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• Carmen Engelen, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Chloe Rosez
• William Daniel (Billy) Bruins, Zeeland, Michigan

• Cecile Maria DESOUTTER (91), Lille (FRA)
• Bert Paesen (27), Borgloon, België
• Adriaan Riedeman (87), Den Helder
• Arthur Lee Nederhoff (68), Grundy Center, Grundy County, Iowa
• Agnes Mary Huels (82), Breese, Clinton, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Arie Dijkshoorn (84), Ede, Nederland
• Alida Blitterswijk (88), Bunnik, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelis Kooiman (80)
• Cornelia Johanna Smink (83), Den Helder
• Albert Gerritsen (86), Heerlen

• 1989 » Cally-Jo, English fine artist and tattoo artist
• 1989 » Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014
• 1990 » Abby Mavers, English actress
• 1990 » Luhan, Chinese singer and actor
• 1992 » Kristian Álvarez, Mexican footballer
• 1992 » Marko Meerits, Estonian footballer
• 1995 » Damian McKenzie, New Zealand rugby union player
• 1995 » Jean Marie Dongou, Cameroonian footballer
• 1997 » Alexander "Sascha" Zverev, German tennis player
• 1998 » Zachary Claman DeMelo, Canadian racing driver

• 1995 » Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav communist, politician, theorist and author (b. 1911)
• 1996 » Trần Văn Trà, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1918)
• 1999 » Rick Rude, American wrestler (b. 1958)
• 1999 » Casualties of the Columbine High School massacre:
• 2001 » Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
• 2002 » Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
• 2003 » Bernard Katz, German-English biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2003 » Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
• 2004 » Lizzy Mercier Descloux, French musician, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, writer and painter (b. 1956)
• 2005 » Fumio Niwa, Japanese journalist and author (b. 1904)

1. Thomas
2. Lucas
3. Jan
4. Robin
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. Julia
5. Sophie
6. Ilse
7. Amber
8. Sanne
9. Anna
10. Laura
11. Fleur
12. Lisa
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.
• 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.
• October 8 » U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
• October 17 » Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
• November 30 » Gary Ridgway is apprehended and charged with four murders as the Green River Killer.
• December 22 » Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.

The temperature on April 20, 2001 was between -0.3 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.