About the day » Thursday July 2, 2009Calender converter

• Darold A Nuehring (70), Manly, Worth County, Iowa
• Frederika 'Rika' Pater (63), Veenendaal, Nederland
• Antonia Cornelia Maria van den Berg (51), Noordwijkerhout
• Aaltje (Alie) Smit (63), Joure
• Dorothea Henrica Antonia Verheijen (91), Nuenen
• Cornelis van Duijn (103), Katwijk aan Zee, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Visser (91)
• Cornelis van Duijn (103), Katwijk aan Zee
• Diana Faye Kruger (67), New London, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota
• Engelbertus Cornelis Groen (62), IJmuiden

• 1990 » Danny Rose, English footballer
• 1990 » Kayla Harrison, American judoka
• 1990 » Margot Robbie, Australian actress and producer
• 1990 » Merritt Mathias, American soccer player
• 1990 » Morag McLellan, Scottish field hockey player
• 1992 » Madison Chock, American ice dancer
• 1993 » Vince Staples, American rapper and actor
• 1994 » Henrik Kristoffersen, Norwegian skier
• 1995 » Ryan Murphy, American swimmer
• 1996 » Julia Grabher, Austrian tennis player

• 2006 » Jan Murray, American comedian, actor, and game show host (b. 1916)
• 2007 » Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano and television personality (b. 1929)
• 2008 » Elizabeth Spriggs, English actress and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2008 » Natasha Shneider, Russian-American singer, keyboard player, and actress (b. 1956)
• 2010 » Beryl Bainbridge, English screenwriter and author (b. 1932)
• 2011 » Itamar Franco, Brazilian engineer and politician, 33rd President of Brazil (b. 1930)
• 2012 » Angelo Mangiarotti, Italian architect and academic (b. 1921)
• 2012 » Betty Meggers, American archaeologist and academic (b. 1921)
• 2012 » Julian Goodman, American journalist (b. 1922)
• 2012 » Maurice Chevit, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1923)

• 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.
• April 6 » A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
• July 4 » The first of four days of bombings begins on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao.
• July 5 » A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
• October 3 » Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join together in the Turkic Council.
• November 21 » A mine explosion in Heilongjiang, China kills 108.
• 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 July 2, 2009 was between 16.6 °C and 29.7 °C and averaged 23.4 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.