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• Esther Wilhelmina (Esther) van Soeren, Oene († 2001)

• Francina Carolina Reinarda le Grom (86), Zeist
• * Johanna Gerdina (Annie) Kors (71), Hillegom
• Fenje Struiksma (75), Ter Apel
• Annie Steenvoorden (71), Anna Paulowna
• August Eduard Remeeus (48), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Dirk Lassche (92), Almelo
• Cornelia Petronella de Bekker (81), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Avadna Mae BECKER (81), Mendon Saint Joseph County Michigan U.S.A
• Francina Caroline Reinarda Le Grom (86), Zeist
• Geertruida Maria Dam (102), Ursem

• 1988 » Hoodie Allen, American rapper
• 1988 » Kirk Cousins, American football player
• 1988 » Veronica Roth, American author
• 1989 » Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper, actor
• 1990 » Danny Galbraith, Scottish footballer
• 1994 » Fernando Gaviria, Colombian cyclist
• 1994 » Guadalupe Pérez Rojas, Argentinian tennis player
• 1994 » Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete and heptathlete
• 1995 » Dylan Phythian, Australian rugby league player
• 1996 » Hsu Ching-wen, Taiwanese tennis player

• 1993 » Utpal Dutt, Bangladeshi actor, director, and playwright (b. 1929)
• 1994 » Linus Pauling, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1995 » Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and musicologist (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Bineshwar Brahma, Indian poet, author, and educator (b. 1948)
• 2000 » Theodore Trautwein, American lawyer and judge (b. 1920)
• 2001 » Donald Woods, South African journalist and activist (b. 1933)
• 2003 » Carlos Roberto Reina, Honduran lawyer and politician, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
• 2005 » Mo Mowlam, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1949)
• 2008 » Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Zambia (b. 1948)

• 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.
• 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.
• April 16 » India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
• May 3 » The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
• September 27 » In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
• 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 13 » War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.

The temperature on August 19, 2001 was between 16.8 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 19.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.