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• Fien Sam Gesina de Jong, Utrecht Utrecht Nederland († 2004)
• Yoran Leonard Maria Sladić, Leiden, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Anna Helena van Aart (82), Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, NL
• Dirkje Kulk (88), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dirkje de ZEEUW (65), Dordrecht
• Franciscus Andreas Aloysius Schiltmans (56), Tiel
• Elisabeth Maria van Tienen (76), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Daniël Arie de Mooij (78), Leiden
• Delores P. Tolley (75), Latrobe, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
• Dirkje Willems Kulk (88), Katwijk
• Antonia van 't Hul (69)
• Alfons Stoffels (73), Turnhout

• 1986 » Mathieu Razanakolona, Canadian skier
• 1988 » Rob Kwiet, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Nacer Chadli, Belgian footballer
• 1990 » Ima Bohush, Belarusian tennis player
• 1994 » Laremy Tunsil, American football player
• 1994 » Laura Pigossi, Brazilian tennis player
• 1995 » Kristaps Porziņģis, Latvian basketball player
• 1996 » Keston Hiura, American baseball player
• 1996 » Simone Manuel, American swimmer
• 1999 » Mark Lee, Korean-Canadian singer

• 1997 » William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1914)
• 1998 » Shari Lewis, American television host and puppeteer (b. 1933)
• 1999 » Willie Morris, American writer (b. 1934)
• 2003 » Peter Safar, Austrian-American physician and academic (b. 1924)
• 2004 » Ferenc Berényi, Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1929)
• 2004 » François Craenhals, Belgian illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2004 » Heinrich Mark, Estonian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (b. 1911)
• 2005 » Steven Vincent, American journalist and author (b. 1955)
• 2007 » Chauncey Bailey, American journalist (b. 1950)
• 2008 » Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese illustrator (b. 1935)

1. Samuel
2. Thomas
3. Sam
4. Lucas
5. Sem
6. Jelle
7. Daan
8. Lars
9. Niels
10. Claus-casimir
11. Tim
12. Thijs
13. Noah
14. Max
15. Johannes
16. Jan

1. Amber
2. Sanne
3. Anna
4. Emma
5. Isa
6. Lotte
7. Anne
8. Iris
9. Lisa
10. Chiara
11. Femke
12. Ameila
13. Julia
14. Noa
15. Charlotte
16. Anouk

• 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.
• February 18 » Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Nishapur, Iran, when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.
• April 1 » Google announces Gmail to the public.
• April 25 » The March for Women's Lives brings between 500,000 and 800,000 protesters, mostly pro-choice, to Washington D.C. to protest the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, and other restrictions on abortion.
• June 21 » SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
• June 24 » In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
• August 3 » The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.

The temperature on August 2, 2004 was between 11.8 °C and 26.2 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (69%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.