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August 3, 2001Born on Saturday August 4, 2001
- Sam Levi Baaij, den Helder († 2002)
- Anoeshka Schaap († 2001)
Died on Saturday August 4, 2001
- Doris Kathleen Bublitz (83)
- Engelina,Wilhelmina de Ruijter (91), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Annie Andrea Bonamie (72), Aardenburg,, Zeeland, Nederland
- Engelina Wilhelmina de Ruijter (91), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Cornelia Adriana Tammer (74), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Delbert George Hymer (64), Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States
- Albert KATUIN (76), Emmen Drenthe Netherlands
- Betty Lou Jensen (80)
- Clarence L. Toomsen (76)
- Deane Strating (64), Edina, Hennepin, MN (USA)
Born on August 4
- 1989 » Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1989 » Tomasz Kaczor, Polish sprint canoeist
- 1990 » Hikmet Balioğlu, Turkish footballer
- 1990 » Siim Tenno, Estonian footballer
- 1991 » Izet Hajrović, Bosnian footballer
- 1991 » Thiago Cardoso, Brazilian footballer
- 1992 » Cole Sprouse, American actor
- 1992 » Daniele Garozzo, Italian fencer
- 1992 » Dylan Sprouse, American actor
- 1995 » Bruna Marquezine, Brazilian actress
Died on August 4
- 1996 » Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, author, and television host (b. 1936)
- 1997 » Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian; holds records for the world's substantiated longest-lived person (b. 1875)
- 1998 » Yury Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)
- 1999 » Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)
- 2003 » Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
- 2004 » Hossein Panahi (Persian: حسین پناهی), Iranian actor and poet (b. 1956)
- 2004 » Mary Sherman Morgan, American chemist and engineer (b. 1921)
- 2005 » Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist and theorist (b. 1932)
- 2005 » Iván Szabó, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Finance of Hungary (b. 1934)
- 2007 » Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
Names that were popular for boys in 2001
- Thomas
- Robin
- Lucas
- Jan
- Daan
- Lars
- Max
- Bram
- Tim
- Ruben
- Jasper
- Thijs
- Jacob
- Niels
- Sander
- Stijn
Names that were popular for girls in 2001
- Emma
- Britt
- Femke
- Julia
- Ilse
- Sophie
- Amber
- Sanne
- Anna
- Laura
- Lisa
- Fleur
- Charlotte
- Anne
- Maria
- Anastasia
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 23 » Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
- July 4 » Vladivostock Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Airport killing all 145 people on board.
- November 12 » In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
- December 2 » Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- December 13 » Sansad Bhavan, the building housing the Indian Parliament, is attacked by terrorists. Twelve people are killed, including the terrorists.
- December 19 » Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Weather August 4, 2001
The temperature on August 4, 2001 was between 11.3 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.