About the day » Thursday December 26, 2002Calender converter

• Finn Bolder, 's-Hertogenbosch († 2008)

• Arend Mos (76), Barneveld
• Adriaantje Jannetje Groenendijk (89), Heinenoord, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Wilhelmus Martinus Geerts (91), Breda
• Adrie Stolk (70), Dordrecht Z.H
• Anna Peeters (84), Beringen-Mijn, Limburg, België
• Andrea Gerardina Hendrica BÜHRS (42), Mijdrecht (Utrecht) (NL)
• Baukje Ferwerda (87), Cornwall (Stormont (Dundas And Glengarry United Counties (Ontario))), Canada
• Ans Velthuis (70), Didam
• Bernard Otto IJnzonides (77), Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alfredo Sacrini (92), Bragança Paulista, São Paulo, Brasil

• 1986 » Kit Harington, English actor
• 1989 » Yohan Blake, Jamaican sprinter
• 1990 » Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
• 1990 » Andy Biersack, American singer-songwriter
• 1990 » Denis Cheryshev, Russian footballer
• 1990 » Jon Bellion, American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer
• 1991 » Eden Sher, American actress
• 1992 » Cecilia Costa Melgar, Chilean tennis player
• 1992 » Jade Thirlwall, English singer
• 1994 » Souleymane Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer

• 2000 » Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922)
• 2001 » Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (b. 1929)
• 2002 » Armand Zildjian, American businessman, founded the Avedis Zildjian Company (b. 1921)
• 2002 » Herb Ritts, American photographer and director (b. 1952)
• 2003 » Virginia Coffey, American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
• 2004 » Angus Ogilvy, English businessman (b. 1928)
• 2004 » Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African surgeon and academic (b. 1959)
• 2004 » Mieszko Talarczyk, Polish-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1974)
• 2004 » Sigurd Køhn, Norwegian saxophonist and composer (b. 1959)
• 2004 » Troy Broadbridge, Australian footballer (b. 1980)

• 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 19 » NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• October 7 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-112 to continue assembly of the International Space Station.

The temperature on December 26, 2002 was between 8.2 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 8.4 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.