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• Geertruda Maria Cornelia Bragt (85), Helmond
• Francis Robert White Jr (71), Clovis, Curry County, New Mexico, United States of America
• Albert Victor Barnes (87), Plymouth Quay, Qld, Australia
• Cora Vivian Newell (92), Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina
• Franciscus Jacobus Hermans (75), Oostburg
• Adrianus Willem Jurianus Genefaas (73), Breda, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Walkier (76), Amsterdam
• gerardus hubertus (gerrit) lommen (83), venlo (ziekenhuis)
• Cornelis Nieuwkoop (78), Fijnaart, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Theodora Zwartjes (88), Alkemade

• 1963 » Paul O'Neill, American baseball player and sportscaster; five-time World Series champion
• 1967 » Ed Balls, British politician; Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1968 » Oumou Sangaré, Grammy Award-winning Malian Wassoulou musician
• 1971 » Sean Astin, American actor, director and producer
• 1974 » Dominic Raab, British politician; First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• 1981 » Park Ji-sung, South Korean footballer; the most successful Asian player with 19 career trophies
• 1982 » Flavia Pennetta, Italian tennis player; winner of the 2015 US Open
• 1988 » Tom Marshall, British photo colouriser and artist
• 1992 » Jorge Soler, Cuban baseball player
• 1999 » Gianluigi Donnarumma, Italian international footballer; youngest goalkeeper to play for Italy

• 1996 » Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-American physician and author (b. 1940)
• 1997 » Andrei Sinyavsky, Russian journalist and publisher (b. 1925)
• 1998 » W. O. Mitchell, Canadian author and playwright (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 2001 » A. R. Ammons, American poet and critic (b. 1926)
• 2001 » Don Bradman, Australian international cricketer; holder of world record batting average (b. 1908)
• 2005 » Peter Benenson, English lawyer, founded Amnesty International (b. 1921)
• 2008 » Hans Raj Khanna, Indian judge and advocate; upholder of civil liberties (b. 1912)
• 2010 » Ihsan Dogramaci, Turkish pediatrician and academic (b. 1915)
• 2012 » Louisiana Red, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932)

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.
• January 20 » President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
• April 16 » India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
• 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.
• October 7 » The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
• 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 2 » Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The temperature on February 25, 2001 was between -2.6 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.