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• Tres Christian HANSEN († 2002)

• Alida Margaretha Johanna Petri (83), Emmen
• Adrianus Louis de Bode (51)
• Andrée Fernande HARD (81), Mont-Saint-Martin, 54382, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France
• Anthony Isaäk Schaddé van Dooren (57), Katwijk
• Anthony Isaäk Schaddé van Dooren (57), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Maria Vogelezang (78), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alphonsus Achiellus EVERAERTS (88), Rillaar Vlaams Brabant
• Annechien Hommes (83), Tynaarlo, Vries
• Anna Keur (76), Katwijk
• Aline Coleman (67), Phelps, Pike, Kentucky, United States of America

• 1991 » Devon Travis, American baseball player
• 1991 » Ji So-yun, South Korean footballer
• 1991 » Joe Alwyn, English actor
• 1991 » Riyad Mahrez, Algerian footballer
• 1993 » Davy Klaassen, Dutch footballer
• 1993 » Masaki Suda, Japanese actor
• 1993 » Steve Leo Beleck, Cameroonian footballer
• 1994 » Charalampos Mavrias, Greek footballer
• 1994 » Tang Haochen, Chinese tennis player
• 1996 » Sophie Turner, English actress

• 1994 » Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1913)
• 1999 » Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1999 » Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish soldier and pilot (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Wilmer Mizell, American baseball player and politician (b. 1930)
• 2002 » John Thaw, English actor and producer (b. 1942)
• 2004 » John Charles, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1931)
• 2005 » Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban author, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1929)
• 2005 » Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor (b. 1929)
• 2008 » Ben Chapman, American actor (b. 1928)

• 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.
• March 19 » Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
• July 15 » "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
• July 15 » Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
• July 28 » Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 crashes after takeoff from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing 14 of the 16 people on board.
• September 23 » The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.
• September 26 » The overcrowded Senegalese ferry, MVLe Joola, capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000.

The temperature on February 21, 2002 was between 0.9 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.