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• Seth Owen Wall († 2003)
• Roos Philippo, Hazerswoude

• Albertus van de Graaf (88), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Visser (90), Winschoten, "t Vondelhuijs", Groningen, Nederland
• Annie Christians (75), Apeldoorn
• Angela Nicole Booy (23), Battle Creek, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Driftenaar (79)
• Antje Van Dwingelen (78), Utrecht
• Dominicus Vanderlinden (89), Genk
• Anna C. Waldinger (89)
• Aletta Jacoba Francina de Groot (87)
• David Lemmen (75)

• 1992 » Aljon Mariano, Filipino basketball player
• 1992 » Diāna Marcinkēviča, Latvian tennis player
• 1992 » Gamze Bulut, Turkish runner
• 1992 » Gesa Felicitas Krause, German runner
• 1993 » Ola Abidogun, English sprinter
• 1993 » Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer
• 1994 » Manaia Cherrington, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1994 » Todd Gurley, American football player
• 1995 » Victoria Kan, Russian tennis player
• 1999 » Yoo Yeon-jung, South Korean singer

• 1999 » Byron Farwell, American historian and author (b. 1921)
• 1999 » Rod Ansell, Australian hunter (b. 1953)
• 2000 » Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (b. 1921)
• 2001 » Christopher Hewett, English actor and director (b. 1922)
• 2003 » Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1954)
• 2004 » Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (b. 1908)
• 2005 » Françoise d'Eaubonne, French author and poet (b. 1920)
• 2006 » Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1945)
• 2006 » Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-English soprano and actress (b. 1915)
• 2007 » John Gardner, English author (b. 1926)

• 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 23 » A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time, but no usable data can be extracted.
• March 13 » An article in Nature identifies the Ciampate del Diavolo as 350,000-year-old hominid footprints.
• March 17 » Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
• July 1 » Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
• November 22 » Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land.
• December 29 » The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.

The temperature on August 3, 2003 was between 12.3 °C and 26.9 °C and averaged 20.6 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (74%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.