About the day » Wednesday August 19, 2009Calender converter

• Cornelia Willems van den Oever (73), Katwijk
• Éléonore de Bavière (90)
• Evertje Hol (87), Ede, Gld, NL
• "Eleonore" Therese Marie Josepha Gabriele von Bayern (90)
• Bernice Blanche Decuir (92), Hawthorne, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Erich Matt (84)
• Cornelia van den Oever (73), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elizabeth M "Betty" Wrafter (67), Tullamore, Offaly, Ireland
• Alphonsus Bernardus Tuijtelaars (65), Baarle-Nassau
• Dina Versloot (65), rotterdam (zuid holland)

• 1988 » Hoodie Allen, American rapper
• 1988 » Kirk Cousins, American football player
• 1988 » Veronica Roth, American author
• 1989 » Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper, actor
• 1990 » Danny Galbraith, Scottish footballer
• 1994 » Fernando Gaviria, Colombian cyclist
• 1994 » Guadalupe Pérez Rojas, Argentinian tennis player
• 1994 » Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete and heptathlete
• 1995 » Dylan Phythian, Australian rugby league player
• 1996 » Hsu Ching-wen, Taiwanese tennis player

• 2005 » Mo Mowlam, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1949)
• 2008 » Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Zambia (b. 1948)
• 2009 » Don Hewitt, American television producer, created 60 Minutes (b. 1922)
• 2011 » Raúl Ruiz, Chilean director and producer (b. 1941)
• 2012 » Donal Henahan, American journalist and critic (b. 1921)
• 2012 » Edmund Skellings, American poet and academic (b. 1932)
• 2012 » Ivar Iversen, Norwegian canoe racer (b. 1914)
• 2012 » Tony Scott, English-American director and producer (b. 1944)
• 2013 » Musa'id bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian prince (b. 1923)
• 2013 » Russell S. Doughten, American director and producer (b. 1927)

• 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 26 » Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.
• June 9 » An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
• June 21 » Greenland assumes self-rule.
• July 4 » The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
• October 3 » Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join together in the Turkic Council.
• December 8 » Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill 127 people and injure 448 others.

The temperature on August 19, 2009 was between 13.3 °C and 29.6 °C and averaged 21.0 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.