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• Esther Della Webb (96), Wenatchee, Chelan, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Charles J. Clapp (75), Cambridge, Furnas County, Nebraska
• Edna Maud Marshall (80), Norwich, Norfolk, England
• Eva Lena Polak (82)
• Casper Hendrik Keuker (72), Melbourne
• ELIZABETH MOSTERD (96), MAASLAND
• Aukje Klazes Postma (86), Drachten, Smallingerland, Fryslân, Nederland
• Elisabeth Likkel (77), Eindhoven
• Aukje Postma (86), Drachten, Smellingerlan, Friesland, Nederland
• Asjen Hendrik Jansen (58)

• 1994 » Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist
• 1996 » Karim Hafez, Egyptian footballer
• 1996 » Robert Murić, Croatian footballer
• 1996 » Sehrou Guirassy, French footballer
• 1997 » Allan Saint-Maximin, French footballer
• 1997 » Dean Henderson, English footballer
• 1997 » Felipe Vizeu, Brazilian footballer
• 1998 » Daniel Samohin, Israeli figure skater
• 1998 » Elizaveta Ukolova, Czech figure skater
• 1998 » Mecole Hardman, American football player

• 2001 » Morton Downey Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host (b. 1933)
• 2001 » Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927)
• 2001 » Victor Westhoff, Dutch botanist and academic (b. 1916)
• 2002 » Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
• 2002 » Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (b. 1932)
• 2003 » Howard Fast, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 2003 » Lynne Thigpen, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
• 2003 » Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)
• 2004 » Milton Resnick, Russian-American painter (b. 1917)
• 2006 » Victor Sokolov, Russian-American priest and journalist (b. 1947)

• 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.
• January 4 » Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
• 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.
• October 4 » SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
• November 21 » The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100billion) of Iraq's external debt.
• December 25 » The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
• December 31 » The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670ft).

The temperature on March 12, 2004 was between -0.3 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.