About the day » Tuesday March 8, 2016Calender converter

• MicKenzie Janella Brochtrup, Neenah, Winnebago county, Wisconsin (USA)

• Agnes Wilhelmina Maria (Agnes) RUIVENKAMP (96), Blaricum, gemeente Blaricum, provincie Noord-Holland
• Annie Brokers (73), Deventer
• Arend KOOPMAN (71), Deventer, Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelis Pothoven (83)
• Agnes, Wilhelmina, Maria Ruivenkamp (96)
• Anna Cornelia Huberta Moorren (93), Horst, LI Netherlands
• Eleanor P Terpstra (86), Norwood, US-MA
• Cornelia Catharina Bakkum (80), Alkmaar
• Dirkje Broekhuizen (84), Schoten (België)
• Franciscus Carolus Verhoeven (84), Sittard, Limburg, Nederland

• 1990 » Asier Illarramendi, Spanish footballer
• 1990 » Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player
• 1991 » Miriam Bryant, Swedish-Finnish singer-songwriter
• 1991 » Tom English, Australian rugby player
• 1992 » Uki Satake, Japanese singer, actress, and radio host
• 1994 » Claire Emslie, Scottish footballer
• 1994 » Dylan Tombides, Australian footballer († 2014)
• 1994 » Pablo Dyego, Brazilian footballer
• 1996 » Matthew Hammelmann, Australian rules footballer
• 1998 » Tali Darsigny, Canadian weightlifter

• 2013 » Haseeb Ahsan, Pakistani cricketer and manager (b. 1939)
• 2013 » John O'Connell, Irish journalist and politician, 17th Irish Minister of Health (b. 1927)
• 2014 » Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American Holocaust survivor and author (b. 1921)
• 2014 » William Guarnere, American sergeant (b. 1923)
• 2015 » Sam Simon, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1955)
• 2015 » Tjol Lategan, South African rugby player (b. 1925)
• 2016 » Aldo Ferrer, Argentinian economist and diplomat (b. 1927)
• 2016 » George Martin, English composer, conductor, and producer (b. 1926)
• 2016 » Ross Hannaford, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
• 2018 » Kate Wilhelm, American author (b. 1928)

1. Lucas
2. Benjamin
3. Tijn
4. Jan
5. Max
6. Levi
7. Boaz
8. Mats
9. Jesse
10. Alexander
11. Oscar
12. Noah
13. Jacob
14. Thijs
15. Ruben
16. Liam

1. Emma
2. Sophie
3. Nora
4. Olivia
5. Charlotte
6. Eva
7. Mila
8. Sara
9. Zoë
10. Femke
11. Isa
12. Feline
13. Julia
14. Lola
15. Ella
16. Anna

• 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 17.0 million citizens.
• March 19 » Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land at Rostov-on-Don international airport, killing all 62 on board.
• June 12 » Forty-nine civilians are killed and 58 others injured in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida; the gunman, Omar Mateen, is killed in a gunfight with police.
• September 19 » In the wake of a manhunt, the suspect in a series of bombings in New York and New Jersey is apprehended after a shootout with police.
• October 9 » The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack on Myanmar security forces along the Bangladesh–Myanmar border.
• December 22 » A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine against the Ebola virus between 70-100% effective, and thus making it the first proven vaccine against the disease.
• December 25 » A Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 carrying members of the Alexandrov Ensemble crashes into the Black Sea shortly after takeoff, killing all 92 people on board.

The temperature on March 8, 2016 was between -2.2 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (46%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.