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• Dirkje Taal (93), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Donald Christopher Rumney (73), West Wareham
• Anne-Lise Sørensen (66)
• Arend Scheffer (74)
• Annie Belle Grubbs (90), Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Edo kerkhoff (82), Eindhoven
• Donald Christopher Rumney (73), West Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Dorothy Marie van der Weide (71), Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa
• Aaltje Bien (86), Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aria Langstraten (72), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

• 1989 » Thiemo-Jérôme Kialka, German footballer
• 1991 » Matt Srama, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Pixie Lott, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1992 » Ishak Belfodil, Algerian footballer
• 1992 » Samuele Longo, Italian footballer
• 1993 » Do Kyungsoo, South Korean singer and member of boy band EXO
• 1993 » Simone Pecorini, Italian footballer
• 1993 » Zayn Malik, English singer-songwriter
• 1995 » Alessio Romagnoli, Italian footballer
• 1995 » Sarah Mehain, Canadian Paralympic swimmer

• 1999 » Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1961)
• 2000 » Bobby Phills, American basketball player (b. 1969)
• 2000 » Marc Davis, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 2001 » Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (b. 1922)
• 2001 » William Redington Hewlett, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (b. 1913)
• 2002 » Cyrus Vance, American lawyer and politician, 57th U.S. Secretary of State (b. 1917)
• 2003 » Dean Amadon, American ornithologist and author (b. 1912)
• 2003 » Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 2003 » Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine general and politician, 44th President of Argentina (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Maurice Gibb, Manx-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1949)

1. Thomas
2. Jan
3. Lucas
4. Robin
5. Daan
6. Lars
7. Max
8. Tim
9. Bram
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. Sanne
8. Amber
9. Anna
10. Laura
11. Lisa
12. Fleur
13. Charlotte
14. Anne
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.
• February 12 » NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
• April 25 » Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.
• 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.
• August 6 » Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to a chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
• September 11 » The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated suicide attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
• September 17 » The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.

The temperature on January 12, 2001 was between -3.7 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.