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• Adrianus Josephus van de Wiel (88), Drunen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Franciscus Josephus Maria van den Hout (87), Heythuysen
• Antje Geessien Wenning (85), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Berkel (90)
• Bartel Broer (63), Leiderdorp
• Aartje Balkenende (104), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernard Harry Nesemann (74), Homosassa, Citrus, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Antonia JORISSEN (79), Malle, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Barbara J Hall (62)
• Alan V. TANGEN (87), Washington, Washington Co. (US/IA)

• 1988 » Rodrigo José Pereira, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 » Kane Linnett, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Ryan Griffin, American football player
• 1991 » Andrea Bertolacci, Italian footballer
• 1992 » Dani Carvajal, Spanish footballer
• 1992 » Lee Seung-hoon, South Korean rapper and dancer
• 1993 » Michael Keane, English footballer
• 1993 » Will Keane, English footballer
• 1996 » Leroy Sané, German footballer
• 1997 » Cody Simpson, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

• 1999 » Brian Moore, Irish-Canadian author and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 1999 » Fabrizio De André, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
• 1999 » Naomi Mitchison, Scottish author and poet (b. 1897)
• 2000 » Bob Lemon, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
• 2000 » Ivan Combe, American businessman, invented Clearasil (b. 1911)
• 2001 » Denys Lasdun, English architect, co-designed the Royal National Theatre (b. 1914)
• 2002 » Henri Verneuil, French-Armenian director and playwright (b. 1920)
• 2003 » Jože Pučnik, Slovenian sociologist and politician (b. 1932)
• 2007 » Robert Anton Wilson, American psychologist, author, poet, and playwright (b. 1932)
• 2007 » Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress (b. 1961)

• 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 19 » NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
• February 28 » During the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre.
• March 19 » Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
• June 24 » The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
• July 27 » Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 77 and injuring more than 500 others, making it the deadliest air show disaster in history.
• October 31 » A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.

The temperature on January 11, 2002 was between 0.3 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.