* 1916 – Claude Shannon, American engineer and mathematician ( d. 2001 )

* 1925 – Corinne Calvet, French actress ( d. 2001 )

* 1945 – Mimi Fariña, American singer-songwriter, musician, and activist ( d. 2001 )

* 1908 – Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer ( d. 2001 )

* 1918 – Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 2001 )

* 2001 – Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.

* 1918 – Norman Granz, American record producer ( d. 2001 )

* 2001 – Ty Simpkins, American actor

* 1911 – Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer ( d. 2001 )

* 1914 – Tove Jansson, Finnish author ( d. 2001 )

* 1942 – Tommie Agee, American baseball player ( d. 2001 )

* 1976 – Nawaf al-Hazmi, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 ( d. 2001 )

* 1954 – Nico Assumpção, Brazilian bass player ( d. 2001 )

* 1972 – Hani Hanjour, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 ( d. 2001 )

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After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

The wicketkeeper-batsman position was held by Ian Healy for most of the 1990s and by Adam Gilchrist from 2001 to 2006 – 07.

* 1912 – Vladimir Žerjavić, Croatian economist ( d. 2001 )

* 1914 – Beatrice Straight, American actress ( d. 2001 )

* 1924 – Carroll O ' Connor, American actor ( d. 2001 )

* 2001 – Olivia Barclay, British astrologer ( b. 1919 )

* 2001 – Jo-Jo Moore, American baseball player ( b. 1908 )

* 2001: Best Screenplay ( Y tu mamá también, won )

In their first five seasons of existence, the Diamondbacks won three division titles ( 1999, 2001, 2002 ) a National League pennant ( 2001 ) and a World Series championship ( 2001 ).

The Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) and The Left ( Die Linke ) took control of the city government after the 2001 state election and won another term in the 2006 state election.

Barry Bonds has won the most often ( seven times ) and the most consecutively ( 2001 – 04 ).

The award has drawn criticism in recent years because several players with experience in Nippon Professional Baseball ( NPB ) have won the award, such as Hideo Nomo in 1995, Kazuhiro Sasaki in 2000, and Ichiro Suzuki in 2001.

The club won its first AFL Premiership by defeating Essendon 15. 18 ( 108 ) to 12. 10 ( 82 ) in the 2001 AFL Grand Final.

Déby won a flawed 63 % first-round victory in May 2001 presidential elections after legislative elections were postponed until spring 2002.

Other roles include: starring opposite Jim Carrey in the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon ( 1999 ); as Joan Vollmer in Beat ( 2000 ) alongside Kiefer Sutherland ; and a leading role in Julie Johnson ( 2001 ) as Lili Taylor's lesbian lover, for which she won an Outstanding Actress award at L. A .' s Outfest.

In 2002, the Call of Cthulhu 20th Anniversary Edition won the Origins Award for Best Graphic Presentation of a Book Product 2001.

The CLP won control of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly at every election until 2001, when the ALP won.

In 2001, the Panthers won their season opener 24 – 13 over the Vikings, but set a ( then ) NFL record by losing 15 consecutive games to finish the season 1 – 15.

Grady Sizemore, who had a. 995 fielding percentage and only two errors in 405 chances, won the Gold Glove award, Cleveland's first since 2001.

The episode attracted an audience of 16. 8 million and in the 2001 British Soap Awards won Best Storyline.

In the final lap of the 2001 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 500, Harvick beat Jeff Gordon by. 006 seconds, the same margin that Earnhardt had won over Bobby Labonte at the same race a year prior, and the images of Earnhardt's longtime gas man, Danny " Chocolate " Myers, crying after the victory, Harvick's tire-smoking burnout on the frontstretch with three fingers held aloft outside the driver's window, and the Fox television call by Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds, and Darrell Waltrip, concluding with " Gordon got loose, but he ( Harvick ) is gonna get him though, it's Harvick!

Park won the very next NASCAR Winston Cup race: The Dura Lube 400 at North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham, NC held on February 26, 2001.

* Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the Pepsi 400 on July 7, 2001.

He also won the 2001 Most Popular Driver award at the end of the year in the awards ' ceremony banquet.

An example of this is the United States Department of Defense, which won the award three times in 1991, 1993, and 2001 respectively.

Enya won an Echo Award for best selling international single in Germany of 2001, and received a nomination for best selling album.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

In 2001 Conté organized and won a referendum to lengthen the presidential term and in 2003 begun his third term after elections were boycotted by the opposition.