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• Vera Wechgelaer, Bredevoort
• Yoshua van Briemen, Amsterdam († 2003)
• Brecht Siemons Boonstra, Tersoal, Boarnsterhim, Fryslân, Nederland († 2003)

• Adriana Koppe (70), Dordrecht
• Dirkje van Donkelaar (88), Harderwijk
• Alfred Henry Wimmer (88), Canon City, Fremont, Colorado, Verenigde Staten
• Antonia Frederika Jansen (76), Rotterdam
• Carrie van Roekel (87), Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa
• Franciscus (Frans) Leonardus de Moor (67), Houten
• Foy Alexander Blackburn (83), San Mateo, San Mateo County, California
• Aloysius Willems (65), Oostham, Limburg, België
• Elton Clare Kerr (75), Bumpass, Louisa, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Theodora Beentjes (52), Alkmaar, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

• 1988 » Elías Hernández, Mexican footballer
• 1991 » Adam Smith, English footballer
• 1991 » Jung Hye-sung, South Korean actress
• 1992 » Alina Rosenberg, German Paralympic equestrian
• 1992 » Emilio Orozco, American soccer player
• 1994 » Christina Shakovets, German tennis player
• 1995 » Victoria Sinitsina, Russian ice dancer
• 1996 » Katherine Langford, Australian actress
• 1998 » Kimberly Birrell, Australian tennis player
• 2007 » Infanta Sofía of Spain, Spanish princess

• 2000 » Phạm Văn Đồng, Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1906)
• 2001 » Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr., American physicist and academic (b. 1936)
• 2002 » Bob Akin, American race car driver and journalist (b. 1936)
• 2003 » Janko Bobetko, Croatian Army general and Chief of the General Staff (b. 1919)
• 2004 » Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2005 » Louis Leithold, American mathematician and academic (b. 1924)
• 2005 » William J. Bell, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1927)
• 2006 » John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, United States Ambassador to India (b. 1908)
• 2007 » Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b. 1978)
• 2007 » Milt Bocek, American baseball player and soldier (b. 1912)

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 28 » In a friendly fire incident, two American A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing one soldier.
• April 14 » U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MSAchille Lauro in 1985.
• June 26 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
• October 4 » The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.
• December 25 » UTAGE Flight 141, a Boeing 727-223, crashes at the Cotonou Airport in Benin, killing 141 people.

The temperature on April 29, 2003 was between 7.7 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.