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• Katherine Cinda JONIS († 2008)

• Alexander Henry Gillam (61), Rotorua, New Zealand
• Anna Maria Velds (88), Rotterdam
• Antoni Jochaniak (80), Deventer,Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Catharina Maria de Graaf (87), Limmen
• Catharina Hendrika Appel (67), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Adelerhof (79), Teuge, GLD, Nederland
• Catharina Maria de Graaf (87), Limmen
• Constantia Maria Elisabeth Delbaen (85)
• Adriana KAPITEIJN (83), Breda
• Albertus Joannes PAULISSEN (79), Hasselt (Limburg) (B)

• 1989 » Blake Griffin, American basketball player
• 1989 » Jung So-min, South Korean actress
• 1990 » Andre Young, American basketball player
• 1991 » Reggie Bullock, American basketball player
• 1991 » Wolfgang Van Halen, American bassist
• 1993 » George Ford, English rugby union player
• 1993 » Marine Lorphelin, Miss France
• 1994 » Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player
• 1995 » Inga Janulevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater
• 1997 » Florian Neuhaus, German football player

• 1998 » Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1998 » Esther Bubley, American photographer (b. 1921)
• 1999 » Gratien Gélinas, Canadian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1909)
• 2000 » Carlos Velázquez, Puerto Rican pitcher (b. 1948)
• 2000 » Michael Starr, Canadian judge and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of Labour (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Pavel Prudnikau, Belarusian poet and author (b. 1911)
• 2000 » Thomas Ferebee, American colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943)
• 2003 » Rachel Corrie, American activist (b. 1979)
• 2003 » Ronald Ferguson, English captain, polo player, and manager (b. 1931)

1. Thomas
2. Robin
3. Lucas
4. Jan
5. Daan
6. Lars
7. Max
8. Bram
9. Tim
10. Ruben
11. Jasper
12. Thijs
13. Jacob
14. Sander
15. Niels
16. Stijn

1. Emma
2. Britt
3. Femke
4. Ilse
5. Sophie
6. Julia
7. Sanne
8. Amber
9. Anna
10. Laura
11. Lisa
12. Fleur
13. Anne
14. Charlotte
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 29 » Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
• May 3 » The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
• June 15 » Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
• 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 21 » Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
• November 13 » War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.

The temperature on March 16, 2001 was between 5.1 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.