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• Jayden TEGETHOFF, Carroll County, Tennessee († 2004)

• Aartje Jansen (82), Harderwijk
• Adriana Anna Maria Lambrechts (64), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernardus Fanciscus Kloren (93), Breda, Noord Brabant
• Aad de Vries (75), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Barbara Gene Dawe (62), San Diego County, California, Verenigde Staten
• Celia van Krimpen (82), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berendina van Wilgenburg (90), Ermelo
• Anna Gerarda Johanna Janssen (81)
• Bart(holomeus) van der Zee (86), Kampen
• Bernhard Klören (93), Breda

• 1988 » Alicia Vikander, Swedish actress
• 1989 » Alex Trimble, Irish singer
• 1989 » Nate Montana, American football player
• 1990 » Johan Le Bon, French cyclist
• 1991 » Aki Takajo, Japanese singer
• 1991 » Jenny McLoughlin, English sprinter
• 1993 » Raffaele Di Gennaro, Italian footballer
• 1994 » Victoria Bosio, Argentinian tennis player
• 1995 » Lil Tracy, American rapper
• 1997 » Jin Boyang, Chinese figure skater

• 2000 » Benjamin Orr, American singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1947)
• 2001 » Costas Hajihristos, Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2002 » Bruce Paltrow, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1943)
• 2003 » Florence Stanley, American actress (b. 1924)
• 2003 » William Steig, American sculptor, author, and illustrator (b. 1907)
• 2004 » Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)
• 2004 » John Cerutti, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1960)
• 2005 » Nurettin Ersin, Turkish general (b. 1918)
• 2005 » Ronnie Barker, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2006 » Lucilla Andrews, Egyptian-Scottish nurse and author (b. 1919)

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

1. Emma
2. Isa
3. Maria
4. Lisa
5. Anna
6. Lieke
7. Anne
8. Laura
9. Catharina-amalia
10. Nina
11. Julia
12. Femke
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.
• June 26 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
• August 5 » A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
• August 11 » NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
• September 21 » The Galileo spacecraft is terminated by sending it into Jupiter's atmosphere.
• November 12 » Shanghai Transrapid sets a new world speed record (501 kilometres per hour (311mph)) for commercial railway systems, which remains the fastest for unmodified commercial rail vehicles.
• November 18 » The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4–3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples.

The temperature on October 3, 2003 was between 11.2 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.