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• Marjolein Bleijenberg, Elspeet († 2003)

• Geertruida Gerarda Calis (81), Roermond
• Catharina roozendaal (85), Beverwijk
• Edna Frieda Wilhelmine Marie Witthoft (69)
• Dirk Engel van Harten (93), Barneveld
• Edna Frieda Wilhelmine Marie Witthöeft (69)
• Cornelia Maria de Beer (93), Goirle
• Arie Lamm (91), Bakel
• Franciscus Landa (65), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• D E van Harten (93)
• Cornelia Antoinetta Johanna Elisabeth van Oudheusden (54), Tilburg

• 1989 » Jon Bass, American actor
• 1989 » Kim Hyo-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls Generation)
• 1990 » Denard Robinson, American football player
• 1991 » Joe Wardle, English rugby league player
• 1991 » Kenny Bromwich, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1992 » Philip Hindes, English track cyclist
• 1993 » Yutakayama Ryota, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1994 » Carlos Correa, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1994 » Park Jin-young, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor (Got7)
• 1995 » Nayeon, Korean singer (Twice)

• 1999 » George C. Scott, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1927)
• 2000 » Saburō Sakai, Japanese lieutenant and pilot (b. 1916)
• 2001 » Isaac Stern, Polish-Ukrainian violinist and conductor (b. 1920)
• 2002 » Jan de Hartog, Dutch-American author and playwright (b. 1914)
• 2003 » Gordon Jump, American actor (b. 1932)
• 2003 » Hugo Young, English journalist and author (b. 1938)
• 2004 » Ray Traylor Jr., American professional wrestler better-known as the Big Boss Man (b. 1963)
• 2004 » Pete Schoening, American mountaineer (b. 1927)
• 2006 » Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player and educator (b. 1950)
• 2006 » Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)

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 3 » Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
• March 4 » Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces attempt to infiltrate the Shah-i-Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
• April 11 » The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.
• June 24 » The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
• 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 23 » The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox ("Phoenix 0.1") is released.

The temperature on September 22, 2002 was between 10.6 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.