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• Charles Harlin Lee (84), Verenigde Statn
• Berendina Gerritzen (61), Roden
• Ethel Pauline Hood (96), Jacksonville,Onslow County, North Carolina
• Dirkje Brul (88)
• Annegien Elisabeth Lammegien de Wit (73), Capelle aan den IJssel,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Doris Stark (63), Budel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dieuwke Joeke Bosma (96), Opende,, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelis Henricus Maria Abbeelen van den (46), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berendina Gerritzen (61), Roden
• Alie Bos (92), Castricum

• 1990 » Sierra Kay, American singer-songwriter
• 1991 » Marcus Butler, English internet celebrity
• 1992 » Bridgit Mendler, American singer, songwriter and actress
• 1992 » Ryan Crouser, American shot putter
• 1993 » Ana Porgras, Romanian former artistic gymnast
• 1993 » Byron Buxton, American baseball player
• 1993 » Thomas Lam, Finnish professional football defender
• 1994 » Gerard Gumbau, Spanish professional footballer
• 1994 » Natália Kelly, American-Austrian singer
• 2001 » Billie Eilish, American singer

• 1998 » Lev Dyomin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1926)
• 1999 » Robert Bresson, French director and screenwriter (b. 1901)
• 2000 » Kirsty MacColl, British singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
• 2000 » Randolph Apperson Hearst, American businessman (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Stan Fox, American race car driver (b. 1952)
• 2001 » Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek violinist and composer (b. 1914)
• 2001 » Gilbert Bécaud, French singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1927)
• 2001 » Marcel Mule, French saxophonist and educator (b. 1901)
• 2002 » Necip Hablemitoğlu, Turkish historian and academic (b. 1954)
• 2002 » Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th Governor General of Canada (b. 1934)

1. Thomas
2. Robin
3. Tom
4. Max
5. Tim
6. Niels
7. Justin
8. Jacob
9. Wouter
10. Rick
11. Lars
12. Jan
13. Daan
14. David
15. Ruben
16. Noah

1. Amber
2. Lisa
3. Maria
4. Julia
5. Emma
6. Anna
7. Laura
8. Tessa
9. Sanne
10. Iris
11. Charlotte
12. Romy
13. Fleur
14. Merel
15. Femke
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 Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
• January 31 » Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
• March 21 » Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
• March 27 » A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
• August 11 » An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries.
• November 17 » A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
• November 26 » George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote.

The temperature on December 18, 2000 was between 0.6 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.