About the day » Tuesday August 14, 2001Calender converter

• Edouard HERINCKX, Brussel (B) († 2001)
• Kayleigh Hoefnagels

• Cornelis Jaspers (42), Harderwijk
• Berber (Barbara) Strikwerda (82), Ganges, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
• Catharina Jacomina Meulenberg (89)
• Aartje Logtenberg (88), Heerde
• Ann Margaretha (82), Nijmegen
• Ada Callenbach (85), Leidschendam
• Antonia Johanna van der Helm (91), Naaldwijk
• Anne Tjamme Spijksma (50), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• "Chiara" Maria Pierina Leona Eva Asinari (98), Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France
• Aaltje Smit (75), Roosendaal, Netherlands

• 1985 » Christian Gentner, German footballer
• 1985 » Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 » Braian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer
• 1986 » Cameron Jerome, English footballer
• 1986 » Sam Moa, Tongan-New Zealand rugby league player
• 1987 » Tim Tebow, American football and baseball player, television personality and sportscaster
• 1989 » Ander Herrera, Spanish footballer
• 1989 » Florian Abel, German footballer
• 1989 » Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1991 » Richard Freitag, German ski jumper

• 1996 » Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
• 1999 » Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1918)
• 2000 » Alain Fournier, French-Canadian computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)
• 2002 » Larry Rivers, American painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
• 2003 » Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
• 2004 » Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born American novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2004 » Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
• 2006 » Adriaan de Groot, Dutch psychologist and chess player (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
• 2007 » Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli politician (b. 1939)

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

1. Emma
2. Britt
3. Femke
4. Julia
5. Ilse
6. Sophie
7. Sanne
8. Amber
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 15 » Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
• January 26 » The 7.7 M_w Gujarat earthquake shakes Western India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 13,805–20,023 dead and about 166,800 injured.
• February 13 » An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944.
• March 16 » A series of bomb blasts that took place in the city of Shijiazhuang, China killed 108 people and injured 38 others, was the biggest mass murder in China in decades.
• 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.
• June 11 » Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

The temperature on August 14, 2001 was between 14.0 °C and 28.6 °C and averaged 21.6 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (83%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.