About the day » Tuesday August 11, 2009Calender converter

• Anna den Boer (93), Voorburg
• Cornelis Hendrikus Petrus Smulders (89), Cuijk, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Cornelia Nieuwstraten (94), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bessie Irene West Hornbeak [KsObBu] (95), Greenfield, Weakley County, Tennessee
• Evertje ( Eef ) van de Werfhorst (62), Gemeente Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonius Hendricus (Anton) (3k) Siepe (83), Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
• Dora van Veldhuizen (85), Lakewood, LA cvounty, California, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Gerardus Johannes Bastianen (63), Goirle
• Albertina Barros de Andrade (81)
• Clasina Maria Schadé (101)

• 1988 » Patty Mills, Australian basketball player
• 1988 » Rabeh Al-Hussaini, Filipino basketball player
• 1989 » Junior Heffernan, Irish cyclist and triathlete († 2013)
• 1989 » Sebastian Huke, German footballer
• 1990 » Lenka Juríková, Slovak tennis player
• 1991 » Cristian Tello, Spanish footballer
• 1994 » Anton Cooper, New Zealand cross-country cyclist
• 1994 » Joseph Barbato, French footballer
• 1994 » Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player
• 1997 » Sarah Clelland, Scottish footballer

• 2006 » Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1920)
• 2008 » Dursun Karataş, founding leader of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front (DHKP-C) in Turkey (b. 1952)
• 2008 » George Furth, American actor and playwright (b. 1932)
• 2009 » Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, founded the Special Olympics (b. 1921)
• 2012 » Lucy Gallardo, Argentinian-Mexican actress and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2012 » Michael Dokes, American boxer (b. 1958)
• 2012 » Red Bastien, American wrestler, trainer, and promoter (b. 1931)
• 2013 » David Howard, English ballet dancer and educator (b. 1937)
• 2013 » Raymond Delisle, French cyclist (b. 1943)
• 2013 » Zafar Futehally, Indian ornithologist and author (b. 1919)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• June 9 » An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
• 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 1 » The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
• December 28 » Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.

The temperature on August 11, 2009 was between 15.1 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.