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• Jade Jendoubi († 2001)

• David Cameron Espuet (64), Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
• Anna Rombaut (81), Brasschaat, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Cornelis marijnus Havermans (72)
• Cornelis Johannes Bulte (89), Heiloo
• Angela Marie Hale (24), Murray, Calloway, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus_Jacobus Romani (86), Leidschendam
• Andre Verbrugghe (88), Ieper
• Arend Jan Vrugte (76), Baarn
• Bernhard Werkman (87), Brunssum {LI}
• Bernardina Clara Nicolaas (83), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1992 » Chad le Clos, South African swimmer
• 1993 » Jordan Archer, English-Scottish footballer
• 1993 » Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1994 » Eric Bailly, Ivorian professional footballer
• 1994 » Guido Rodríguez, Argentine footballer
• 1994 » Isabelle Drummond, Brazilian actress and singer
• 1994 » Oh Sehun, South Korean musician
• 1994 » Saoirse Ronan, American-born Irish actress
• 1995 » Pedro Cachín, Argentine tennis player
• 1996 » Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russian tennis player

• 1997 » George Wald, American neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1998 » Robert Ford, Canadian poet and diplomat (b. 1915)
• 1999 » Boxcar Willie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
• 2001 » Harvey Ball, American illustrator, created the smiley (b. 1921)
• 2002 » George Shevelov, Ukrainian-American linguist and philologist (b. 1908)
• 2004 » Moran Campbell, Canadian physician and academic, invented the venturi mask (b. 1925)
• 2006 » William Sloane Coffin, American minister and activist (b. 1924)
• 2007 » Kevin Crease, Australian journalist (b. 1936)
• 2008 » Cecilia Colledge, English-American figure skater and coach (b. 1920)
• 2008 » Patrick Hillery, Irish physician and politician, 6th President of Ireland (b. 1923)

• 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.
• February 18 » FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
• June 8 » Mamoru Takuma kills eight and injures 15 in a mass stabbing at an elementary school in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.
• September 17 » The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
• September 21 » Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
• October 8 » U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
• October 26 » The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.

The temperature on April 12, 2001 was between 0.7 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.