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• Adrianus Driebergen (66), Rijnsburg
• Doetje De Bildt (87), Sint Annaparochie, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adriana Catharina Maria van Soldt (94), Rotterdam
• Augustinus (Guus) DE LOBEL (80), Amsterdam Noord-Holland Netherlands
• Berdina Uitdewilligen (78), Steenbergen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Cornelia van Aalst (95), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Sikma (86), Grouw, Idaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Elizabeth Irene Grace YOUNG (61), Barrie, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
• Abraham Willem van der Jagt (72), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Johanna Stolp (94), Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1989 » David Button, English footballer, goalkeeper
• 1990 » Elijah Taylor, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1991 » Azeem Rafiq, Pakistani cricketer
• 1992 » Filip Krajinović, Serbian tennis player
• 1992 » Ioannis Potouridis, Greek footballer
• 1992 » Jonjo Shelvey, English footballer
• 1992 » Meyers Leonard, American basketball player
• 1992 » Ty Dillon, American race car driver
• 1995 » Laura Gulbe, Latvian tennis player
• 1998 » Todd Cantwell, English footballer

• 1998 » George H. Hitchings, American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1998 » J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
• 1999 » Horace Tapscott, American pianist and composer (b. 1934)
• 2002 » Spike Milligan, Irish soldier, actor, comedian, and author (b. 1918)
• 2003 » Fred Rogers, American minister and television host (b. 1928)
• 2003 » John Lanchbery, English-Australian composer and conductor (b. 1923)
• 2004 » Paul Sweezy, American economist and journalist (b. 1910)
• 2004 » Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian and academic (b. 1928)
• 2006 » Otis Chandler, American publisher (b. 1927)
• 2006 » Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American general and author (b. 1908)

• 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.
• January 15 » Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
• May 9 » In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
• June 28 » Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
• July 4 » Vladivostock Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Airport killing all 145 people on board.
• September 21 » Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
• November 12 » In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.

The temperature on February 27, 2001 was between -0.3 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (39%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.