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• Guus Lepel, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Lane John MURFET († 2002)
• Mart Tietema

• Anna Maria Adriana Robben (87), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berna Wevers (64), Lethbridge
• Adriana Johanna Hoogeweij (97), Rotterdam
• Bauke Zijlstra (88), Grijpskerk
• Antonius Theodorus Carolus Maria Brinks (46), Hengelo
• Antonius Gijsbertus Vugs (90), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berend Drenth (67), Vlaardingen, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Berend Wolf (75), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Antoon Antonis (88)
• Aagje Donker (86)

• 1990 » Kazenga LuaLua, Congolese-English footballer
• 1990 » Sakiko Matsui, Japanese singer and actress
• 1990 » Terrell Sinkfield, American football player
• 1991 » Dion Waiters, American basketball player
• 1991 » Eric Reid, American football player
• 1994 » Matti Klinga, Finnish footballer
• 1994 » Richard Kennar, Samoan rugby league player
• 1996 » Joe Burrow, American football player
• 1996 » Kang Daniel, South Korean singer
• 1997 » Viktoriia Savtsova, Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer

• 1999 » Franjo Tuđman, Croatian general and politician, 1st President of Croatia (b. 1922)
• 1999 » Rick Danko, Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (b. 1943)
• 1999 » Woodrow Borah, American historian of Spanish America (b. 1912)
• 2000 » Marie Windsor, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2001 » Ashok Kumar, Indian actor, singer, and producer (b. 1911)
• 2002 » Andres Küng, Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1945)
• 2002 » Ian MacNaughton, Scottish actor, director, and producer (b. 1925)
• 2003 » Sean McClory, Irish actor and director (b. 1924)
• 2004 » Gary Webb, American journalist and author (b. 1955)
• 2005 » Mary Jackson, American actress (b. 1910)

• 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.
• January 27 » An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
• February 27 » Ryanair Flight 296 catches fire at London Stansted Airport. Subsequent investigations criticize Ryanair's handling of the evacuation.
• February 28 » During the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre.
• May 6 » Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated following a radio-interview at the Mediapark in Hilversum.
• July 10 » At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens's painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2million) to Lord Thomson.
• September 26 » The overcrowded Senegalese ferry, MVLe Joola, capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000.

The temperature on December 10, 2002 was between -8.7 °C and -3.1 °C and averaged -6.5 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (83%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.