About the day » Saturday July 21, 2001Calender converter

• Kelly van Halteren, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Jennie van Slooten († 2001)

• Adrianus van de Poll (70), Utrecht,Utrecht,Nederland
• Antonius Aloijsius Schuurkes (83)
• Albertha Annie Winter (77), Nietap, Noordenveld, Drenthe, Nederland
• Elizabeth Clasina Catharina Kuiper (83), 's Gravenzande
• aldegonda petronella (gon) beurskens (79), helden-egchel
• Agatha Geertruida Laan (76), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dominicus Marijnissen (79)
• Dien Maas (Maes) (81), Australie
• Albert Huyvaert, Antwerpen, 2000, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Catharina Stam (92), Krimpen aan de Lek

• 1988 » KB, American rapper
• 1989 » Juno Temple, English actress
• 1989 » Marco Fabián, Mexican footballer
• 1990 » Chris Martin, English footballer
• 1990 » Erislandy Savón, Cuban amateur heavyweight boxer
• 1990 » Franck Elemba, Congolese athlete
• 1990 » Jason Roy, English cricketer
• 1991 » Sara Sampaio, Portuguese model
• 1992 » Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
• 1996 » Mikael Ingebrigtsen, Norwegian footballer

• 1997 » Olaf Kopvillem, Estonian-Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1926)
• 1998 » Alan Shepard, American admiral, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1923)
• 1998 » Robert Young, American actor and singer (b. 1907)
• 2000 » Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author (b. 1948)
• 2002 » Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (b. 1908)
• 2003 » John Davies, English-New Zealand runner and coach (b. 1938)
• 2004 » Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2004 » Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (b. 1929)
• 2005 » Long John Baldry, English-Canadian singer and actor (b. 1941)
• 2005 » Lord Alfred Hayes, English-American wrestler and manager (b. 1928)

1. Thomas
2. Jan
3. Lucas
4. Robin
5. Daan
6. Lars
7. Max
8. Bram
9. Tim
10. Ruben
11. Jasper
12. Thijs
13. Jacob
14. Sander
15. Niels
16. Stijn

1. Emma
2. Britt
3. Femke
4. Julia
5. Ilse
6. Sophie
7. Amber
8. Sanne
9. Anna
10. Laura
11. Lisa
12. Fleur
13. Anne
14. Charlotte
15. Maria
16. Anastasia

• 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.
• May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
• June 5 » Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm causes $5.5billion in damages, making Allison the second costliest tropical storm in U.S. history.
• June 15 » Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
• June 23 » The 8.4 M_w  southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured.
• November 12 » War in Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
• November 14 » A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes a remote part of the Tibetan plateau. It had the longest known surface rupture recorded on land (~400km) and is the best documented example of a supershear earthquake.

The temperature on July 21, 2001 was between 8.6 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.