About the day » Wednesday May 2, 2001Calender converter

• Jem-Dean Ijserinkhuijsen
• Willem Alen († 2001)

• Anna Maria Hubertina Sillen (64), Swalmen
• Adolf Plas (87), Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aletta van Ginkel (94), Breukelen, Stichtse Vecht, Utr, NL
• Adriana DCdr Zuijderduijn (84), Katwijk
• Barbara Marion Jansen (50), Gouda
• Anna Strikwerda (90)
• Arie Geerlof de Leeuw (69), Hei-en Boeicop
• Alida van der Plas (85)
• Antoinetta Huijbers (90)
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• 1990 » Kay Panabaker, American actress
• 1991 » Jeong Jinwoon, South Korean actor and singer
• 1992 » María Teresa Torró Flor, Spanish tennis player
• 1992 » Sunmi, South Korean singer
• 1993 » Huang Zitao, Chinese singer and rapper
• 1993 » Isyana Sarasvati, Indonesian singer
• 1993 » Owain Doull, Welsh track cyclist
• 1996 » Cherprang Areekul, Thai singer
• 1996 » Julian Brandt, German footballer
• 1996 » Schuyler Bailar, American swimmer

• 1997 » John Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1997 » Paulo Freire, Brazilian philosopher and academic (b. 1921)
• 1998 » Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1998 » hide, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1964)
• 1998 » Justin Fashanu, English footballer (b. 1961)
• 1999 » Douglas Harkness, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1903)
• 1999 » Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
• 2000 » Sundar Popo, Indo-Trinidadian musician (b. 1943)
• 2002 » W. T. Tutte, English-Canadian mathematician and academic (b. 1917)
• 2005 » Wee Kim Wee, Singaporean journalist and politician, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)

• 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 » Sampit conflict: Inter-ethnic violence between Dayaks and Madurese breaks out in Sampit, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, ultimately resulting in more than 500 deaths and 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes.
• 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.
• April 16 » India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
• May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
• May 27 » Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
• August 6 » Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to a chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.

The temperature on May 2, 2001 was between 6.1 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.