About the day » Thursday April 19, 2001Calender converter

• Catharina Vredenburg (99)
• Alfredo Michels (72), São Martinho, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Aaltje Eshuis (94), Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Christiaan Johannes (Christ) van Laarhoven (91), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, Nederland
• Cornelia Baas (93)
• Eric Katz (84), Westminister, Orange, California, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Antonius (Arie) BEKS (74), Vught (NL/NB)
• Alva Ellett DURFEY (83), Gilbert, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States of America
• Aletta Cornelia Hoogeveen (75), Capelle aan de IJssel
• Arie Blokland (65), Rijnsburg

• 1987 » Luigi Giorgi, Italian footballer
• 1988 » Enrique Esqueda, Mexican footballer
• 1989 » Daisuke Watabe, Japanese footballer
• 1989 » Dominik Mader, German footballer
• 1989 » Genoveva Añonma, Equatoguinean footballer
• 1990 » Ayaka Takahashi, Japanese badminton player
• 1990 » Héctor Herrera, Mexican footballer
• 1990 » Jackie Bradley, Jr., American baseball player
• 1990 » Kim Chiu, Filipino actress, singer, and dancer
• 1991 » Steve Cook, English footballer

• 1998 » Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, philosopher, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian-German SS officer (b. 1919)
• 2000 » Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Meldrim Thomson, Jr.. American publisher and politician, 73rd Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1912)
• 2002 » Reginald Rose, American writer (b. 1920)
• 2003 » Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Indian-English caliph (b. 1928)
• 2004 » Jenny Pike, Canadian WWII servicewoman and photographer (b. 1922)
• 2004 » John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (b. 1920)
• 2004 » Norris McWhirter, English author and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (b. 1925)
• 2005 » George P. Cosmatos, Italian-Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1941)

• 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.
• March 4 » BBC bombing: A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring one person; the attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
• June 21 » A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
• July 4 » Vladivostock Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Airport killing all 145 people on board.
• July 21 » At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
• November 11 » Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
• December 19 » A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl, Mongolia.

The temperature on April 19, 2001 was between 1.2 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.