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August 3, 2001Born on Saturday August 4, 2001
- Sam Levi Baaij, den Helder († 2002)
- Anoeshka Schaap († 2001)
Died on Saturday August 4, 2001
- Arie Valentijn (91), Ammerzoden
- Cornelis Hendrikus van der Poel (89), Noordwijk
- Charles David Myers (57)
- Betty Lou Jensen (80)
- Cornelia Adriana Tammer (74), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Alfred Ligtenberg (75)
- Agnes Andrea Francine N. Laeveren (49)
- Delbert George Hymer (64), Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States
- Adrianus Bartholomeus van Huik (77), Alphen aan de Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Albert KATUIN (76), Emmen Drenthe Netherlands
Born on August 4
- 1989 » Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1989 » Tomasz Kaczor, Polish sprint canoeist
- 1990 » Hikmet Balioğlu, Turkish footballer
- 1990 » Siim Tenno, Estonian footballer
- 1991 » Izet Hajrović, Bosnian footballer
- 1991 » Thiago Cardoso, Brazilian footballer
- 1992 » Cole Sprouse, American actor
- 1992 » Daniele Garozzo, Italian fencer
- 1992 » Dylan Sprouse, American actor
- 1995 » Bruna Marquezine, Brazilian actress
Died on August 4
- 1996 » Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, author, and television host (b. 1936)
- 1997 » Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian; holds records for the world's substantiated longest-lived person (b. 1875)
- 1998 » Yury Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)
- 1999 » Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)
- 2003 » Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
- 2004 » Hossein Panahi (Persian: حسین پناهی), Iranian actor and poet (b. 1956)
- 2004 » Mary Sherman Morgan, American chemist and engineer (b. 1921)
- 2005 » Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist and theorist (b. 1932)
- 2005 » Iván Szabó, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Finance of Hungary (b. 1934)
- 2007 » Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
Names that were popular for boys in 2001
- Jan
- Johannes
- Thomas
- Willem
- Cornelis
- Jacob
- Lucas
- Hendrik
- Alexander
- Pieter
- Robin
- Daan
- Daniel
- Ruben
- Bram
- Michael
Names that were popular for girls in 2001
- Maria
- Anna
- Johanna
- Elisabeth
- Emma
- Marie
- Anne
- Sophie
- Laura
- Amber
- Cornelia
- Lisa
- Sanne
- Femke
- Julia
- Charlotte
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.
- January 12 » Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
- March 23 » The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
- April 1 » An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China and is detained.
- May 21 » French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
- June 1 » Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.
- December 15 » The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean.
The weather on Saturday August 4, 2001
The temperature on August 4, 2001 was between 11.3 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.
Source: KNMI
Source: KNMI