About the day » Wednesday December 5, 2001Calender converter

• Lars Meis, Delft
• Kris Passier, Maastricht († 2001)
• Michelle de Hoon, Rotterdam († 2001)
• Roosmarijn Alwina Josephine Edelbroek, Doetinchem, Overijssel, Nederland

• Aart Blokland (79), Rotterdam
• Christiaan Johannes van Beekum (82), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Rijkeboer (72), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Elisabeth Spits (86), Boeurs-en-Othe, Bourgogne, France
• Anna Aising (83), Beerta, Groningen, Netherlands
• Atje de Haan (84), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Aad Publickshuysen (88), Bilthoven
• Christina Cornelia Antonia Hartendorp (89), Velsen
• Anna Margaretha (Annie) (Louwes) Schwieters (68), Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonius Maria Stolk (51), Turkije, Zeeland, Nederland

• 1990 » Montee Ball, American football player
• 1991 » Jacopo Sala, Italian footballer
• 1992 » Ilja Antonov, Estonian footballer
• 1992 » Natalie Sourisseau, Canadian field hockey player
• 1993 » Ross Barkley, English footballer
• 1994 » Grant Ward, English footballer
• 1994 » Ondrej Duda, Slovak footballer
• 1995 » Anthony Martial, French footballer
• 1995 » Danny Levi, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1995 » Kaetlyn Osmond, Canadian figure skater

• 1995 » Charles Evans, English mountaineer, surgeon, and educator (b. 1918)
• 1995 » Gwen Harwood, Australian poet and playwright (b. 1920)
• 1995 » L. B. Cole, American illustrator and publisher (b. 1918)
• 1997 » Eugen Cicero, Romanian-German jazz pianist (b. 1940)
• 1998 » Albert Gore, Sr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1907)
• 2001 » Franco Rasetti, Italian-American physicist and academic (b. 1901)
• 2002 » Ne Win, Burmese general and politician, 4th President of Burma (b. 1911)
• 2002 » Roone Arledge, American sportscaster and producer (b. 1931)
• 2005 » Edward L. Masry, American lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
• 2006 » David Bronstein, Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player and theoretician (b. 1924)

• 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 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.
• July 4 » Vladivostock Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Airport killing all 145 people on board.
• July 24 » The Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos. Eleven civilian and military aircraft are destroyed and 15 are damaged. All 14 commandos are shot dead, while seven soldiers from the Sri Lanka Air Force are killed. In addition, three civilians and an engineer die. This incident slowed the Sri Lankan economy.
• 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.
• November 30 » Gary Ridgway is apprehended and charged with four murders as the Green River Killer.

The temperature on December 5, 2001 was between 4.1 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.