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• Emma Laura Aasberg Larsen, Hovedstaden, Staden Kobenhavn (City), Denemarken

• Doris Lorene Swanson (71), 2609 Howard Road of Russell, PA
• Antonia (Anna\An) van Hoof (92), Lieshout, Brabant (North), Netherlands
• Antonia (Anna An) van Hoof (92), Lieshout, Brabant (North), Netherlands
• Cornelis Gijsbertus (Kees) Lek (84), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Josef Kuijpers (87), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Egbertus Andre Kamphuis (59)
• Carola Maria Laevaert (89), Willebroek
• Albert Oosting (62)
• Abraham Hugo Goedegebuure (74), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• * Pamela May Osbourne (61), Tasmania

• 1988 » Elías Hernández, Mexican footballer
• 1991 » Adam Smith, English footballer
• 1991 » Jung Hye-sung, South Korean actress
• 1992 » Alina Rosenberg, German Paralympic equestrian
• 1992 » Emilio Orozco, American soccer player
• 1994 » Christina Shakovets, German tennis player
• 1995 » Victoria Sinitsina, Russian ice dancer
• 1996 » Katherine Langford, Australian actress
• 1998 » Kimberly Birrell, Australian tennis player
• 2007 » Infanta Sofía of Spain, Spanish princess

• 2006 » John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, United States Ambassador to India (b. 1908)
• 2007 » Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player (b. 1940)
• 2007 » Ivica Račan, Croatian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
• 2007 » Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b. 1978)
• 2007 » Milt Bocek, American baseball player and soldier (b. 1912)
• 2008 » Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic (b. 1906)
• 2008 » Chuck Daigh, American race car driver (b. 1923)
• 2010 » Sandy Douglas, English computer scientist and academic, designed OXO (b. 1921)
• 2011 » Joanna Russ, American writer, academic and radical feminist (b. 1937)
• 2011 » Siamak Pourzand, Iranian journalist and critic (b. 1931)

• 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 » Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction of several corruption charges, including the alleged solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as a replacement for then-U.S. president-elect Barack Obama.
• 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.
• April 12 » Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency.
• June 19 » War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
• July 5 » A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
• July 26 » The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.

The temperature on April 29, 2009 was between 2.4 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.