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• Rachelle Wilhelmina Agnes van Run, Moerdijk († 2002)

• Anna Buitenhuis (87)
• Elizabeth Huijbregtse (82), Middelburg
• Dirk Anton Gradus Ostendorf (71), Sedgefield
• Anna Christina van der Meulen (81), Zaanstad
• Charles Thomas Littlepage (82), Mobile, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
• Elisabeth Wilhelmina Hendrika Touw (93)
• Earl Allen Edwards (82)
• Elbertus de Vente (77), Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Bak (83), Broek op Langedijk
• Elisabeth Wilhelmina Hendrika Touw (93), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1985 » Park Chu-young, South Korean footballer
• 1988 » Antonio Brown, American football player
• 1988 » Heather Hemmens, American actress, director, and producer
• 1988 » Sarah Walker, New Zealand BMX rider
• 1990 » Adam Reynolds, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Chiyonokuni Toshiki, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1990 » Trent Richardson, American footballer
• 1991 » Daishōmaru Shōgo, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1999 » April Ivy, Portuguese composer and singer
• 2001 » Isabela Moner, American actress

• 2000 » Vakkom Majeed, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1909)
• 2002 » Evangelos Florakis, Greek general (b. 1943)
• 2002 » Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
• 2002 » Laurence Janifer, American author (b. 1933)
• 2003 » Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, German-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1902)
• 2003 » Winston Graham, English author (b. 1908)
• 2004 » Pati Behrs, Russian-American ballerina and actress (b. 1922)
• 2005 » A. J. Quinnell, English author (b. 1940)
• 2006 » Shamil Basayev, Chechen terrorist rebel leader (b. 1965)
• 2007 » Doug Marlette, American cartoonist and author (b. 1949)

• 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 16 » The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
• February 22 » Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
• March 19 » Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
• May 25 » China Airlines Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into the Taiwan Strait, with the loss of all 225 people on board.
• September 4 » The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record.
• December 13 » European Union enlargement: The EU announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members on May 1, 2004.

The temperature on July 10, 2002 was between 10.9 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 8.1 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.