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February 17, 2001 
February 15, 2001
Died on Friday February 16, 2001
- Aline Van Der Putten (92), Mere
- Aartje Cornelia Treur (79)
- Anna van Kreij (71), Little Chute
- Babette OTTENHOF (65), Houten
- Andrew H Johnson (83), Clarksville, Butler County, Iowa
- Anne Klein (85), Heerhugowaard, Nederland
- Arie van Wensveen (77), Den Haag, Nederland
- Clasina Cornelia Goes (101), Woerden
- Bavonia van der Kleij (79), ,, Rotterdam, Nederland
- Anne Klein (85), Heerhugowaard
Born on February 16
- 1990 » Dunamis Lui, Australian-Samoan rugby league player
- 1990 » The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
- 1991 » Sergio Canales, Spanish footballer
- 1992 » Nicolai Boilesen, Danish footballer
- 1992 » Zsófia Susányi, Hungarian tennis player
- 1994 » Annika Beck, German tennis player
- 1994 » Ava Max, American singer and songwriter
- 1994 » Federico Bernardeschi, Italian footballer
- 1995 » Carina Witthöft, German tennis player
- 1995 » Katy Dunne, English tennis player
Died on February 16
- 1997 » Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist and academic (b. 1912)
- 1998 » Mary Amdur, American toxicologist and public health researcher (b. 1908)
- 2000 » Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-American businessman, founded PING (b. 1911)
- 2000 » Lila Kedrova, Russian-French actress and singer
- 2000 » Marceline Day, American actress (b. 1908)
- 2001 » Howard W. Koch, American director and producer (b. 1916)
- 2001 » William Masters, American gynecologist and sexologist (b. 1915)
- 2002 » Walter Winterbottom, English footballer and manager (b. 1913)
- 2003 » Rusty Magee, American actor and composer (b. 1955)
- 2004 » Doris Troy, American singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
Names that were popular for boys in 2001
- Thomas
- Jan
- Lucas
- Robin
- Daan
- Lars
- Max
- Tim
- Bram
- Ruben
- Jasper
- Thijs
- Jacob
- Sander
- Niels
- Stijn
Names that were popular for girls in 2001
- Emma
- Britt
- Femke
- Julia
- Ilse
- Sophie
- Sanne
- Amber
- Anna
- Laura
- Lisa
- Fleur
- Charlotte
- Anne
- Maria
- Anastasia
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.
- June 8 » Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
- July 2 » The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
- July 17 » Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
- 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.
- 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.
- December 22 » Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.
Weather February 16, 2001
The temperature on February 16, 2001 was between -1.6 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.