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• Kyla Louise SCELLS, Queensland, Australia († 2010)

• Cornelis Jacobus Cor Vork (87), Amsterdam
• Blanche Carnall (90), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
• Derkje Duits (76), Barneveld
• Charles Viseur (85), Luik
• Carolina Gezina Postma (89), Geleen, Limburg, Nederland
• Aleida Thea Agatha Appeldoorn (63), Lunteren, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Eva Catharina Ehlen (78), Sittard
• Anna Leona BEAN (89)
• Aaltje Hoekstra (83), Drachten
• Eva VAN POLANEN PETEL (82), Jakarta

• 1989 » Josh Hodgson, English rugby league player
• 1989 » Warren Weir, Jamaican sprinter
• 1990 » JID, American rapper
• 1993 » Mercedes Arn-Horn, Canadian musician (Courage My Love)
• 1993 » Nadine Lustre, Filipino actress and singer
• 1995 » Joana Valle Costa, Portuguese tennis player
• 1997 » Marcus Rashford, English footballer
• 1999 » Léa Serna, French figure skater
• 2000 » Willow Smith, American singer, actress, and dancer
• 2005 » Leonor, Princess of Asturias

• 2006 » P. W. Botha, South African soldier and politician, State President of South Africa (b. 1916)
• 2007 » Erdal İnönü, Turkish physicist and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby player, sportscaster, and actor (b. 1951)
• 2008 » Studs Terkel, American historian and author (b. 1912)
• 2009 » Mustafa Mahmud, Egyptian physician and author (b. 1921)
• 2009 » Qian Xuesen, Chinese aerodynamicist and academic (b. 1911)
• 2009 » Tom Wheatcroft, English businessman, founded the Donington Grand Prix Exhibition (b. 1922)
• 2010 » Ted Sorensen, American lawyer, 8th White House Counsel (b. 1928)
• 2011 » Flórián Albert, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1941)
• 2011 » Roberto Lippi, Italian race car driver († 1926)

• 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.
• January 29 » The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents.
• June 1 » General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
• August 10 » Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
• September 2 » The Andhra Pradesh, India helicopter crash occurred near Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles (74km) from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India. Fatalities included Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
• 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 October 31, 2009 was between 8.1 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.