About the day » Monday October 14, 2002Calender converter

• Mathijs Terpstra, Groningen, Nederland († 2002)
• Abel de Haan, Tiel

• Ellen Kennedy Ransom (78), Franklin, Tasmania, Australia
• Aafje Dirkmaat (84), Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Geert Staal (90), Annen
• Clarence McKinley Bays (88), Ingram, Bell, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Columbus C. Dick [WkWk USS Ob MtZionMBu]Wk (80), Pulaski County, Kentucky
• Adriaan Coumou (63), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Nieboer (87)
• Cor (Anna Cornelia) de Cock (91), Eindhoven
• Adriana Maria van de Ven (72), Schaijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Voulon (78), Haarlem, 2035, Nederland

• 1985 » Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian racing driver
• 1986 » Tom Craddock, English footballer
• 1988 » Glenn Maxwell, Australian cricketer
• 1990 » Jordan Clark, English cricketer
• 1992 » Ahmed Musa, Nigerian footballer
• 1993 » Ashton Agar, Australian cricketer
• 1994 » Jaelen Feeney, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 » Jared Goff, American football player
• 1994 » Joe Burgess, English rugby league player
• 2001 » Rowan Blanchard, American actress

• 1998 » Cleveland Amory, American author and activist (b. 1917)
• 1998 » Frankie Yankovic, American accordion player (b. 1916)
• 1999 » Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian educator and politician, 1st President of Tanzania (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1909)
• 2000 » Tony Roper, American race car driver (b. 1964)
• 2002 » Norbert Schultze, German composer and conductor (b. 1911)
• 2003 » Patrick Dalzel-Job, English linguist, commander, and navigator (b. 1913)
• 2006 » Freddy Fender, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)
• 2006 » Gerry Studds, American educator and politician (b. 1937)
• 2006 » Klaas Runia, Dutch theologian and journalist (b. 1926)

• 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.
• March 4 » Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shah-i-Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
• March 30 » 2002 Lyon car attack takes place.
• April 11 » Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the Presidential palace to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. Nineteen protesters are killed.
• April 11 » The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
• 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.
• 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 October 14, 2002 was between 6.6 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 11.7 mm of rain during 8.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.