About the day » Sunday February 1, 2009Calender converter

• Alfons Belis (93), Schelle, 2627, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Antje Jager (90), Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Brigitte SEGERS (73), Hasselt,3500,Limbourg,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Dirk Boer (78), Vlaardingen
• Cornelis Hendricus Heskes (91), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alfred Walter Kime (88)
• Antonia Adriana Vermeij (74), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelis Antonius Hereijgers (87), Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Aukema (82), Hoofddorp
• Alberdina ter Welle (91), Markelo

• 1987 » Austin Jackson, American baseball player
• 1987 » Moises Henriques, Portuguese-Australian cricketer
• 1987 » Ronda Rousey, American mixed martial artist and actress
• 1987 » Sebastian Boenisch, Polish footballer
• 1988 » Brett Anderson, American baseball player
• 1989 » Ricky Pinheiro, Portuguese footballer
• 1991 » Kyle Palmieri, American hockey player
• 1993 » Diego Mella, Italian footballer
• 1994 » Harry Styles, English singer-songwriter
• 1994 » Joe Boyce, Australian rugby league player

• 2004 » Suha Arın, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1942)
• 2005 » John Vernon, Canadian-American actor (b. 1932)
• 2007 » Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-American playwright and composer (b. 1911)
• 2008 » Beto Carrero, Brazilian actor and businessman (b. 1937)
• 2012 » Don Cornelius, American television host and producer (b. 1936)
• 2012 » Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
• 2013 » Cecil Womack, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
• 2013 » Ed Koch, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 105th Mayor of New York City (b. 1924)
• 2013 » Helene Hale, American politician (b. 1918)
• 2013 » Shanu Lahiri, Indian painter and educator (b. 1928)

• 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 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.
• March 4 » The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
• May 1 » Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
• May 25 » North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device, after which Pyongyang also conducts several missile tests, building tensions in the international community.
• August 10 » Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
• August 27 » Internal conflict in Myanmar: The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.

The temperature on February 1, 2009 was between -2.5 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.