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• Ann WARD (68)
• Antonia Gerarda Beenen (93), Prinsenbeek (Noord Brabant)
• Andre Desnouck (88), Staden
• Bote Ates Galema (81), Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Fryslân, Nederland
• Aleida NIJHUIS (86), Borne, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alma Jeanette Harris Greene (74)
• Benedicta van Orden (85)
• Aaltje Koningen (98)
• Alice Anna Maria van de VELDE (88), Hulst (Zeeland) (NL)
• Adrianus Damen (80), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1986 » Penn Badgley, American actor and television personality
• 1987 » Ileana D'Cruz, Indian film actress
• 1988 » Masahiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
• 1991 » Jiang Yuyuan, Chinese gymnast
• 1991 » Reece Brown, English footballer
• 1991 » Eyþór Arnarson, Icelandic skier
• 1994 » James Ward-Prowse, English footballer
• 1995 » Margarita Mamun, Russian gymnast
• 1996 » Jeongyeon, Korean singer
• 1996 » Lil Peep, American singer and rapper († 2017)

• 1999 » Theodore Hall, American physicist and spy (b. 1925)
• 1999 » Walter Payton, American football player and race car driver (b. 1954)
• 2000 » George Armstrong, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
• 2004 » Mac Dre, American rapper and producer, founded Thizz Entertainment (b. 1970)
• 2004 » Terry Knight, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1943)
• 2005 » Michael Piller, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1948)
• 2005 » Skitch Henderson, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1918)
• 2006 » Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1966)
• 2006 » William Styron, American novelist and essayist (b. 1925)
• 2007 » S. Ali Raza, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1922)

• 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 2 » Wedding of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, and Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti
• July 1 » Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes.
• September 10 » Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.
• October 11 » A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Finland kills seven.
• November 6 » Jiang Lijun is detained by Chinese police for signing the Open Letter to the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
• November 15 » Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.

The temperature on November 1, 2002 was between 1.8 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.