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• Ardina Dien van Stiphout (89), Oisterwijk
• Abraham Leonardus van den Ende (78), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Alida van den Berg (85), Arnhem
• Annie van den BERG (85), Arnhem,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cilia Walter (80), Hierden
• Alberdina Betje Post (84), Enschede, Nederland
• Bartel Ringelberg (70)
• Annetje Cornelia Glasbergen (73), Katwijk
• Albertus van Heiningen (83), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland NED
• Alida Maria Albertina Vink (64)

• 1986 » Nicky Adams, English-Welsh footballer
• 1988 » Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer
• 1989 » Dan Biggar, Welsh rugby player
• 1992 » Bryce Harper, American baseball player
• 1992 » Kostas Fortounis, Greek footballer
• 1992 » Stuart Lightbody, Irish badminton player
• 1993 » Caroline Garcia, French tennis player
• 1994 » Adam Elliott, Australian rugby league player
• 1997 » Charles Leclerc, Monégasque Formula One driver
• 1997 » Naomi Osaka, Haitian-Japanese tennis player

• 1999 » Jean Shepherd, American radio host, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2000 » Mel Carnahan, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 51st Governor of Missouri (b. 1934)
• 2000 » Rick Jason, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2001 » Etta Jones, American singer-songwriter (b. 1928)
• 2003 » Avni Arbaş, Turkish painter (b. 1919)
• 2003 » László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer (b. 1915)
• 2004 » Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)
• 2006 » John Victor Murra, Ukrainian-American anthropologist and academic (b. 1916)
• 2006 » Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian lawyer and politician, 91st President of Peru (b. 1936)

• 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 11 » Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
• March 1 » Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
• March 1 » The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
• April 9 » Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces.
• 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.
• August 29 » Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, is assassinated in a terrorist bombing, along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a mosque in Najaf.

The temperature on October 16, 2003 was between 3.0 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.