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• Charlotte Dieudonée Maria Rijnbout, Nieuwegein († 2003)

• Akke HAK (81), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Nieuwenhuijzen (76), Delft
• Antonia Augustina Bosch (80), Valleyfield, Quebec, Canada
• Adriaan Constant de Kanter (98), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Hendricus Geutjes (1989), Brummen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonius Franciscus Frissen (62), Arnhem
• Caterina Alias (82), Olbia
• Adrie Dekkers (84), TILBURG, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berend van de Wetering (64), Ede
• Carolynn Ruth LOPER (PACE) (69), Hospital In Vallejo, Ca

• 1986 » Kit Harington, English actor
• 1989 » Yohan Blake, Jamaican sprinter
• 1990 » Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
• 1990 » Andy Biersack, American singer-songwriter
• 1990 » Denis Cheryshev, Russian footballer
• 1990 » Jon Bellion, American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer
• 1991 » Eden Sher, American actress
• 1992 » Cecilia Costa Melgar, Chilean tennis player
• 1992 » Jade Thirlwall, English singer
• 1994 » Souleymane Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer

• 2001 » Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (b. 1929)
• 2002 » Armand Zildjian, American businessman, founded the Avedis Zildjian Company (b. 1921)
• 2002 » Herb Ritts, American photographer and director (b. 1952)
• 2003 » Virginia Coffey, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
• 2004 » Angus Ogilvy, English businessman (b. 1928)
• 2004 » Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African surgeon and academic (b. 1959)
• 2004 » Mieszko Talarczyk, Polish-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1974)
• 2004 » Reggie White, American football player and wrestler (b. 1961)
• 2004 » Sigurd Køhn, Norwegian saxophonist and composer (b. 1959)
• 2004 » Troy Broadbridge, Australian footballer (b. 1980)

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

1. Emma
2. Isa
3. Maria
4. Lisa
5. Anna
6. Lieke
7. Anne
8. Laura
9. Catharina-amalia
10. Nina
11. Julia
12. Femke
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.
• February 18 » Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.
• March 6 » Air Algérie Flight 6289 crashes at the Aguenar – Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport in Tamanrasset, Algeria, killing 102 out of the 103 people on board.
• July 22 » Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard.
• November 14 » Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
• December 23 » PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
• December 29 » The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.

The temperature on December 26, 2003 was between 6.1 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.