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• Debby Kinnegen, Vlaardingen(ZH) († 2002)
• renco heussen, helden-beringe
• Frederik Leonardus (Dion) Nelissen, Goes
• Kathy Corrigan, (USA)
• Thijs Vanderlinden, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, België

• Adriana Klazina van den Ende (84), 's-Gravenzande
• Anna Ubaghs (89)
• Arnold Cohen (57), Wanneperveen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Berdina de Graaff (77)
• Anna Maria Hubertina (Anna) UBAGHS (89), Epen, Netherlands
• Antoinetta Lucretia Margaretha Maria Seelbach (90)
• Carrie Summerford Brumbles (103), Sanford, Lee County, North Caroolina
• Adriana Klazina van der Ende (84), 's Gravenzande (ZH-NLD)
• Abraham de Vrind (73), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonetta Bulkmans (69), Breda, Netherlands

• 1997 » Coy Craft, American footballer
• 1997 » Joe Gomez, English footballer
• 1997 » Pedro Chirivella, Spanish footballer
• 1998 » Luca De La Torre, American footballer
• 1998 » Ross Cunningham, Scottish footballer
• 1998 » Sérgio Sette Câmara, Brazilian race car driver
• 1998 » Salwa Eid Naser, Bahraini track and field sprinter
• 1998 » Steve Lacy, American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer
• 2000 » Felipe Drugovich, Brazilian race car driver
• 2000 » Jaxson Hayes, American basketball player

• 1994 » Olav Hauge, Norwegian poet (b. 1908)
• 1996 » Kronid Lyubarsky, Russian journalist and activist (b. 1934)
• 1998 » Telford Taylor, American general and lawyer (b. 1908)
• 1999 » Owen Hart, Canadian-American wrestler (b. 1965)
• 2002 » Sam Snead, American golfer and journalist (b. 1912)
• 2006 » Kazimierz Górski, Polish footballer and manager (b. 1921)
• 2006 » Lloyd Bentsen, American colonel and politician, 69th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1921)
• 2008 » Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, Spanish mountaineer (b. 1967)
• 2008 » Utah Phillips, American singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1935)
• 2009 » Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean soldier and politician, 9th President of South Korea (b. 1946)

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 27 » An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
• June 13 » The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• July 1 » Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes.
• July 2 » Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
• July 10 » At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens's painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2million) to Lord Thomson.
• September 4 » The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record.

The temperature on May 23, 2002 was between 9.1 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.