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• Kéloïs Axel Kaïs Wassen, Sens, Frankrijk († 2011)

• Calmina Newberger (88), Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Co van der Helm (74)
• ? - NO NAME (77), Terrace
• Cor de Nijs (79), Bergen
• Adrianus Boer (63)
• Anna Maria Francisca Simons (90), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Irene (roepnaam: Ann) Punt (85), Sioux Center, Iowa (USA)
• Annechien Schoo (79), Valthermond, Odoorn
• Andries Johannes Riemens (88), Hoek (Terneuzen), Zeeland, Nederland
• Catharina Wilhelmina Leijten (84), Oss (Noord-Brabant, NLD)

• 1987 » Yasser Corona, Mexican footballer
• 1987 » Yevhen Khacheridi, Ukrainian-Greek footballer
• 1988 » Greg Hardy, American football player
• 1989 » Felipe Kitadai, Brazilian martial artist
• 1990 » Simone Pizzuti, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Soulja Boy, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1993 » Cher Lloyd, English singer-songwriter
• 1993 » Harry Kane, English footballer
• 1993 » Moses Odubajo, English footballer
• 1995 » Josh Addo-Carr, Australian rugby league player

• 1998 » Consalvo Sanesi, Italian race car driver (b. 1911)
• 1998 » Lenny McLean, English boxer, actor, and author (b. 1949)
• 1998 » Zbigniew Herbert, Polish poet and author (b. 1924)
• 1999 » Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2000 » Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi poet, author, and critic (b. 1943)
• 2002 » Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 2003 » Valerie Goulding, Irish activist and politician (b. 1918)
• 2004 » Francis Crick, English biologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist and author (b. 1938)

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

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

• 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.
• July 9 » The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, replacing the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The organization's first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
• July 28 » Nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, are rescued after 77 hours underground.
• October 26 » Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian special forces troops storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.
• November 13 » During the Prestige oil spill a storm burst a tank of the oil tanker MV Prestige which was not allowed to dock and sank on November 19, 2002 off the coast of Galicia, spilling 63,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil, more than the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.
• November 15 » Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
• December 17 » Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years.

The temperature on July 28, 2002 was between 15.7 °C and 29.7 °C and averaged 23.0 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.