About the day » Saturday March 23, 2002Calender converter

• Adriaan (Aad) Oskam (72), Florida U.S.A.
• Dre Peeters (72), Venlo
• Anna Schoenmakers (73), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dorothy Wilhelmina Claussen (89), Louisville, Cass, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten
• Andreas Jacobus van de Meer (78), Warmond
• André Marie Christoffel Peeters (72), Helden
• Anna Cornelia Maria Schoenmakers (73), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antoon Tony Olthof (86)
• Arnoldus Teunissen (74), Valburg, Nederland
• Adriaan Oskam (72), Florida U.S.A

• 1991 » Gregg Wylde, Scottish footballer
• 1992 » Kyrie Irving, Australian-American basketball player
• 1992 » Tolga Ciğerci, German-Turkish footballer
• 1993 » Aytaç Kara, Turkish footballer
• 1993 » Kyle Lovett, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 » Nick Powell, English footballer
• 1995 » Jan Lisiecki, Canadian pianist
• 1995 » Kevin Kauber, Estonian footballer
• 1995 » Ozan Tufan, Turkish footballer
• 1996 » Alexander Albon, Thai-British race car driver

• 1999 » Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan judge and politician, Vice President of Paraguay (b. 1932)
• 1999 » Osmond Borradaile, Canadian director and cinematographer (b. 1898)
• 2001 » David McTaggart, Canadian badminton player and environmentalist (b. 1932)
• 2001 » Margaret Jones, British archaeologist (b. 1916)
• 2001 » Robert Laxalt, American author (b. 1923)
• 2001 » Rowland Evans, American journalist (b. 1921)
• 2002 » Ben Hollioake, Australian-English cricketer (b. 1977)
• 2002 » Eileen Farrell, American soprano (b. 1920)
• 2003 » Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-English flute player and journalist (b. 1926)
• 2004 » Rupert Hamer, Australian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 39th Premier of Victoria (b. 1916)

• 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 3 » Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
• January 23 » U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered.
• 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.
• September 4 » The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record.
• October 11 » A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Finland kills seven.
• October 31 » A federal grand jury in Houston, Texas indicts former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow on 78 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to the collapse of his ex-employer.

The temperature on March 23, 2002 was between 1.4 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.