About the day » Wednesday August 11, 2004Calender converter

• Albert Karel Hendrik Offereins (84), Hilversum
• Carolina Jacomina Rusconi (84), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Celina Paulina Ludovica Danis (75), Ekeren, Antwerpen
• Anton ten Westenend (52)
• Adriana Catharina Frederica Maria Koenraads (82), Breda
• Bertien Bouvrie (73), Maastricht,, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Veldhuijzen (94), Voorschoten
• Dirk Cornelis Schering (90), Schagen
• "Jacqueline" Marguerite Marie de Simard de Pitray (97), Versailles, Yvelines, France
• Fannie A Kampman (88), Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa

• 1988 » Patty Mills, Australian basketball player
• 1988 » Rabeh Al-Hussaini, Filipino basketball player
• 1989 » Junior Heffernan, Irish cyclist and triathlete († 2013)
• 1989 » Sebastian Huke, German footballer
• 1990 » Lenka Juríková, Slovak tennis player
• 1991 » Cristian Tello, Spanish footballer
• 1994 » Anton Cooper, New Zealand cross-country cyclist
• 1994 » Joseph Barbato, French footballer
• 1994 » Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player
• 1997 » Sarah Clelland, Scottish footballer

• 1996 » Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1914)
• 2000 » Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer and academic (b. 1916)
• 2001 » Percy Stallard, English cyclist and coach (b. 1909)
• 2002 » Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountaineer (b. 1940)
• 2003 » Armand Borel, Swiss-American mathematician and academic (b. 1923)
• 2003 » Herb Brooks, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1937)
• 2006 » Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1920)
• 2008 » Dursun Karataş, founding leader of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party–Front (DHKP-C) in Turkey (b. 1952)
• 2008 » George Furth, American actor and playwright (b. 1932)
• 2009 » Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, founded the Special Olympics (b. 1921)

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

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

• 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.
• February 5 » Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
• February 27 » Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack.
• April 24 » The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
• August 13 » One hundred fifty-six Congolese Tutsi refugees are massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
• October 4 » SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
• October 14 » Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in Jefferson City, Missouri. The two pilots (the aircraft's only occupants) are killed.

The temperature on August 11, 2004 was between 17.2 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 21.0 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.