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• Arjan de Loos (22), Den Helder
• Ardiena van Teeffelen (97), Hulsberg
• Bernardina Anna Catharina Wilhelmina Weijs (85), Maasbree, Limburg, Nederland
• Altburg Marie Mathilde Olga Oldenburg (98), Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Prussia
• Carol June Caldwell (49), Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma
• B.H.H. van de Pavert (27)
• Bernadette Marie Nobbe (79), Ohio
• Antje de Zoete (94), 's-Gravenzande(ZH)
• Alexander Hüsing (77), Papenburg
• Arie Bakker (83), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1991 » Joe McElderry, English singer-songwriter
• 1992 » Vladimir Morozov, Russian swimmer
• 1993 » Gnash, American singer, songwriter, rapper, DJ and record producer
• 1993 » Park Bo-gum, South Korean actor
• 1994 » Grete-Lilijane Küppas, Estonian footballer
• 1994 » Rezar, Albanian professional wrestler
• 1995 » Akira Ioane, New Zealand rugby Union player
• 1995 » Euan Aitken, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Joseph Schooling, Singaporean swimmer
• 2000 » Bianca Andreescu, Canadian tennis player

• 1994 » Kristen Pfaff, American bass player and songwriter (b. 1967)
• 1996 » Mel Allen, American sportscaster and game show host (b. 1913)
• 1997 » Dal Stivens, Australian soldier and author (b. 1911)
• 1998 » Fred Wacker, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1918)
• 1999 » Screaming Lord Sutch, English singer and activist (b. 1940)
• 2003 » Georg Henrik von Wright, Finnish–Swedish philosopher and author (b. 1916)
• 2003 » Pierre Bourgault, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1934)
• 2004 » Jacques Miquelon, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1911)
• 2004 » Thanom Kittikachorn, Thai field marshal and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1911)
• 2005 » Enrique Laguerre, Puerto Rican-American author and critic (b. 1906)

• 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 31 » In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
• April 11 » The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
• May 9 » In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of tear gas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
• June 10 » Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
• October 15 » NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
• December 11 » The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).

The temperature on June 16, 2001 was between 10.2 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.