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• Theodorus Marius de Marie († 2009)
• Yndi Emmaneel, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland

• Gerben Holkema (79)
• Barbara June Jacobs (69)
• Anna (Anna Theodora Jacoba) Vermeer (82), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antoon Timmermans (75), Maasbree
• Cornelis Lindhout (74)
• Albert Lawrence Smith (91), Beaverton, Washington, Oregon, Verenigde Staten
• Ab de Boer (84), Uitgeest
• Betty Emma Lashley McEntyre (78), St. Bernards Medical Center, Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas
• "Véronique" Béatrice Marie Ghislaine du Parc Locmaria (52), Etterbeek, Bruxelles, Belgique
• Catharina van Barneveld (82), Meppel

• 1989 » Ken Baumann, American actor and author
• 1990 » Aleksandra Szwed, Polish actress and singer
• 1990 » Kane Williamson, New Zealand cricket captain
• 1990 » Parker Kligerman, American race car driver
• 1990 » Vladimír Darida, Czech footballer
• 1991 » Nélson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer
• 1991 » Tyrone Peachey, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 » Josip Drmić, Swiss footballer
• 1998 » Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 2000 » Félix Auger-Aliassime, Canadian tennis player

• 2005 » Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (b. 1922)
• 2007 » Ma Lik, Chinese journalist and politician (b. 1952)
• 2007 » Melville Shavelson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 2008 » Orville Moody, American golfer (b. 1933)
• 2009 » Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
• 2010 » Patricia Neal, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, German-American physicist and academic (b. 1926)
• 2012 » Kurt Maetzig, German director and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 2012 » Ruth Etchells, English poet and academic (b. 1931)
• 2012 » Surya Lesmana, Indonesian footballer and manager (b. 1944)

1. Sebastiaan
2. Jesse
3. Thijs
4. Daan
5. Lucas
6. Ruben
7. Thomas
8. Tobias
9. Levi
10. Tim
11. Jan
12. Mitchel
13. Lars
14. Jayden
15. Luuk
16. Milan

1. Emma
2. Lieke
3. Anna
4. Sophie
5. Babette
6. Julia
7. Sanne
8. Eva
9. Anne
10. Lisa
11. Noor
12. Charlotte
13. Isa
14. Evi
15. Delphine
16. Lotte

• 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.
• January 29 » The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents.
• March 21 » Four police officers are shot and killed and a fifth is wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California.
• April 7 » Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
• May 1 » Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
• September 26 » Typhoon Ketsana hits the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.

The temperature on August 8, 2009 was between 13.8 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.