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• Betske (Betty) Boksma (83), Emmen
• Alida Jantje Berk (82), Heerde Gelderland Nederland
• Cornelis Jacobus Nicolaas Nulkes (79), Sassenheim
• Edna Suzanne Baxter (86), Libertyville, Illinois
• Elisabeth Maria (Bep) Balm (94), Driehuis-Velsen
• Charmian Rachel Montagu-Douglas-Scott (66)
• Cornelia Aarnoutse (91), Vlissingen, Walcheren, NL
• Donald A Hentges (83), Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
• Antonius M.Th Hofkens (79), Breda
• Berendina (Dien) Bulsink (90), Aalten

• 1995 » Sei Muroya, Japanese footballer
• 1995 » Viliame Kikau, Fijian rugby league player
• 1996 » Nicolas Beer, Danish race car driver
• 1996 » Raouf Benguit, Algerian footballer
• 1997 » Borja Mayoral, Spanish footballer
• 1998 » Jeremy Olson
• 1999 » Andrea Buwalda
• 2000 » Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Indian actor
• 2001 » Thylane Blondeau, French model and actress
• 2002 » Elian Kerrniqi, Amore HEKSIII

• 2007 » Leela Majumdar, Indian author and academic (b. 1908)
• 2007 » Maria Gripe, Swedish journalist and author (b. 1923)
• 2007 » Mark St. John, American guitarist (b. 1956)
• 2007 » Thomas Stoltz Harvey, American pathologist (b. 1912)
• 2007 » Werner Maser, German historian and journalist (b. 1922)
• 2008 » Charlton Heston, American actor, director, and political activist (b. 1923)
• 2009 » I. J. Good, British mathematician (b. 1916)
• 2010 » Vitaly Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut and engineer (b. 1935)
• 2011 » Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African politician (b. 1937)
• 2011 » Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician and geneticist (b. 1925)

• 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 1 » Sixty-six people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
• February 12 » Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.
• 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.
• April 30 » Seven civilians and the perpetrator are killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.
• June 5 » After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.
• September 24 » The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance.

The temperature on April 5, 2009 was between 6.3 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.