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• Cyra van Noord
• Mahé M.j. Bouwman, Emmen

• Cornelis Johannes Oomen (78), Breda
• Antonie Mattheus Adrianus Roomer (73), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berendina Maria Jozefa Hedemann (80)
• Alice Le Bruyn (85), Rijkevorsel
• Adolfo Arns (77), Forquilhinha, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Catrina Hendrika van de Kuijt (91)
• Albert Robbe (82), Westrozebeke
• Cornelia Johanna Speekenbrink (86), Eindhoven
• Albert Edmond JANSSENS (86), Leuven Vlaams Brabant
• agatha maria stuyt (78), rotterdam (zuid holland)

• 1990 » Luke Adam, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1993 » Dennis Lloyd, Israeli musician, producer, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
• 1994 » Sean McMahon, Australian rugby player
• 1994 » Takeoff, American rapper
• 1995 » Maxim Kovtun, Russian figure skater
• 1996 » Alen Halilović, Croatian footballer
• 1996 » Niki Wories, Dutch figure skater
• 1997 » Katharina Hobgarski, German tennis player
• 1997 » Latrell Mitchell, Australian rugby league player
• 1999 » Trippie Redd, American rapper

• 1997 » Lev Kopelev, Ukrainian-German author and academic (b. 1912)
• 1998 » Felix Knight, American actor and tenor (b. 1908)
• 2000 » Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
• 2003 » Larry Doby, American baseball player and manager (b. 1923)
• 2005 » Manuel Sadosky, Argentinian mathematician and academic (b. 1914)
• 2005 » Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Joseph Zobel, Martinique-French author (b. 1915)
• 2006 » Vincent Sherman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 2007 » Bernard Manning, English comedian and actor (b. 1930)
• 2007 » Hank Medress, American singer and producer (b. 1938)

• 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.
• February 27 » Godhra train burning: A Muslim mob torches a train returning from Ayodhya, killing 59 Hindu pilgrims.
• March 19 » Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
• May 28 » The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
• 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.
• November 6 » Jiang Lijun is detained by Chinese police for signing the Open Letter to the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
• November 19 » The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.

The temperature on June 18, 2002 was between 12.4 °C and 31.1 °C and averaged 22.0 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.