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• Robin Jan Hut, Groningen († 2003)
• Johanna Antonia Smits, Tilburg
• Priska Izelaar, Capelle aan de Ijssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2003)
• Robin Hut, Groningen

• Alice Boddie Likely (83), North Branford (New Haven County) (Connecticut)
• Anna Helena Cortenbach (99), Venray
• Aartje Mulder (85), Apeldoorn
• Bregje Kalf (87), Wormerveer, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Apolonia Maria Gaarthuis (77), Leidschendam-Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Reijans (87), Mönchengladbach, Duitsland
• Catharina Cornelia Heemskerk (94), Noordwijkerhout, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Vlig (100), Lemsterland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anne Johanneszn. Huitema (66)
• Anna van Dijk (90), Bergum

• 1982 » Francisco Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1983 » Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
• 1985 » Lewis Hamilton, English racing driver
• 1986 » Wayne Routledge, English footballer winger
• 1987 » Davide Astori, Italian footballer († 2018)
• 1987 » Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
• 1987 » Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer
• 1990 » Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
• 1991 » Caster Semenya, South African sprinter
• 1991 » Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer

• 1998 » Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
• 1998 » Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 2000 » Gary Albright, American wrestler (b. 1963)
• 2001 » James Carr, American singer (b. 1942)
• 2002 » Avery Schreiber, American comedian and actor (b. 1935)
• 2004 » Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
• 2005 » Pierre Daninos, French author (b. 1913)
• 2006 » Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and author (b. 1912)
• 2007 » Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver and businessman (b. 1957)
• 2007 » Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic journalist, author, and academic (b. 1929)

• 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.
• April 9 » Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces.
• April 14 » U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MSAchille Lauro in 1985.
• July 6 » The 70-metre Yevpatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message (Cosmic Call 2) to five stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri (HD 75732), HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris (HD 95128). The messages will arrive to these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, and 2049, respectively.
• July 8 » Sudan Airways Flight 139 crashes near Port Sudan Airport during an emergency landing attempt, killing 116 of the 117 people on board.
• 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.
• November 12 » Iraq War: In Nasiriyah, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.

The temperature on January 7, 2003 was between -8.2 °C and -2.4 °C and averaged -5.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.