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• Antje Magaretha Wigboldus (83), Voorburg ( ZH )
• Abigael van der Linden (98), Leiden
• Brigitte d'Orsini et Rosenberg (44), Salzbourg, Salzbourg, Autriche
• Anna Dorothea Maria van Houten (79), Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Konijn (75)
• Doris Frances Conover (77), Southampton, Virginia, United States
• Bertus Ories SCHUITMAN (85), Jenison, Ottawa County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• August Nicolaas Groeneveld (69), 's-Gravenhage
• Anna Maria Verbocht (88), Roosendaal, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Catharina (Annie) Smits (88), Zeddam

• 1988 » Andrew Ogilvy, Australian basketball player
• 1988 » Shaun MacDonald, Welsh footballer
• 1988 » Stephanie Rice, Australian swimmer
• 1989 » Georgios Tofas, Cypriot footballer
• 1989 » Simone Battle, American singer and actress († 2014)
• 1990 » Jordan Henderson, English footballer
• 1990 » Josh Mansour, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Daniel Tupou, Australian-Tongan rugby league player
• 1994 » Amari Cooper, American football player
• 1995 » Clément Lenglet, French footballer

• 1996 » Curt Swan, American illustrator (b. 1920)
• 1996 » Thomas Kuhn, American historian and philosopher (b. 1922)
• 1999 » Basil Hume, English cardinal (b. 1923)
• 2000 » Ismail Mahomed, South African lawyer and jurist, 17th Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1931)
• 2001 » Donald J. Cram, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1919)
• 2001 » Thomas Winning, Scottish cardinal (b. 1925)
• 2002 » Fritz Walter, German footballer (b. 1920)
• 2002 » Willie Davenport, American sprinter and hurdler (b. 1943)
• 2004 » Gerry McNeil, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
• 2006 » Bussunda, Brazilian comedian (b. 1962)

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. Julia
4. Maria
5. Emma
6. Anna
7. Laura
8. Sanne
9. Tessa
10. Romy
11. Iris
12. Charlotte
13. Fleur
14. Femke
15. Merel
16. Anne

• 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 14 » A United Nations tribunal sentences five Roman Catholic Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
• March 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
• March 27 » A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
• July 25 » Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 people.
• September 30 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.
• December 31 » The last day of the 20th Century and 2nd Millennium.

The temperature on June 17, 2000 was between 6.0 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 15.1 hours of sunshine (90%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.