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• Romy Wessels († 2002)
• Sigurd Wendelboe Hjorth
• Romy Wessels, Deventer Overijssel Nederland († 2002)

• Cornelia van Dijk (79)
• Anna Voogt (85)
• Catharina Petronella Voerman (59), 's-Gravenshage (Den Haag),, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Antoinette Marie Vano (73), Mount Kisco, Westchester, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Daniel Harold"Danny" Luxenberg (70), Newport Beach, Orange, California, Verenigde Staten
• Arthur Perry McKeown Jr. (80), Florida
• Annie Carla van Gansewinkel (84), Sittard, Limburg, Nederland
• Aren Leffland (44), Ballerup, Sm¢rum hrd. Danmark
• Albert Zantingh (84), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Cora Helen Roelofs (83)

• 1989 » Michaëlla Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
• 1989 » Michael Beasley, American basketball player
• 1989 » Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress
• 1989 » Yana Maksimava, Belarusian heptathlete
• 1990 » Justin Blackmon, American football player
• 1991 » Álvaro Soler, Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1991 » Edon Hasani, Albanian football player
• 1992 » Joseph Parker, Samoan heavyweight boxer
• 1993 » Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English long jumper and heptathlete
• 1999 » Shannon Tavarez, American actress († 2010)

• 1997 » Edward Osóbka-Morawski, Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
• 1998 » Imi Lichtenfeld, Slovakian-Israeli martial artist, founded Krav Maga (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2000 » Arnold Alexander Hall, English engineer and academic (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Maurice Prather, American photographer and director (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Will McDonough, American journalist (b. 1935)
• 2004 » Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and academic (b. 1909)
• 2006 » Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
• 2006 » W. Cleon Skousen, American author and academic (b. 1913)

• 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 28 » During the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre.
• March 29 » In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.
• April 2 » Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated.
• May 3 » An Indian Air Force MiG-21 crashes into a bank in Jalandhar, killing eight and injuring 17.
• May 12 » Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
• November 19 » The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.

The temperature on January 9, 2002 was between -4.1 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.