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• Robin Jan Hut, Groningen († 2003)
• Johanna Antonia Smits, Tilburg
• Robin Hut, Groningen
• Priska Izelaar, Capelle aan de Ijssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2003)

• Anna Helena Cortenbach (99), Venray
• * Franciscus Joannes Maria Tonino (97), Breda
• Aart Abraham Breebaart (81), Warmond NL
• Anna Maria Louisa PIPERS (89), Borsbeek,Provincie Antwerpen,Flanders,Belgi
• ADRIANA VAN DER WINDT (69), NIEUWERKERK AAN DEN IJSSEL
• Catharina Spits (95), West Terschelling
• Anna van Dijk (90), Bergum
• Catharina Cornelia Heemskerk (94), Noordwijkerhout, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Daniël (93)
• Aartje Mulder (85), Apeldoorn

• 1982 » Francisco Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1983 » Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
• 1985 » Lewis Hamilton, English racing driver
• 1986 » Wayne Routledge, English footballer winger
• 1987 » Davide Astori, Italian footballer († 2018)
• 1987 » Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
• 1987 » Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer
• 1990 » Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
• 1991 » Caster Semenya, South African sprinter
• 1991 » Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer

• 1998 » Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
• 1998 » Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 2000 » Gary Albright, American wrestler (b. 1963)
• 2001 » James Carr, American singer (b. 1942)
• 2002 » Avery Schreiber, American comedian and actor (b. 1935)
• 2004 » Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
• 2005 » Pierre Daninos, French author (b. 1913)
• 2006 » Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and author (b. 1912)
• 2007 » Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver and businessman (b. 1957)
• 2007 » Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic journalist, author, and academic (b. 1929)

1. Thomas
2. Daan
3. Lucas
4. Max
5. Ruben
6. Sem
7. Lars
8. Jesse
9. Mike
10. Jan
11. Sam
12. Remco
13. Niels
14. Martijn
15. Tom
16. Bram

1. Emma
2. Isa
3. Lisa
4. Maria
5. Anna
6. Anne
7. Lieke
8. Laura
9. Catharina-amalia
10. Nina
11. Femke
12. Julia
13. Iris
14. Sanne
15. Lotte
16. Amber

• 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, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.2 million citizens.
• March 16 » American activist Rachel Corrie is killed in Rafah trying to obstruct the demolition of a home by being run over by a bulldozer.
• March 17 » Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
• June 26 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
• August 27 » The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
• November 18 » The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4–3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples.
• December 26 » The 6.6 M_w  Bam earthquake shakes southeastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving more than 26,000 dead and 30,000 injured.

The temperature on January 7, 2003 was between -8.2 °C and -2.4 °C and averaged -5.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.