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• Tom Ferson

• Barbara Dumont (85), Heerlen
• Anna Maria van Stratum (93), Louisiana, Massachusetts, United States
• Antonia Martens (79), Tilburg
• Beulah M Crow (95), Fresno, California, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Jozef Mazeland (88), Oldenzaal
• Egberdina van Schooten (93), Gorssel
• Alice Mae Titus (88), Otego, Otsego Co., New York, Verenigde Staten
• Elisabeth Emilie Steinwachs (91), Waalwijk
• Arnett D. Ostendorf (75), Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City, Cerro Gordo Co., IA
• Cornelis (Cees) van der Laan (78), Zaanstad

• 1985 » Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model
• 1985 » Rooney Mara, American actress
• 1986 » Romain Grosjean, French race car driver
• 1988 » Takahiro Moriuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1989 » Avi Kaplan, singer and songwriter
• 1989 » Paraskevi Papachristou, Greek triple jumper
• 1990 » Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer
• 1992 » Lachlan Maranta, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1994 » Alanna Goldie, Canadian fencer
• 1996 » Lorna Fitzgerald, British actress

• 1998 » Linda McCartney, American photographer, activist, and musician (b. 1941)
• 2003 » Earl King, American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter (b. 1934)
• 2003 » H. B. Bailey, American race car driver (b. 1936)
• 2003 » John Paul Getty, Jr., American-English philanthropist (b. 1932)
• 2003 » Robert Atkins, American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (b. 1930)
• 2003 » Yiannis Latsis, Greek businessman (b. 1910)
• 2004 » Edmond Pidoux, Swiss author and poet (b. 1908)
• 2006 » Henderson Forsythe, American actor (b. 1917)
• 2006 » Jean Bernard, French physician and haematologist (b. 1907)
• 2006 » Scott Brazil, American director and producer (b. 1955)

1. Lucas
2. Thomas
3. Daan
4. Lars
5. Ruben
6. David
7. Tim
8. Jens
9. Thijs
10. Jan
11. Rens
12. Robin
13. Niels
14. Tom
15. Luuk
16. Sam

1. Amber
2. Femke
3. Anna
4. Lisa
5. Emma
6. Eloise
7. Sanne
8. Julia
9. Eva
10. Laura
11. Sarah
12. Isabella
13. Fleur
14. Anne
15. Iris
16. Lotte

• 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.
• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 16.1 million citizens.
• February 12 » The trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, begins at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands. He dies four years later before its conclusion.
• May 1 » OpenOffice.org released version 1.0, the first stable version of the software.
• May 20 » The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
• September 4 » The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record.
• October 2 » The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
• November 6 » Jiang Lijun is detained by Chinese police for signing the Open Letter to the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

The temperature on April 17, 2002 was between 3.2 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.