About the day » Monday August 12, 2002Calender converter

• Bartha Kuiper (90)
• Alice Carol Benz (70), Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa
• Bartha Kuiper * (90)
• Bernardus Wilhelmus Rabelink (78), Doetinchem
• Cornelis van der Lee (95), Naaldwijk (Westland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Josephina (Fina) HEERINGS (95), Heerlen (NL/LI)
• Eduard Rudolf Zuiderduin (73), Amersfoort
• Albertus Hendrikus Reugebrink (88), Bellflower, Los Angeles County, California, United States
• Armand de Molenaer (88), Antwerpen
• Alathea Cribb (67), New Hanover County, North Carolina

• 1992 » Cara Delevingne, English model and actress
• 1992 » Isabella Escobar, Guatemalan tennis player
• 1992 » Jacob Loko, Australian rugby player
• 1992 » Teo Gheorghiu, Swiss pianist and actor
• 1993 » Ewa Farna, Czech singer-songwriter
• 1993 » Luna, South Korean singer, actress and presenter
• 1996 » Julio Urías, Mexican baseball player
• 1998 » Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greek tennis player
• 1999 » Matthijs de Ligt, Dutch footballer
• 2000 » Tristan Charpentier, French racing driver

• 1997 » Jack Delano, American photographer and composer (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Jean Drapeau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1916)
• 2000 » Gennady Lyachin, Russian captain (b. 1955)
• 2000 » Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
• 2002 » Enos Slaughter, American baseball player and manager (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Godfrey Hounsfield, English biophysicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
• 2005 » John Loder, English sound engineer and producer, founded Southern Studios (b. 1946)
• 2006 » Victoria Gray Adams, American civil rights activist (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Merv Griffin, American actor, singer, and producer, created Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune (b. 1925)
• 2007 » Mike Wieringo, American author and illustrator (b. 1963)

1. Thomas
2. Lucas
3. Daan
4. Lars
5. Ruben
6. Tim
7. David
8. Thijs
9. Jan
10. Jens
11. Tom
12. Robin
13. Niels
14. Luuk
15. Rens
16. Stijn

1. Amber
2. Lisa
3. Femke
4. Anna
5. Emma
6. Sanne
7. Julia
8. Eloise
9. Eva
10. Laura
11. Sarah
12. Isabella
13. Anne
14. Fleur
15. Iris
16. Lotte

• 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 18 » The Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.
• January 22 » Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
• February 1 » Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.
• June 10 » The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
• September 9 » The Rafiganj train wreck happened in Bihar, India.
• October 29 » Ho Chi Minh City ITC fire, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping. Over 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.

The temperature on August 12, 2002 was between 14.2 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.