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Died on Thursday April 9, 2015



Born on April 9

Died on April 9
  • 2014 » Chris Banks, American football player (b. 1973)
  • 2014 » Gil Askey, American trumpet player, composer, and producer (b. 1925)
  • 2014 » Norman Girvan, Jamaican economist, academic, and politician (b. 1941)
  • 2014 » Rory Ellinger, American lawyer and politician (b. 1941)
  • 2015 » Alexander Dalgarno, English physicist and academic (b. 1928)
  • 2015 » Ivan Doig, American journalist and author (b. 1939)
  • 2015 » Margaret Rule, British marine archaeologist (b. 1928)
  • 2015 » Nina Companeez, French director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
  • 2015 » Paul Almond, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
  • 2015 » Tsien Tsuen-hsuin, Chinese-American academic (b. 1909)

Names that were popular for boys in 2015
  1. Sem
  2. Jan
  3. Max
  4. Noah
  5. Liam
  6. Lucas
  7. Thijs
  8. Thomas
  9. Jacob
  10. Julian
  11. Levi
  12. James
  13. Jack
  14. Tim
  15. Milan
  16. Siem
Names that were popular for girls in 2015
  1. Emma
  2. Charlotte
  3. Sophie
  4. Bo
  5. Noor
  6. Dana
  7. Nora
  8. Anna
  9. Lisa
  10. Ella
  11. Sarah
  12. Roos
  13. Mila
  14. Julia
  15. Lotte
  16. Tess

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 2015
  • Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
  • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
  • January 9 » The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes.
  • February 20 » Two trains collide in the Swiss town of Rafz resulting in as many as 49 people injured and Swiss Federal Railways cancelling some services.
  • May 3 » Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
  • May 19 » The Refugio oil spill deposited 142,800 U.S. gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto an area in California considered one of the most biologically diverse coastlines of the west coast.
  • November 4 » A cargo plane crashes shortly after takeoff from Juba International Airport in Juba, South Sudan, killing at least 37 people.
  • November 24 » An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead.
Weather April 9, 2015

The temperature on April 9, 2015 was between 1.9 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.

Source: KNMI