About the day » Saturday March 2, 2013Calender converter

• Alida Petronella van der Gaag (92), Berkel en Rodenrijs
• Alfons Dewitte (80), Genk
• Anna Catharina Aalet Feddes Bruinsma, Leeuwarden, Nederland
• Afra Margaretha Beers (88), Heiloo
• Berendina Brink (83), IJsselmuiden
• Abram Dymond Coolbaugh (77), Athens, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Adriën Bernardus van der Ham (94), Den Helder
• Ada Odell DeBaum (98)
• Cornelia Langeslag (86), Oegstgeest, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Elisabeth (Toos) Pauly (81), Roermond, Limburg, Nederland

• 1990 » Josh McGuire, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Malcolm Butler, American football player
• 1990 » Rauno Alliku, Estonian footballer
• 1990 » Tiger Shroff, Indian actor
• 1991 » Nick Franklin, American baseball player
• 1992 » Jack Stockwell, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Ange-Freddy Plumain, French footballer
• 1997 » Becky G, American singer and actress
• 2010 » Hailey Dawson, American with a 3D-printed robotic hand
• 2016 » Prince Oscar, duke of Skåne and prince of Sweden

• 2012 » James Q. Wilson, American political scientist and academic (b. 1931)
• 2012 » Lawrence Anthony, South African environmentalist, explorer, and author (b. 1950)
• 2012 » Norman St John-Stevas, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1929)
• 2012 » Van T. Barfoot, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1919)
• 2013 » Giorgos Kolokithas, Greek basketball player (b. 1945)
• 2013 » Peter Harvey, Australian journalist (b. 1944)
• 2013 » Shabnam Shakeel, Pakistani poet and author (b. 1942)
• 2014 » Ryhor Baradulin, Belarusian poet and translator (b. 1935)
• 2015 » Dave Mackay, Scottish-English footballer and manager (b. 1934)
• 2015 » Dean Hess, American minister and colonel (b. 1917)

• 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, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.8 million citizens.
• April 30 » Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.
• May 25 » Suspected Maoist rebels kill at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an attack on a convoy of Indian National Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India.
• June 30 » Protests begin around Egypt against President Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Freedom and Justice Party, leading to their overthrow during the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état.
• July 6 » A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.
• August 9 » Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least ten people and injuring 30.
• November 13 » Hawaii legalizes same sex marriage.

The temperature on March 2, 2013 was between 1.9 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.