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Born on Thursday December 6, 2001
- audrey bruijnen, helden-dorp
Died on Thursday December 6, 2001
- Adriana Johanna Koop (87), 's-Gravenhage
- Clyde Lionel Wolff (92), Kalamazoo, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
- Albertje de Vries (92)
- Dirk Anton van der Snoek (79), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
- Dorothea Johanna (Dora) van der Veen (91), Amstelveen, NH, Nederland
- Cornelia Leuntje Meerman (93), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
- Christina Maria Lindenhof (84), Denia (Spanje)
- Aaltje BARENDRECHT (84), Dordrecht
- Doris May Platell (82), Queensland, Australia
- Cornelis Schouwenaars (71), Dordrecht
Born on December 6
- 1992 » Britt Assombalonga, Congolese footballer
- 1992 » Johnny Manziel, American football player
- 1993 » Jasprit Bumrah, Indian cricketer
- 1993 » Pedro Rafael Amado Mendes, Portuguese footballer
- 1993 » Tautau Moga, Australian-Samoan rugby league player
- 1994 » Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player
- 1994 » Shreyas Iyer, Indian Cricketer
- 1996 » Davide Calabria, Italian football player
- 1997 » Sabrina Ionescu, American basketball player
- 1998 » Angelīna Kučvaļska, Latvian figure skater
Died on December 6
- 1997 » Willy den Ouden, Dutch swimmer (b. 1918)
- 1998 » César Baldaccini, French sculptor and educator (b. 1921)
- 2000 » Aziz Mian, Pakistani singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1942)
- 2000 » Werner Klemperer, German-American actor (b. 1920)
- 2001 » Charles McClendon, American football player and coach (b. 1923)
- 2001 » Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (b. 1948)
- 2002 » Philip Berrigan, American priest and activist (b. 1923)
- 2003 » Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, Guatemalan general and politician, President of Guatemala (b. 1918)
- 2005 » Charly Gaul, Luxembourger cyclist (b. 1932)
- 2005 » Devan Nair, Malaysian-Singaporean union leader and politician, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)
Names that were popular for boys in 2001
- Thomas
- Robin
- Lucas
- Jan
- Daan
- Lars
- Max
- Bram
- Tim
- Ruben
- Jasper
- Thijs
- Jacob
- Sander
- Niels
- Stijn
Names that were popular for girls in 2001
- Emma
- Britt
- Femke
- Ilse
- Sophie
- Julia
- Sanne
- Amber
- Anna
- Laura
- Lisa
- Fleur
- Anne
- Charlotte
- Maria
- Anastasia
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 2001
- 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, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
- The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
- April 1 » Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
- May 21 » French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
- May 27 » Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
- September 10 » Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
- September 21 » Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
- October 11 » The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
Weather December 6, 2001
The temperature on December 6, 2001 was between -0.8 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.