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• Rachel Faith Whisenhunt, Plano, Collin County, Texas († 2002)
• Bram Gerardus Johannes van der Windt, Zoetermeer, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2002)

• Cornelia de Leeuw (70), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Pearl McKENZIE (86), Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Catherine M. Beatty (79), South Boston, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Arjen Eabeles van der Schaaf (79), Damwoude
• Augusta Maria Eduarda Vermeire (91)
• Arnoud Henricus Timmermans (71), Asten
• Clara Lanier Cammack [RC] (94), Harrison County, Mississippi
• Arie Maasland (72), Hengelo Overijssel Nederland
• Cornelis Wallast (80)
• Akke Visser (90), Makkum

• 1986 » Steven Silva, American-Filipino footballer
• 1986 » Suresh Kumar Raina, Indian cricketer
• 1989 » Freddie Sears, English footballer
• 1989 » Michael Floyd, American football player
• 1990 » Josh Dubovie, English singer
• 1992 » Ala Boratyn, Polish singer-songwriter
• 1992 » Park Chanyeol, South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, actor and model
• 1995 » Suliasi Vunivalu, Fijian rugby league player
• 1996 » Andy Truong, Australian fashion designer
• 1996 » Mike Williams, Dutch DJ and record producer

• 1999 » Alain Peyrefitte, French scholar and politician, French Minister of Justice (b. 1925)
• 1999 » Elizabeth Gray Vining, American author and librarian (b. 1902)
• 1999 » Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1937)
• 2000 » Len Shackleton, English footballer and journalist (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Malcolm Bradbury, English author and academic (b. 1932)
• 2000 » Uno Prii, Estonian-Canadian architect (b. 1924)
• 2002 » Billie Bird, American actress (b. 1908)
• 2002 » Shivmangal Singh Suman, Indian poet and academic (b. 1915)
• 2005 » Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2005 » Joe Jones, American singer-songwriter (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.
• February 28 » During the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre.
• May 26 » The tugboat Robert Y. Love collides with a support pier of Interstate 40 on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, resulting in 14 deaths and 11 others injured.
• June 24 » The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
• July 9 » The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, replacing the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The organization's first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
• November 28 » Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air missiles.
• December 23 » A U.S. MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25 in the first combat engagement between a drone and conventional aircraft.

The temperature on November 27, 2002 was between 1.8 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.