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• Nora ten Boske, Elst, Gelderland, Nederland († 2009)

• Cornelis Johannes Peters (80)
• Albert Jan Enderink (79), Harfsen
• Aly Bodde (86)
• Arie Paap (94), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia de Leeuw (93), Putten
• Dorothy Audrey Joan Cadley (78), Leicester, Leicestershire, England
• A.H(Toon) Meijer (79), Albergen (Tubbergen)
• Christian Anthonius Adrianus Knippers (77), Nieuwegein, Nederland
• Cecelia Bloem (93), Weslaco Hidalgo County Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Leferink (84), Berkel-Enschot

• 1991 » Devon Travis, American baseball player
• 1991 » Ji So-yun, South Korean footballer
• 1991 » Joe Alwyn, English actor
• 1991 » Riyad Mahrez, Algerian footballer
• 1993 » Davy Klaassen, Dutch footballer
• 1993 » Masaki Suda, Japanese actor
• 1993 » Steve Leo Beleck, Cameroonian footballer
• 1994 » Charalampos Mavrias, Greek footballer
• 1994 » Tang Haochen, Chinese tennis player
• 1996 » Sophie Turner, English actress

• 2004 » John Charles, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1931)
• 2005 » Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban author, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1929)
• 2005 » Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor (b. 1929)
• 2008 » Ben Chapman, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2011 » Bernard Nathanson, American physician and activist (b. 1926)
• 2011 » Dwayne McDuffie, American author and screenwriter, co-founded Milestone Media (b. 1962)
• 2012 » H. M. Darmstandler, American general (b. 1922)
• 2013 » Hasse Jeppson, Swedish footballer (b. 1925)
• 2014 » Héctor Maestri, Cuban-American baseball player (b. 1935)
• 2014 » Matthew Robinson, Australian snowboarder (b. 1985)

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. 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 20 » A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start.
• March 11 » Winnenden school shooting: Sixteen are killed and 11 are injured before recent-graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany.
• March 21 » Four police officers are shot and killed and a fifth is wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California.
• June 8 » Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
• June 18 » The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
• October 10 » Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to normalize relations. However, they are never ratified by either side.

The temperature on February 21, 2009 was between 3.1 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (14%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.