About the day » Tuesday March 5, 2002Calender converter

• Sophie van Wieren († 2002)
• Milan Albert Willem Mentink, Hengelo
• Thijs († 2002)
• Kevin Mike van der Heide († 2004)

• Barbara de Cocq van Delwijnen (81), Maasdriel
• Cornelia Groeneveld (86), Apeldoorn
• Alice Sarah Maria Coghlan (101), Bundoora(VIC, Australië)
• Charles S. Goodman (90)
• Alouisius Pharaildus van Waesberghe (89), Hulst,, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus Hendricus van GOOL (96), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andre Raymond DHENNIN (77), Lille,59000,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE
• Anna Muis (76), Hengelo
• Adrianus Antonius van Meer (92), Zevenbergen
• Aaltje Vonder (80), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1993 » El Hadji Ba, French footballer
• 1993 » Joshua Coyne, American violinist and composer
• 1994 » Daria Gavrilova, Russian-Australian tennis player
• 1994 » Kyle Schwarber, American baseball player
• 1996 » Emmanuel Mudiay, Congolese basketball player
• 1996 » Taylor Hill, American model
• 1997 » Milena Venega, Cuban rower
• 1998 » Bo Bichette, American baseball player
• 1999 » Madison Beer, American singer, songwriter and producer.
• 2007 » Roman Griffin Davis, British actor, second youngest Golden Globe recipient.

• 1995 » Vivian Stanshall, English singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1943)
• 1996 » Whit Bissell, American character actor (b. 1909)
• 1997 » Jean Dréville, French director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1997 » Samm Sinclair Baker, American writer (b. 1909)
• 1999 » Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Lolo Ferrari, French dancer, actress and singer (b. 1963)
• 2005 » David Sheppard, English cricketer and bishop (b. 1929)
• 2008 » Joseph Weizenbaum, German computer scientist and author (b. 1923)
• 2010 » Charles B. Pierce, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• 2010 » Richard Stapley, British actor and writer (b. 1923)

1. Thomas
2. Lucas
3. Daan
4. Lars
5. Ruben
6. Tim
7. David
8. Thijs
9. Jan
10. Jens
11. Tom
12. Robin
13. Niels
14. Luuk
15. Rens
16. Stijn

1. Amber
2. Lisa
3. Femke
4. Anna
5. Emma
6. Sanne
7. Julia
8. Eloise
9. Eva
10. Laura
11. Sarah
12. Isabella
13. Anne
14. Fleur
15. Iris
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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
• January 28 » TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 94.
• March 30 » 2002 Lyon car attack takes place.
• April 26 » Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
• November 22 » In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
• November 28 » Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air missiles.
• December 23 » A U.S. MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25 in the first combat engagement between a drone and conventional aircraft.

The temperature on March 5, 2002 was between 3.6 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (32%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.