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• Tres Christian HANSEN († 2002)

• Amanda van der Meulen (80), Eerbeek, Gld, Nederland
• Aleida Frederika Beumer (95)
• Annechien Hommes (83), Tynaarlo, Vries
• Alphonsus Achiellus EVERAERTS (88), Rillaar Vlaams Brabant
• Antonius van den Bemt (85), Roosendaal
• Aartje Doppenberg (83), Voorthuizen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonia Lambertha Reniers (68), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Adrianus Johannes Roose (88), Middelburg
• Agatha Francisca Johanna Maria Davina (50), Enschede
• Antonius Gerardus Hendriks (76), Tilburg

• 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)

1. Thomas
2. Lucas
3. Daan
4. Lars
5. Ruben
6. Tim
7. David
8. Thijs
9. Jan
10. Jens
11. Tom
12. Niels
13. Robin
14. Luuk
15. Rens
16. Sam

1. Amber
2. Femke
3. Lisa
4. Emma
5. Anna
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.
• January 23 » U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered.
• February 28 » During the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre.
• May 3 » An Indian Air Force MiG-21 crashes into a bank in Jalandhar, killing eight and injuring 17.
• 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.
• October 12 » Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
• November 21 » NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.

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.