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• Ervin Schneiderman (99), Sioux Falls, South Dakota
• George Sherman Woolley (74)
• Elisabeth Wilhelmina Schutter (90), Ochten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Dionysius Jacobus den Nieuwenboer (61), Haarlem
• Eduard Chrystostomus Goergen (89), Geleen (Sittard-Geleen) Limburg, Nederland
• Fonny Dierckx (49), Itegem, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Catharina Joanna van Veijfeijken (86), Mierlo-Hout, Nederland
• Aaltje Ruiter (91), Ermelo
• Antje Pietje Dorenstouter (95), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albina Maria Hendrina Joanna COX (57), Lommel, Province of Limburg, Belgium

• 1991 » Roberto Firmino, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Sirje Roops, Estonian footballer
• 1993 » Aaro Vainio, Finnish race car driver
• 1993 » Michy Batshuayi, Belgian footballer
• 1994 » Joana Eidukonytė, Lithuanian tennis player
• 1995 » Te Maire Martin, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1995 » Tepai Moeroa, Cook Islands rugby league player
• 1996 » Tom Trbojevic, Australian rugby league player
• 1997 » Hana Sugisaki, Japanese actress
• 2002 » Jacob Sartorius, American singer

• 2001 » Franz Biebl, German composer and academic (b. 1906)
• 2002 » Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
• 2003 » John Thomas Dunlop, American scholar and politician, 14th United States Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)
• 2005 » August Wilson, American author and playwright (b. 1945)
• 2005 » Nipsey Russell, American comedian and actor (b. 1918)
• 2006 » Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
• 2006 » Paul Halmos, Hungarian-American mathematician (b. 1916)
• 2007 » Christopher Derrick, English author and critic (b. 1921)
• 2007 » George Grizzard, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2007 » Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)

• 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 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 16.3 million citizens.
• March 11 » Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 192 people.
• March 12 » The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history.
• March 27 » HMSScylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
• April 24 » The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
• November 9 » Firefox 1.0 is released.
• December 26 » Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.

The temperature on October 2, 2004 was between 11.4 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.