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• Arend Rog (81), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bertus Cornelis Jan Voskamp (59), Vlaardingen
• Berendina van Bijsteren (51), Harderwijk
• Boudewijna Johanna Luijendijk (89), Veenendaal, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Aaltje Zaal (89), 's-Gravenhage
• Adriana van Nieuwenhuijzen (92), Den Helder
• Anneke van den Hoven (63)
• Arnold Hendrik Wilhelmina Spelthan (72), Bunde
• Catharina Evegroen (42), Rotterdam
• Catherine Inez McGuirk (95), Halethorpe, Baltimore, Maryland, Verenigde Staten

• 1987 » Paul Huntington, English footballer
• 1989 » Kate Deines, American soccer player
• 1990 » Pixie Geldof, English model and singer
• 1990 » Sean Scannell, English footballer
• 1991 » Cameron King, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Justyna Jegiołka, Polish tennis player
• 1991 » Ryo Ishikawa, Japanese golfer
• 1993 » Sofiane Boufal, Moroccan footballer
• 1993 » Sophie Howard, Scottish footballer
• 1997 » Auston Matthews, American ice hockey player

• 1997 » Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
• 1998 » Geoffrey Dutton, Australian historian and author (b. 1922)
• 1998 » Ted Binion, American poker player and businessman (b. 1943)
• 1999 » Frankie Vaughan, English singer and actor (b. 1928)
• 2000 » Georgiy Gongadze, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and director (b. 1969)
• 2003 » Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
• 2005 » Alfred Reed, American composer and educator (b. 1921)
• 2005 » Jacques Lacarrière, French journalist and critic (b. 1925)
• 2009 » Dick Durock, American stuntman and actor (b. 1937)
• 2009 » Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian terrorist (b. 1968)

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 1 » Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
• 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.
• October 26 » The Cedar Fire, the third-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000km), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.
• 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 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 25 » The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing.

The temperature on September 17, 2003 was between 7.9 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (80%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.