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• RACHEL MOSTERT († 2003)

• Charline Ann Rankin (69), Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona, Verenigde Staten
• Elisabeth van der Made (85), Achthuizen
• Anje Louise Boomgaarden (83), Cambridge, Isanti County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Alijda Hendriks Hagen (87), Blaricum
• Allene A. Godfrey (74), Gowen, Montcalm, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Andreas Wilhelmus Cornelis van der Schenk (85), Tilburg
• Elizabeth (Lieze) van Streun (95), Delfzijl
• Elisabeth Maria Mathey (78), Haarlem
• Alyce Irene Miller Krutckoff Kay (90), Lancaster, Dallas, Texas, United States of America
• Albert Jongman (77), Groningen

• 1990 » Luke Adam, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1993 » Dennis Lloyd, Israeli musician, producer, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
• 1994 » Sean McMahon, Australian rugby player
• 1994 » Takeoff, American rapper
• 1995 » Maxim Kovtun, Russian figure skater
• 1996 » Alen Halilović, Croatian footballer
• 1996 » Niki Wories, Dutch figure skater
• 1997 » Katharina Hobgarski, German tennis player
• 1997 » Latrell Mitchell, Australian rugby league player
• 1999 » Trippie Redd, American rapper

• 1998 » Felix Knight, American actor and tenor (b. 1908)
• 2000 » Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
• 2003 » Larry Doby, American baseball player and manager (b. 1923)
• 2005 » Manuel Sadosky, Argentinian mathematician and academic (b. 1914)
• 2005 » Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Joseph Zobel, Martinique-French author (b. 1915)
• 2006 » Vincent Sherman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 2007 » Bernard Manning, English comedian and actor (b. 1930)
• 2007 » Georges Thurston, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
• 2007 » Hank Medress, American singer and producer (b. 1938)

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. Tom
15. Johannes
16. Niels

1. Emma
2. Isa
3. Maria
4. Lisa
5. Anna
6. Lieke
7. Anne
8. Laura
9. Nina
10. Catharina-amalia
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.
• March 23 » Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.
• 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 6 » Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.
• October 14 » The Steve Bartman Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.
• 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.
• 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 June 18, 2003 was between 15.2 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.