About the day » Saturday April 5, 2003Calender converter

• Elisabeth KAPITEIJN (69)
• Gooitzen de Boer (95), Leeuwarden
• Albert VERHAEGEN (68), Gent,9000,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Florence Alice Lubben (95), Waverley Bremer Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Geertje Theodora den Otter (84)
• Gerardus Johannes Maria Booijink (40)
• Cornelius Brand (82), Kalamazoo (Michigan, USA)
• Antonius Eijpe (84)
• Charlotte Francine (Wallis) de Vries (90), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Arie .....

• 1995 » Sei Muroya, Japanese footballer
• 1995 » Viliame Kikau, Fijian rugby league player
• 1996 » Nicolas Beer, Danish race car driver
• 1996 » Raouf Benguit, Algerian footballer
• 1997 » Borja Mayoral, Spanish footballer
• 1998 » Jeremy Olson
• 1999 » Andrea Buwalda
• 2000 » Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Indian actor
• 2001 » Thylane Blondeau, French model and actress
• 2002 » Elian Kerrniqi, Amore HEKSIII

• 2001 » Aldo Olivieri, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
• 2002 » Kim Won-gyun, North Korean composer and politician (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1967)
• 2003 » Keizo Morishita, Japanese painter (b. 1944)
• 2004 » Fernand Goyvaerts, Belgian footballer (b. 1938)
• 2004 » Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician and academic (b. 1936)
• 2004 » Sławomir Rawicz, Polish lieutenant (b. 1915)
• 2005 » Chung Nam-sik, South Korean footballer (b. 1917)
• 2005 » Robert Borg, American military officer and equestrian (b. 1913)
• 2005 » Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)

1. Thomas
2. Daan
3. Lucas
4. Max
5. Ruben
6. Sem
7. Lars
8. Jesse
9. Mike
10. Jan
11. Sam
12. Remco
13. Martijn
14. Niels
15. Tom
16. Bram

1. Emma
2. Isa
3. Lisa
4. Maria
5. Anna
6. Anne
7. Lieke
8. Laura
9. Catharina-amalia
10. Nina
11. Femke
12. Julia
13. Iris
14. Sanne
15. Lotte
16. Amber

• 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, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.2 million citizens.
• February 10 » France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
• August 11 » Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
• September 21 » The Galileo spacecraft is terminated by sending it into Jupiter's atmosphere.
• October 19 » Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
• December 17 » SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight.
• December 17 » The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend, Maxine Carr, is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.

The temperature on April 5, 2003 was between 5.2 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (40%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.