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• Antonio Amaral Rodrigues (72), Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
• Arthur Kelderman (Kilderman) (75), Rock Valley, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Schouten (94), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alijda Margje Roodhart (76), Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ate Egberts Delfstra (77)
• Arthur Kelderman (75)
• cornelia agnes tans (86)
• Kok (78)
• Elisabeth Johanna (Bep) Versteeg (78), Driebergen, Nederland
• Daniel Lorier (79), Sint Laurens, Zeeland, NL

• 1989 » Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1989 » Tomasz Kaczor, Polish sprint canoeist
• 1990 » Hikmet Balioğlu, Turkish footballer
• 1990 » Siim Tenno, Estonian footballer
• 1991 » Izet Hajrović, Bosnian footballer
• 1991 » Thiago Cardoso, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Cole Sprouse, American actor
• 1992 » Daniele Garozzo, Italian fencer
• 1992 » Dylan Sprouse, American actor
• 1995 » Bruna Marquezine, Brazilian actress

• 1998 » Yury Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)
• 1999 » Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)
• 2003 » Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Hossein Panahi (Persian: حسین پناهی), Iranian actor and poet (b. 1956)
• 2004 » Mary Sherman Morgan, American chemist and engineer (b. 1921)
• 2005 » Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist and theorist (b. 1932)
• 2005 » Iván Szabó, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Finance of Hungary (b. 1934)
• 2007 » Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
• 2007 » Raul Hilberg, Austrian-American political scientist and historian (b. 1926)
• 2008 » Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (b. 1985)

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.
• January 8 » Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of the 75 passengers.
• March 20 » Invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq.
• June 2 » Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
• July 7 » NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
• August 14 » Project Thread, an operation launched by CSIS and other Canadian law enforcement agencies, saw the arrest and incarceration of 24 innocent Muslim men, most of them young Pakistani students.
• August 19 » A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children, in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing.

The temperature on August 4, 2003 was between 13.4 °C and 29.7 °C and averaged 22.2 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.