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• Antoine (Antoon) Bamps (80), Hasselt, België
• Adrianus van der Vlist (84)
• Augustin Mathieu Van Bets (77), Oevel
• catharina adrianan DEGELING (98), rozenburg
• Cornelis Arens (80), Ubbergen, Nederland
• André Borra (74), Koekelare,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Cornelia de Boer (79), Amstelveen
• Anna Aafke (Annie) BEKS (80), Groningen (NL/GR)
• Charles W. Hosmer (78), Houston, Harris County, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Andre Borra (74), Koekelare

• 1987 » Michael Angarano, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1988 » Melissa Aldana, Chilean saxophonist
• 1989 » Alex McCarthy, English footballer
• 1989 » Selçuk Alibaz, Turkish footballer
• 1989 » Tomasz Narkun, Polish mixed martial artist
• 1990 » Christian Benteke, Belgian footballer
• 1990 » Sharon Fichman, Canadian-Israeli tennis player
• 1991 » Ekaterine Gorgodze, Georgian tennis player
• 1992 » Cristian Ceballos, Spanish footballer
• 1994 » Solomone Kata, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1999 » Horst Mahseli, Polish footballer (b. 1934)
• 1999 » Jarl Wahlström, Finnish 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918)
• 1999 » John Archer, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1999 » Madeline Kahn, American actress, comedian, and singer (b. 1942)
• 1999 » Scatman John, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1942)
• 2000 » Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet and educator (b. 1917)
• 2000 » Hoyt Curtin, American composer and producer (b. 1922)
• 2002 » Adrienne Adams, American illustrator (b. 1906)
• 2002 » Glenn Quinn, Irish-American actor (b. 1970)
• 2003 » David Hemmings, English actor (b. 1941)

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
• April 25 » Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.
• May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
• July 17 » Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
• August 6 » Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to a chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
• September 2 » The adult-oriented television block Adult Swim debuts on Cartoon Network.
• November 23 » The Convention on Cybercrime is signed in Budapest, Hungary.

The temperature on December 3, 2001 was between 7.1 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.