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• Esmee Jacqueline van Doorn, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 2004)

• Cornelia Maria GOEDEGEBUURE (93), Sint Annaland
• Albert Lee Roy Chambers (73), Chaffee, Scott, Missouri
• Catherina Cornelia van Noord (95), Dirksland, Goeree-Overflakkee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ad de Hond (59), Breda,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Cees de Ronde (63)
• Bernard A. Prestine (93)
• Bertha Hendrika Lansink (56), Hengelo
• Berber Kalsbeek (87), Nigtevecht (UTR) The Netherlands
• Bessie van Hall (95), Knoxville (USA)
• Bessie van Hal (95), Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa

• 1984 » Vedad Ibišević, Bosnian footballer
• 1985 » Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer
• 1985 » Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer
• 1985 » Mickaël Delage, French cyclist
• 1985 » Viktoria Baškite, Estonian chess player
• 1986 » Mehmet Akgün, Turkish footballer
• 1986 » Raphael Pyrasch, German rugby player
• 1987 » Leanne Crichton, Scottish footballer
• 1991 » Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer
• 1992 » Tara Moore, British tennis player

• 1998 » André Weil, French-American mathematician and academic (b. 1906)
• 2001 » Adhar Kumar Chatterji, Indian Naval officer (b. 1914)
• 2001 » Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930)
• 2001 » Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist and poet (b. 1912)
• 2001 » Shan Ratnam, Sri Lankan physician and academic (b. 1928)
• 2001 » Wilhelm Mohnke, German general (b. 1911)
• 2002 » Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch physicist, computer scientist, and academic (b. 1930)
• 2003 » Julius Baker, American flute player and educator (b. 1915)
• 2004 » Donald Justice, American poet and academic (b. 1925)
• 2004 » Rick James, American singer-songwriter and producer (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.
• June 15 » Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
• June 28 » Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
• July 28 » Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship meeting.
• August 6 » Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to a chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
• October 15 » NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
• December 2 » Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The temperature on August 6, 2001 was between 10.2 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 14.9 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.