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• Iris van Deursen, Valkenswaard, Limburg, Nederland

• Alida Sophia Bos (95), Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland
• B. Edith KRAMER (97), USA
• Dany Bos (47), Diest, Vlaams-Brabant, België
• Elizabeth Ethel Amy "Ethel" Beck (90), Moweaqua, Shelby Co., IL, or in a hospital in Decatur, Macon Co., IL
• Dorothy Pauline Murty (86), Marshalltown, Marshall County, Iowa
• Edwin Clough Rice Jr (73), Greenwood, Greenwood, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Van Maanen (92)
• A.M.M. (Mieke) van Lit (59)
• Bertha (Bep) Schipper (82), Assen
• Frederika Booi (67), Liesveld

• 1990 » Kim Little, Scottish footballer
• 1990 » Yann M'Vila, French footballer
• 1991 » Addison Timlin, American actress
• 1991 » Kawhi Leonard, American basketball player
• 1991 » Suk Hyun-jun, South Korean footballer
• 1993 » Harrison Gilbertson, Australian actor
• 1994 » Camila Mendes, American actress and model
• 1996 » Joseph Manu, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1998 » Michael Porter Jr., American basketball player
• 2006 » Sam Lavagnino, American child voice actor

• 1998 » Horst Jankowski, German pianist and composer (b. 1936)
• 1999 » Allan Carr, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1937)
• 1999 » Karekin I, Syrian-Armenian patriarch (b. 1950)
• 2000 » Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor and director (b. 1922)
• 2002 » Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
• 2003 » Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
• 2004 » Alvin Hamilton, Canadian lieutenant and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1912)
• 2004 » Bernard Babior, American physician and biochemist (b. 1935)
• 2006 » Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1959)
• 2006 » Randy Walker, American football player and coach (b. 1954)

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

1. Amber
2. Femke
3. Lisa
4. Anna
5. Emma
6. Sanne
7. Julia
8. Eloise
9. Eva
10. Laura
11. Sarah
12. Isabella
13. Anne
14. Fleur
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.
• January 18 » The Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.
• February 1 » Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.
• April 26 » Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
• May 10 » FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Russia for $1.4million in cash and diamonds.
• June 11 » Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
• November 22 » In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.

The temperature on June 29, 2002 was between 9.4 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.