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• Bernardus Dirk Willem Snikkers (74), Hengelo
• Annigje Klazina Jonker (58), Enschede, OV, Nederland
• Betsy Spanjaard (87)
• Cornelia Bakx (84), Dongen
• Alida Klazina Dijkman (79), Lutjebroek
• Christina Johanna Maria (Ine) van der Leeuw (43), Enschede
• Alida Klazina Dijkman (79)
• Augustina Dorothea Gertrude van IJsseldijk (86)
• Antonia Maria (Toos) Berghuis (75), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Christina Johanna Maria van der Leeuw (42), Enschede

• 1989 » Alyssa Brown, Canadian artistic gymnast
• 1989 » Cam Newton, American football player
• 1989 » Giovani dos Santos, Mexican international footballer
• 1992 » Pablo Sarabia, Spanish footballer
• 1992 » Thibaut Courtois, Belgian footballer
• 1993 » Maurice Harkless, American-Puerto Rican basketball player
• 1994 » Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ethiopian runner
• 1995 » Gelson Martins, Portuguese footballer
• 1999 » Kaitlyn Dias, American actress and voice artist
• 1999 » Sabrina Carpenter, American singer and actress

• 2001 » Douglas Adams, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1952)
• 2002 » Bill Peet, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 2002 » Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1912)
• 2003 » Noel Redding, English bass player (b. 1945)
• 2005 » Léo Cadieux, Canadian politician, 17th Canadian Minister of National Defence (b. 1908)
• 2006 » Floyd Patterson, American boxer and actor (b. 1935)
• 2007 » Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan ruler (b. 1913)
• 2008 » John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (b. 1953)
• 2009 » Abel Goumba, Central African physician and politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1926)
• 2009 » Claudio Huepe, Chilean economist and politician, Chilean Minister Secretary-General of Government (b. 1939)

• 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 17 » Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
• February 28 » During the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre.
• June 13 » The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• June 22 » An earthquake measuring 6.5 M_w strikes a region of northwestern Iran killing at least 261 people and injuring 1,300 others and eventually causing widespread public anger due to the slow official response.
• September 4 » The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record.
• December 23 » A U.S. MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25 in the first combat engagement between a drone and conventional aircraft.

The temperature on May 11, 2002 was between 10.4 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.