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Died on Sunday August 12, 2001
- Cornelia Antonia Verspaget (90), Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Jannink (65)
- Cornelia Gerarda van den Brink- (90), Gendt, Nederland
- Edward Roy Stuck (83), Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
- Edith Mary Hazel Phillips (78), Bradford on Avon, Wilts
- Ditte Johanna van Hoorn Alkema (91)
- Axel Adolf Theodore Frederik Vrijheer Varnbüler van en tot Hemmingen (92), Aken, Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Albert Schonewille (86), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
- Bernardus Hendrik Hendrix (73), Meerlo, Limburg, Nederland
- Engelbertha van den Burg (78)
Born on August 12
- 1992 » Cara Delevingne, English model and actress
- 1992 » Isabella Escobar, Guatemalan tennis player
- 1992 » Jacob Loko, Australian rugby player
- 1992 » Teo Gheorghiu, Swiss pianist and actor
- 1993 » Ewa Farna, Czech singer-songwriter
- 1993 » Luna, South Korean singer, actress and presenter
- 1996 » Julio Urías, Mexican baseball player
- 1998 » Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greek tennis player
- 1999 » Matthijs de Ligt, Dutch footballer
- 2000 » Tristan Charpentier, French racing driver
Died on August 12
- 1996 » Mark Gruenwald, American author and illustrator (b. 1953)
- 1996 » Victor Ambartsumian, Georgian-Armenian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1908)
- 1997 » Jack Delano, American photographer and composer (b. 1914)
- 1999 » Jean Drapeau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Montreal (b. 1916)
- 2000 » Gennady Lyachin, Russian captain (b. 1955)
- 2000 » Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
- 2002 » Enos Slaughter, American baseball player and manager (b. 1916)
- 2004 » Godfrey Hounsfield, English biophysicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
- 2005 » John Loder, English sound engineer and producer, founded Southern Studios (b. 1946)
- 2006 » Victoria Gray Adams, American civil rights activist (b. 1926)
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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.
- March 23 » The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
- July 17 » Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
- 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.
- September 4 » Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
- September 13 » Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
- 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.
Weather August 12, 2001
The temperature on August 12, 2001 was between 14.5 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 7.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.