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• Aaltje Nijemanting (90), Enschede,Overijssel,Niederlande
• Arie Rietveld (77), Gorinchem
• Alexander Martinus Smeele (32), Gouda
• Anders Frede Nielsen (91)
• Andreas Antonius (Dré) van Groenendaal (77), Uden
• Bontje Zoer (76)
• Anna Jacoba van Heijst (90), Deurne
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Lunenburg (79), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia Adriana Langens (88), Geffen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alberta Henrietta(Bertha) Kingma (93), Kentwood, Kent County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten

• 1991 » Alexandre Lacazette, French footballer
• 1991 » Sharrif Floyd, American football player
• 1992 » Tom Carroll, English footballer
• 1993 » Bárbara Luz, Portuguese tennis player
• 1993 » Daniel Alvaro, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 » John Stones, English footballer
• 1994 » Son Yeon-jae, South Korean gymnast
• 1998 » Dahyun, South Korean singer
• 1999 » Cameron Boyce, American actor († 2019)
• 2000 » Phil Foden, English footballer

• 2000 » George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (b. 1926)
• 2001 » Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
• 2001 » Joe Moakley, American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
• 2002 » Mildred Benson, American journalist and author (b. 1905)
• 2003 » Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 2003 » Martha Scott, American actress (b. 1912)
• 2003 » Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1933)
• 2004 » John Tolos, Greek-Canadian wrestler (b. 1930)
• 2004 » Michael Buonauro, American author and illustrator (b. 1979)
• 2004 » Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-Italian businessman and politician (b. 1934)

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 17 » Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
• January 29 » In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
• September 10 » Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.
• October 26 » Approximately 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages die when Russian special forces troops storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the terrorists during a musical performance three days before.
• November 4 » Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
• November 15 » Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.

The temperature on May 28, 2002 was between 5.9 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.