About the day » Wednesday July 21, 2004Calender converter

• Gedion Schoop, Curaçao

• Albertus David Roest (71), Bussum
• Cornelis Johannes van der Drift (74)
• Anneken CAPEL (82), Apeldoorn
• Ad Appels (68), Roermond
• Afke van Oosten (86), Heerenveen
• Aaltje de Kwaadsteniet (80), Amsterdam
• Andries Posthumus (97)
• Adrianus (Aad) Horsman (64), Lisse NL
• Adrianus Carel Sterk (97), Zoetermeer
• Cornelia Kortleven (83)

• 1988 » KB, American rapper
• 1989 » Juno Temple, English actress
• 1989 » Marco Fabián, Mexican footballer
• 1990 » Chris Martin, English footballer
• 1990 » Erislandy Savón, Cuban amateur heavyweight boxer
• 1990 » Franck Elemba, Congolese athlete
• 1990 » Jason Roy, English cricketer
• 1991 » Sara Sampaio, Portuguese model
• 1992 » Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
• 1996 » Mikael Ingebrigtsen, Norwegian footballer

• 2000 » Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author (b. 1948)
• 2002 » Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (b. 1908)
• 2003 » John Davies, English-New Zealand runner and coach (b. 1938)
• 2004 » Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2004 » Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (b. 1929)
• 2005 » Long John Baldry, English-Canadian singer and actor (b. 1941)
• 2005 » Lord Alfred Hayes, English-American wrestler and manager (b. 1928)
• 2006 » Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-American actor and singer (b. 1933)
• 2006 » Ta Mok, Cambodian soldier and monk (b. 1926)
• 2007 » Dubravko Škiljan, Croatian linguist and academic (b. 1949)

1. Samuel
2. Thomas
3. Sam
4. Lucas
5. Sem
6. Jelle
7. Daan
8. Lars
9. Niels
10. Claus-casimir
11. Tim
12. Thijs
13. Noah
14. Max
15. Johannes
16. Nick

1. Amber
2. Sanne
3. Anna
4. Emma
5. Lotte
6. Isa
7. Anne
8. Iris
9. Lisa
10. Chiara
11. Femke
12. Ameila
13. Julia
14. Noa
15. Charlotte
16. Anouk

• 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 Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• March 29 » Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
• April 3 » Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
• May 29 » The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
• November 9 » Firefox 1.0 is released.
• November 11 » The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
• December 25 » The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.

The temperature on July 21, 2004 was between 12.8 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.