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Born on Tuesday August 21, 2001
- Lisa Veldhuis, Epe-Oene, Gelderland, Nederland († 2005)
- Tristan Augusto Gerding, Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
Died on Tuesday August 21, 2001
- Burl Edward Talley (78)
- E. P. Lamb [sMs] (73), Bentonville, Benton County, Arkansas
- ALIDA ELSINA SCHOUTEN (85), AMSTERDAM
- Catharina Petronella Lucia van Diest (61), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Alida Elsina Schouten (85), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Betty Lou Kaminga (65)
- Edith Mae Vietor (75)
- Coletta Maria de HERDT (93), Berendrecht, Antwerpen, Belgie
- Abraham den Besten (87), Amstelveen, Nederland
- * Maria Theodora Slegers (84), Helvoirt
Born on August 21
- 1988 » Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer
- 1989 » Aleix Vidal, Spanish footballer
- 1989 » Charlison Benschop, Dutch footballer
- 1989 » Hayden Panettiere, American actress
- 1989 » James Davey, English rugby league player
- 1989 » Matteo Gentili, Italian footballer
- 1990 » Bo Burnham, American comedian, musician, actor, filmmaker and poet
- 1991 » Leandro Bacuna, Dutch footballer
- 1992 » Felipe Nasr, Brazilian race car driver
- 2000 » Kate Valdez, Filipina actress and singer
Died on August 21
- 2000 » Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1928)
- 2000 » Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
- 2000 » Tomata du Plenty, American singer-songwriter and playwright (b. 1948)
- 2001 » Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
- 2003 » John Coplans, British artist (b. 1920)
- 2003 » Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and academic (b. 1946)
- 2004 » Sachidananda Routray, Indian Oriya-language poet (b. 1916)
- 2005 » Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet and translator (b. 1936)
- 2005 » Martin Dillon, American tenor and educator (b. 1957)
- 2005 » Robert Moog, American businessman, founded Moog Music (b. 1934)
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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.
- January 20 » President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
- 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.
- May 6 » During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
- June 21 » A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
- September 11 » The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated suicide attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
- September 21 » Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.
Weather August 21, 2001
The temperature on August 21, 2001 was between 9.5 °C and 24.8 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.