In context
- When
- Thursday, October 15 200917 years ago
- Category
- DeathA notable person who died on this day.
- Era
- 21st century · 2000s
- Recorded from
- Wikipedia “On this day” feed
- Person
- Heinz Versteeg
Who they were
Heinz Versteeg was a Dutch professional footballer active primarily in Germany. Versteeg played as a striker for Meidericher SV and Hamborn 07.
Why this date
Heinz Versteeg appears on our October 15 calendar for 2009 as a death entry.
October 15 through the years
Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.
- 20062006 Kiholo Bay earthquake
- 2006Seismic magnitude scales
- 20072007 New Zealand police raids
- 2007New Zealand Police
- 2008Dow Jones Industrial Average
- 2009Heinz Versteeg
- 201115 October 2011 global protests
- 2013Seismic magnitude scales
- 20132013 Bohol earthquake
- 2016Montreal Protocol
- 2018Kidnapping of Jayme Closs
Also in 2009
- May 11IraqAn American soldier in Iraq opens fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Baghdad, killing five other US soldiers and wounding three.
- May 11Space Shuttle AtlantisSpace Shuttle Atlantis is launched on the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
- September 9Dubai MetroThe Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
- September 18CBS StudiosAfter 72 years on radio and television, CBS Television broadcasts the final episode of Guiding Light, the longest-running soap opera in A…
- November 17University of East AngliaAdministrators at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit discovered that their servers had been hacked, and thousands of…
- May 252009 North Korean nuclear testNorth Korea conducted a nuclear test and several other missile tests that were widely condemned internationally and led to sanctions from…
- May 25North KoreaNorth Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device, after which Pyongyang also conducts several missile tests, building tensions in th…
- August 10HandlováTwenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
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“Heinz Versteeg”, What's On This Date, https://whatsonthisdate.com/app/event/heinz-versteeg-2009-october-15, accessed October 29, 2026.
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October 15 2009 — 17 years ago, on a Thursday.
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