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July 30, 2001Born on Tuesday July 31, 2001
- Fabian Nijmeijer († 2001)
Died on Tuesday July 31, 2001
- Pieter de Boer (75), tzum
- Aafje Westeneng (96), Scherpenzeel, Gld, NL
- Adrianus Noorlander (75), Nieuwerkerk aan de IJssel
- Bartele Marinus Stap (75), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
- Aaltje Mulderij (92), Voorthuizen, Gelderland, Nederland
- Carla Olbrechts (57), Brugge
- jacoba vd oever (76), doesburg
- Cornelia Theodora Swaans (81)
- Cornelis Dekker (78)
- Alan Jay ten Haken (60), Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Born on July 31
- 1986 » Brian Orakpo, American football player
- 1986 » Evgeni Malkin, Russian ice hockey player
- 1987 » Michael Bradley, American soccer player
- 1988 » Alex Glenn, New Zealand rugby league player
- 1989 » Victoria Azarenka, Belorussian tennis player
- 1991 » Réka Luca Jani, Hungarian tennis player
- 1992 » José Fernández, Cuban baseball player († 2016)
- 1992 » Kyle Larson, American race car driver
- 1992 » Ryan Johansen, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1994 » Lil Uzi Vert, American hip hop artist
Died on July 31
- 1992 » Leonard Cheshire, English captain and pilot (b. 1917)
- 1993 » Baudouin, King of Belgium (b. 1930)
- 2000 » William Keepers Maxwell Jr., American editor, novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1908)
- 2001 » Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese general and politician, 15th President of Portugal (b. 1914)
- 2001 » Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1910)
- 2003 » Guido Crepax, Italian author and illustrator (b. 1933)
- 2004 » Virginia Grey, American actress (b. 1917)
- 2005 » Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician, 1st President of the European Central Bank (b. 1935)
- 2009 » Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (b. 1933)
- 2009 » Harry Alan Towers, English-Canadian screenwriter and producer (b. 1920)
Names that were popular for boys in 2001
- Thomas
- Jan
- Lucas
- Robin
- Daan
- Lars
- Max
- Tim
- Bram
- Ruben
- Jasper
- Thijs
- Jacob
- Sander
- Niels
- Stijn
Names that were popular for girls in 2001
- Emma
- Britt
- Femke
- Julia
- Ilse
- Sophie
- Sanne
- Amber
- Anna
- Laura
- Lisa
- Fleur
- Charlotte
- Anne
- Maria
- Anastasia
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 2001
- 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.
- May 21 » French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
- June 11 » Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
- July 21 » At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
- November 11 » Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
- November 27 » A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
- December 19 » A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl, Mongolia.
Weather July 31, 2001
The temperature on July 31, 2001 was between 14.6 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.