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• Troy Jozef Bentsen, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

• Alverness Marshall Mattingly (78), Los Vegas, Nevada
• Agnes Margaret Rabby (81)
• Anna Margaretha van GINK (88), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Annetje Perier (79), Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Everdina van den Noort (86), Gorssel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Audry Gladys RIPPERTON (103), Johnson County,Iowa
• Ane Steringa (90), Sneek, Gem. Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Aplonia Christina van Schooten (55), Haarlem
• Christiaan Henricus Elbers (86), Heerlen, Nederland
• Apollonia Christina van Schooten (55), Haarlem

• 1989 » Siosia Vave, Australian-Tongan rugby league player
• 1991 » Bastian Baker, Swiss singer, songwriter, and performer
• 1991 » Emre Colak, Turkish footballer
• 1992 » Cate Campbell, Malawian-Australian swimmer
• 1992 » Enes Kanter, Turkish basketball player
• 1992 » Jack Gleeson, Irish actor
• 1993 » Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
• 1996 » Brian Kelly, Australian rugby league player
• 1998 » Jamie Chadwick, English race car driver
• 1998 » Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater

• 1995 » Les Cowie, Australian rugby league player (b. 1925)
• 1996 » Jon Pertwee, English actor, portrayed the Third Doctor (b. 1919)
• 1998 » Robert Normann, Norwegian guitarist (b. 1916)
• 2000 » Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Malik Sealy, American basketball player and actor (b. 1970)
• 2000 » Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1933)
• 2001 » Renato Carosone, Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1920)
• 2002 » Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, biologist, and academic (b. 1941)
• 2005 » Paul Ricœur, French philosopher and academic (b. 1913)
• 2005 » William Seawell, American general (b. 1918)

1. Thomas
2. Lucas
3. Robin
4. Jan
5. Daan
6. Lars
7. Max
8. Bram
9. Tim
10. Ruben
11. Jasper
12. Thijs
13. Jacob
14. Niels
15. Sander
16. Stijn

1. Emma
2. Britt
3. Femke
4. Julia
5. Sophie
6. Ilse
7. Amber
8. Sanne
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 16 » US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
• February 11 » A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
• May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
• July 2 » The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
• September 11 » The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated suicide attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
• November 12 » In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.

The temperature on May 20, 2001 was between 3.7 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.