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• Carrie Edna White (85), Pauline, Spartanburg, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Catherina Maria Uijtendaal (94)
• Anna Schrage (87), Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa
• Alice van Otterloo (88), Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa
• Catharina Wilhelmina de Vreede (89), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Frederik Hendrik (Nelis) Kerskes (78), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Barend Geurt Wallet (79), Ermelo
• Allison Ernest (Buck) Bryan (82), Lovell, Big Horn County, Wyoming, Verenigde Staten
• Clara M Brown (87), Rolla, Phelps, Missouri, United States
• Christoffel Johannes Maria van Dijk (39)

• 1990 » Arjo Atayde, Filipino actor
• 1991 » Tomomi Kasai, Japanese actress and singer
• 1992 » George Akpabio, Nigerian footballer
• 1992 » Matthew Allwood, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Pete Davidson, American comedian and actor
• 1994 » Brandon Larracuente, American actor
• 1994 » Yoshiki Yamamoto, Japanese football player
• 1995 » Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor and pianist
• 1999 » A.G.Rhithwik
• 2006 » Mason Ramsey, American singer-songwriter

• 1999 » Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1928)
• 2000 » Ahmet Kaya, Turkish-French singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
• 2000 » Robert Earl Davis, American hip-hop artist (b. 1971)
• 2001 » Tommy Flanagan, American pianist and composer (b. 1930)
• 2005 » Donald Watson, English activist, founded the Vegan Society (b. 1910)
• 2005 » Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 2005 » Ralph Edwards, American radio and television host and producer (b. 1913)
• 2006 » Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 2006 » Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist and political scientist (b. 1930)
• 2007 » Harold Alfond, American businessman (b. 1914)

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.
• February 28 » During the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre.
• March 27 » Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors; 19 other people are injured.
• May 28 » The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
• July 2 » Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
• August 20 » A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi embassy in Berlin, Germany for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
• November 4 » Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.

The temperature on November 16, 2002 was between 3.9 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.