About the day » Monday August 31, 2009Calender converter

• Linn Margriet SMITHUIS, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Griffin Joseph van der Ploeg, Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa († 2009)

• Bertus Baartman (78), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Coen Boekhout (74), Bilthoven
• Adrianus de Lange (77), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bastiaantje Meijdam (92), IJsselstein
• Arthur-Théodore D'HOEST (82), Brugge, 99
• Carolina (Lien) van Geest (83), Naaldwijk, Nederland
• Berdina Wilhelmina Gerrits
• Aura Jo Rene Groen (62)
• Antonia Theodora (Dorothy) de Goeij (78), Netherlands
• Donald William Mulder (92), Rochester, Olmsted, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten

• 1990 » Tadeja Majerič, Slovenian tennis player
• 1991 » António Félix da Costa, Portuguese race car driver
• 1991 » Cédric Soares, Portuguese footballer
• 1992 » Holly Earl, British actress
• 1992 » Tyler Randell, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Anna Karnaukh, Russian water polo player
• 1993 » Ilnur Alshin, Russian football player
• 1993 » Pablo Marí, Spanish football player
• 1994 » Alex Harris, Scottish footballer
• 1994 » Can Aktav, Turkish football player

• 2006 » Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)
• 2006 » Tom Delaney, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1911)
• 2007 » Gay Brewer, American golfer (b. 1932)
• 2007 » Jean Jacques Paradis, Canadian general (b. 1928)
• 2007 » Sulev Vahtre, Estonian historian and academic (b. 1926)
• 2008 » Ike Pappas, American journalist (b. 1933)
• 2008 » Ken Campbell, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
• 2008 » Victor Yates, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1939)
• 2010 » Laurent Fignon, French cyclist (b. 1960)
• 2011 » Wade Belak, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1976)

• 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 15 » US Airways Flight 1549 ditches safely in the Hudson River after the plane collides with birds less than two minutes after take-off.
• June 19 » Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
• August 10 » Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
• September 2 » The Andhra Pradesh, India helicopter crash occurred near Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles (74km) from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India. Fatalities included Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
• October 9 » First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
• 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 August 31, 2009 was between 12.0 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.