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• Baukje Visser (68), Leeuwarden
• Edmond PIRLOT de CORBION (86), Aigrefeuille-sur-Maine, 44002, Loire Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France
• Dolly Marie Merrill (80), Thoreau, McKinley, New Mexico, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Manders (79), Heerlen, NL
• Adrianus LOEVE (85)
• Donald Paul Crosser (73), Heritage Care Ctr., Iowa Fls., Hardin Co., IA
• Anna Josephina Manders (79), Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands
• Ada Wilhelmena Schmidt (86), Belen, New Mexico, VS
• Elba Lawrence Ardis (83), Poteau, Leflore County, Oklahoma
• Elisabeth Knoop (84), Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1990 » Dmitry Andreikin, Russian chess player
• 1991 » Gerald Tusha, Albanian footballer
• 1991 » Nabil Bahoui, Swedish footballer
• 1992 » Neymar, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Stefan de Vrij, Dutch footballer
• 1993 » Leilani Latu, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Ty Rattie, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1995 » Adnan Januzaj, Belgian-Albanian footballer
• 1996 » Stina Blackstenius, Swedish footballer
• 1997 » Patrick Roberts, English footballer

• 1998 » Tim Kelly, American guitarist (b. 1963)
• 1999 » Wassily Leontief, Russian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 2000 » Claude Autant-Lara, French director and screenwriter (b. 1901)
• 2004 » John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)
• 2005 » Gnassingbé Eyadéma, Togolese general and politician, President of Togo (b. 1937)
• 2005 » Michalina Wisłocka, Polish gynecologist and sexologist (b. 1921)
• 2006 » Norma Candal, Puerto Rican-American actress (b. 1927)
• 2007 » Alfred Worm, Austrian journalist, author, and academic (b. 1945)
• 2007 » Leo T. McCarthy, New Zealand-American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1930)
• 2008 » Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founded Transcendental Meditation (b. 1918)

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

1. Emma
2. Isa
3. Lisa
4. Maria
5. Anna
6. Lieke
7. Anne
8. Laura
9. Nina
10. Catharina-amalia
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.
• May 1 » Invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, on board the USSAbraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".
• May 28 » Peter Hollingworth resigns as Governor-General of Australia following criticism of his handling of child sexual abuse allegations during his tenure as Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane.
• August 18 » One-year-old Zachary Turner is murdered in Newfoundland by his mother, who was awarded custody despite facing trial for the murder of Zachary's father. The case was documented in the film Dear Zachary and led to reform of Canada's bail laws.
• October 18 » Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
• December 7 » The Conservative Party of Canada is officially registered, following the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
• 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 February 5, 2003 was between -1.4 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.