About the day » Monday August 3, 2009Calender converter

• Fem Van Gulik, Vlaardingen († 2009)

• Ellen Jeanne Wichers (89), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Elwin Harry** ANDERSON (94), Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, Verenigde Staten
• Anke (Ankje) Kooistra (98), Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Epke Baarda (67), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• * Hendrika Gerarda (Gerry) Kiela (83), Sandy
• Emiel Claus (62), Brunssum
• Cornelia Elisabeth Bruens (94), Doetinchem
• Dreesje van Beekhuizen (94), Velp
• Carmen Luisa Adela Nadal Gomila (94), Terrassa, Spanje
• Diana Greefkes (48)

• 1992 » Aljon Mariano, Filipino basketball player
• 1992 » Diāna Marcinkēviča, Latvian tennis player
• 1992 » Gamze Bulut, Turkish runner
• 1992 » Gesa Felicitas Krause, German runner
• 1993 » Ola Abidogun, English sprinter
• 1993 » Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer
• 1994 » Manaia Cherrington, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1994 » Todd Gurley, American football player
• 1995 » Victoria Kan, Russian tennis player
• 1999 » Yoo Yeon-jung, South Korean singer

• 2006 » Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1945)
• 2007 » John Gardner, English author (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Peter Thorup, Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1948)
• 2008 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, dramatist and historian, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2008 » Erik Darling, American singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
• 2008 » Skip Caray, American sportscaster (b. 1939)
• 2009 » Nikolaos Makarezos, Greek soldier and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
• 2010 » Bobby Hebb, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
• 2011 » Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (b. 1945)
• 2011 » William Sleator, American author (b. 1945)

• 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.
• June 10 » James Wenneker von Brunn, who was 88-years-old, opened fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shot Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended.
• 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.
• August 17 » An accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area.
• August 26 » Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard is discovered alive in California after being missing for over 18 years.
• August 27 » Internal conflict in Myanmar: The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.

The temperature on August 3, 2009 was between 9.0 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.