Eesje Riessen van ongehuwd (88), Veenendaal, Utr, Nederland
• Dorothy May MATTHEWS (85), St Giles Hospice, Whittington

• 1991 » Roberto Firmino, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Sirje Roops, Estonian footballer
• 1993 » Aaro Vainio, Finnish race car driver
• 1993 » Michy Batshuayi, Belgian footballer
• 1994 » Joana Eidukonytė, Lithuanian tennis player
• 1995 » Te Maire Martin, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1995 » Tepai Moeroa, Cook Islands rugby league player
• 1996 » Tom Trbojevic, Australian rugby league player
• 1997 » Hana Sugisaki, Japanese actress
• 2002 » Jacob Sartorius, American singer

• 2006 » Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
• 2006 » Paul Halmos, Hungarian-American mathematician (b. 1916)
• 2007 » Christopher Derrick, English author and critic (b. 1921)
• 2007 » Dan Keating, Irish Republican Army volunteer (b. 1902)
• 2007 » George Grizzard, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2007 » Tawn Mastrey, American radio host and producer (b. 1954)
• 2007 » Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
• 2010 » Kwa Geok Choo, Singaporean lawyer and scholar (b. 1920)
• 2011 » Peter L. Benson, American psychologist and academic (b. 1946)
• 2012 » Nguyễn Chí Thiện, Vietnamese-American poet and activist (b. 1939)

• 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 24 » Cyclone Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France, causing 26 deaths as well as extensive disruptions to public transport and power supplies.
• July 5 » A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
• September 26 » Typhoon Ketsana hits the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.
• October 28 » The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
• December 3 » A suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
• December 30 » A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000l (40,000USgal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.

The temperature on October 2, 2009 was between 9.2 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.