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• Marco van der Horst, Veendam, Groningen, Nederland

• Dorothy Gretchen Kopcke (99), Beresfield, Australie
• Dorothy Gretchen Kopcke (99), AUSTRALIA
• Emma Maria Frederika de Groot (89), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Geertje Vos (96), Bussum (NH, NLD)
• Charles Dock Myers (99), Dallas, Polk County, Oregon, Verenigde Staten
• Eli Albert Braspenning (78), Sittard
• Adrianus Theodorus Maria Geboers (78), Heerlen, LI Netherlands
• Elisabeth Beekenkamp (92), Zwolle, Gelderland, Nederland
• Douglas Richard LARSON (44), Brookings, Brookings, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Arthur John Knight (90), Finedon, VK

• 1987 » Yasser Corona, Mexican footballer
• 1987 » Yevhen Khacheridi, Ukrainian-Greek footballer
• 1988 » Greg Hardy, American football player
• 1989 » Felipe Kitadai, Brazilian martial artist
• 1990 » Simone Pizzuti, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Soulja Boy, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1993 » Cher Lloyd, English singer-songwriter
• 1993 » Harry Kane, English footballer
• 1993 » Moses Odubajo, English footballer
• 1995 » Josh Addo-Carr, Australian rugby league player

• 1999 » Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2000 » Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi poet, author, and critic (b. 1943)
• 2002 » Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 2003 » Valerie Goulding, Irish activist and politician (b. 1918)
• 2004 » Francis Crick, English biologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Tiziano Terzani, Italian journalist and author (b. 1938)
• 2006 » David Gemmell, English author (b. 1948)
• 2007 » Jim LeRoy, American soldier and pilot (b. 1961)
• 2007 » Karl Gotch, Belgian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1924)

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.
• March 5 » In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.
• March 20 » Invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq.
• August 10 » European heat wave: The then-highest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom, 38.5°C (101.3°F) in Kent, England. This record was later surpassed in July 2019.
• September 14 » In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
• November 20 » After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.
• December 26 » The 6.6 M_w  Bam earthquake shakes southeastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving more than 26,000 dead and 30,000 injured.

The temperature on July 28, 2003 was between 10.6 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.