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• Alice de Quant (75), Bilthoven, Netherlands
• Dirk Beets (86), Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Smit (81), Buitenpost
• Adrie Blokland (65), Rijnsburg
• Elisabeth Hendrika Cornelia Verhees (77), Aalst
• Elisabeth Manders (86)
• Arline Marcia de Klerk (70), Pietermaritzburg (ZA)
• C. Nieuwenhuis (91), Utrecht
• Anita Desrosiers Dumas (55)
• Eduardus Van der dood (68), Bornem

• 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)

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 » George W. Bush is inaugurated the 43rd President of the United States of America.
• January 23 » Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
• April 1 » An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China and is detained.
• May 25 » Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull.
• September 21 » America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
• 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 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.