About the day » Thursday July 5, 2001Calender converter

• Markwell Leslie PRACIAK, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 2002)
• melissa van lier, helden-dorp

• Annie Vink (78)
• Catharina Elisabeth Oudkerk (90), Rotterdam
• Cor Odijk
• "Bernard" Marie Georges Albert Colonne (70), Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, France
• Catharina Maria Roks (87), Standdaarbuiten,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christina Cornelia Schuermans (85), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bertus Johannes Marinus Kleij (88)
• Aart Elbertsen (81)
• Jan Tjalsma (62), Warns
• Claire José (Claire) Coenen (55)

• 1988 » Martin Liivamägi, Estonian swimmer
• 1989 » Charlie Austin, English footballer
• 1989 » Dwight King, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Georgios Efrem, Cypriot footballer
• 1990 » Abeba Aregawi, Ethiopian-Swedish runner
• 1992 » Alberto Moreno, Spanish footballer
• 1992 » Chiara Scholl, American tennis player
• 1993 » Yaroslav Kosov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1994 » Diana Harkusha, Ukrainian lawyer, dancer, model and beauty queen
• 1994 » Shohei Ohtani, Japanese baseball player

• 1997 » A. Thangathurai, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (b. 1936)
• 1998 » Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)
• 2002 » Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)
• 2002 » Ted Williams, American baseball player and manager (b. 1918)
• 2004 » Hugh Shearer, Jamaican journalist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
• 2004 » Rodger Ward, American race car driver and sportscaster (b. 1921)
• 2005 » James Stockdale, American admiral (b. 1923)
• 2006 » Gert Fredriksson, Swedish canoe racer (b. 1919)
• 2006 » Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942)
• 2006 » Thirunalloor Karunakaran, Indian poet and scholar (b. 1924)

• 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 » Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
• January 16 » US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
• 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.
• October 4 » Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
• October 7 » The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
• October 11 » The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.

The temperature on July 5, 2001 was between 16.3 °C and 31.6 °C and averaged 25.2 °C. There was 14.7 hours of sunshine (89%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.