About the day » Saturday April 21, 2001Calender converter

• London Andrew Fox, Vancouver, BC, Canada

• Anna Maria Peters (90), Weiteveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna (Johanna) Maria van 't Wout (84), Purmerend
• Andreas van der Meijden (70)
• Arie van der Meij (86), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria van Wijk (73), Haarsteeg
• Alberta Maria Kauwen (87), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Storm (76), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Charles J. Huizenga (82), Thomson Carroll Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Antonia Johanna Kerkhoff (88), Groesbeek
• Bernardus Hendrikus Hentzepeter (59), Arnhem, Nederland

• 1988 » Jencarlos Canela, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1988 » Pedro Mosquera, Spanish footballer
• 1988 » Ricky Berens, American swimmer
• 1989 » Carlos Muñoz, Chilean footballer
• 1989 » Tatyana McFadden, Russian-American sprinter and skier
• 1990 » Aleksandar Prijović, Swiss-born Serbian footballer
• 1992 » Isco, Spanish footballer
• 1992 » Joc Pederson, American baseball player
• 1992 » Rene Santos, Brazilian footballer
• 1994 » Mitchell Weiser, German footballer

• 1996 » Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1925)
• 1996 » Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen general and politician, 1st President of Ichkeria (b. 1944)
• 1996 » Jimmy Snyder, American sportscaster (b. 1919)
• 1996 » Zora Arkus-Duntov, Belgian-born American engineer and race car driver (b. 1909)
• 1998 » Jean-François Lyotard, French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1924)
• 1999 » Buddy Rogers, American actor (b. 1904)
• 2003 » Nina Simone, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and activist (b. 1933)
• 2004 » Mary McGrory, American journalist (b. 1918)
• 2005 » Gerry Marshall, English race car driver and journalist (b. 1941)
• 2006 » Johnny Checketts, New Zealand commander and pilot (b. 1912)

• 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 12 » Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
• January 20 » George W. Bush is inaugurated the 43rd President of the United States of America.
• March 23 » The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
• September 4 » Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
• September 20 » In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".
• December 19 » Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The temperature on April 21, 2001 was between 0.1 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.