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• Isa Nijhof († 2003)
• Pim de Regt, Breda
• Marne Ruben Duckers, Elst

• Doede van der Meer (86), Noordbergum
• Cornelis Hendrik Brandt (99), Dordrecht
• Elisabeth Burchartz (71), Diemen
• Albert Marcel Jean Albéric José Marie Ghislain De Ridder (85), Namur
• Cornelis Mattheus (Cees) van den Berge (88), Goes
• Betsie Bastiaansen (86), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Jonkergouw (85), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Doede van der Meer (86), Noordbergum
• Doris Marie Cottrill (85)
• Aartje Scholten (95), Vaassen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1985 » Loui Eriksson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1985 » Tom Fletcher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1986 » DeAngelo Smith, American football player
• 1986 » Lacey Von Erich, American wrestler
• 1987 » Darius Boyd, Australian rugby league player
• 1987 » Jan Charouz, Czech race car driver
• 1987 » Jeremih, American singer, songwriter, and record producer
• 1994 » Benjamin Mendy, French footballer
• 1994 » Kali Uchis, American singer-songwriter
• 1998 » Rosana Serrano, Cuban rower

• 2001 » Katharine Graham, American publisher (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)
• 2003 » David Kelly, Welsh weapons inspector (b. 1944)
• 2003 » Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichord player (b. 1914)
• 2003 » Walter Zapp, Latvian-Swiss inventor, invented the Minox (b. 1905)
• 2005 » Edward Heath, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
• 2005 » Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (b. 1913)
• 2005 » Joe Vialls, Australian journalist and theorist (b. 1944)
• 2006 » Mickey Spillane, American crime novelist (b. 1918)
• 2006 » Sam Myers, American singer-songwriter (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.
• February 19 » An Ilyushin Il-76 military aircraft crashes near Kerman, Iran, killing 275.
• March 28 » In a friendly fire incident, two American A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft attack British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing one soldier.
• April 16 » The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
• August 5 » A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
• September 21 » The Galileo spacecraft is terminated by sending it into Jupiter's atmosphere.
• 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 July 17, 2003 was between 16.6 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 8.5 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.