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• Anna Maria Antonia Van de Water (89), Nijmegen
• Albertus Engberts (39), Anerveen
• August Van Den bussche (78), Swan lake manitoba,canada
• Arnold Hubert TEEUWEN (74), Tegelen, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Mulder (73), Groningen
• Agnes Johanna Maria Fonken (69), Tilburg
• Adrianus Hendrikus Machielse (84), Roosendaal,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annie Macfarlane-Grehan (61), Perth, Victoria, Australië
• "Johannes Henderikus" Hein Hein (81), Nieuw-Schoonebeek, Nederland
• Alberkus Verberck (88), Brasschaat, België

• 1989 » Dárvin Chávez, Mexican footballer
• 1989 » Justin Tucker, American football player
• 1989 » Will Buckley, English footballer
• 1990 » Dani King, English cyclist
• 1990 » Georgie Twigg, English field hockey player
• 1991 » Almaz Ayana, Ethiopian sprinter
• 1991 » Lewis Dunk, English footballer
• 1991 » Peni Terepo, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1992 » Conor Maynard, English singer-songwriter
• 1994 » Saúl Ñíguez, Spanish footballer

• 1995 » Peter Grant, English actor and manager (b. 1935)
• 1996 » Abdus Salam, Pakistani-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
• 1996 » Bernard Rose, English organist and composer (b 1916)
• 1999 » Quentin Crisp, English actor, author, and illustrator (b. 1908)
• 2000 » Ernest Lluch, Spanish economist and politician (b. 1937)
• 2002 » Hadda Brooks, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1916)
• 2005 » Alfred Anderson, Scottish soldier (b. 1896)
• 2005 » Hugh Sidey, American journalist and academic (b. 1927)
• 2006 » Hassan Gouled Aptidon, Somalian-Djiboutian politician, 1st President of Djibouti (b. 1916)
• 2006 » Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese lawyer and politician (b. 1972)

• 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 » Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
• 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.
• July 24 » Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
• August 10 » The 2001 Angola train attack occurred, causing 252 deaths.
• October 7 » The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
• October 17 » Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.

The temperature on November 21, 2001 was between 7.4 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.