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• Tim Van Vlaanderen, Volendam († 2012)

• Franciscus Adrianus Leonardus Daris (74), Westerhoven (gemeente Bergeijk)
• Betty Lou Boevers (74), Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa
• Francis Milton Gedstad (85), Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
• Annie Dols (79)
• Carla Verheij (63), Wateringen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Audrey Joy ?
• Blanche Fraticola (87), Oostnieuwkerke
• Anna Maria Rijpert (96), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Berend Johannes Zweverink (79)
• Elisabeth Johanna Buwalda (75), Leeuwarden

• 1989 » Bryce Gibbs, Australian footballer
• 1989 » Gil Roberts, American sprinter
• 1989 » Sam Baldock, English footballer
• 1989 » Sandro, Brazilian international footballer, midfielder
• 1990 » Siobhan Magnus, American singer-songwriter
• 1991 » Kurt Baptiste, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Tavon Austin, American footballer
• 1991 » Xavier Henry, American basketball player
• 1996 » Seonaid McIntosh, Scottish sports shooter
• 2000 » Kristian Kostov, Russian-Bulgarian singer-songwriter

• 2007 » Bowie Kuhn, American lawyer and businessman (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Charles Harrelson, American murderer (b. 1938)
• 2007 » Stuart Rosenberg, American director and producer (b. 1927)
• 2008 » G. David Low, American astronaut and engineer (b. 1956)
• 2008 » Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
• 2008 » Mikey Dread, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1954)
• 2008 » Sarla Thakral, First Indian woman to earn a pilot's license. (b. 1914)
• 2008 » Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1951)
• 2009 » Ron Silver, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1946)
• 2011 » Nate Dogg, American rapper (b. 1969)

1. Sebastiaan
2. Jesse
3. Thijs
4. Daan
5. Lucas
6. Ruben
7. Thomas
8. Tobias
9. Levi
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 15 » US Airways Flight 1549 ditches safely in the Hudson River after the plane collides with birds less than two minutes after take-off.
• April 30 » Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• June 30 » Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on board. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari survives the crash.
• October 3 » Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join together in the Turkic Council.
• October 10 » Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to normalize relations. However, they are never ratified by either side.
• 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 March 15, 2009 was between 6.1 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.