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• Sil Floris Duckers, Elst
• Justice Lee Kennedy Berends, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 2000)
• Peter David Luke van den Hurk († 2009)

• Agnes Fricker (90), Saegertown, Crawford, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Elisabeth (Lies) Jacobs (83), Weert, Limburg, Nederland
• Froukje Bouius (47)
• Anthonia Maria van Gelderen (81), Rhenen
• Antonetta Gerdina van Ooijen (94), Vlijmen
• Elisabeth (Lies) Jacobs (22.6.4.6) (83), Weert
• Anna Cornelia Josepha Van Beeck (61), Merksem
• Clara Cecila Bieber (90), Lyndhurst, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Regina Bennenbroek (87), Deurne
• Frances Henrietta MONTAGU DOUGLAS SCOTT (60)

• 1988 » Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer
• 1989 » Aleix Vidal, Spanish footballer
• 1989 » Charlison Benschop, Dutch footballer
• 1989 » Hayden Panettiere, American actress
• 1989 » James Davey, English rugby league player
• 1989 » Matteo Gentili, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Bo Burnham, American comedian, musician, actor, filmmaker and poet
• 1991 » Leandro Bacuna, Dutch footballer
• 1992 » Felipe Nasr, Brazilian race car driver
• 2000 » Kate Valdez, Filipina actress and singer

• 1995 » Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (b. 1919)
• 1995 » Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1928)
• 2000 » Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
• 2000 » Tomata du Plenty, American singer-songwriter and playwright (b. 1948)
• 2001 » Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
• 2003 » John Coplans, British artist (b. 1920)
• 2003 » Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and academic (b. 1946)
• 2004 » Sachidananda Routray, Indian Oriya-language poet (b. 1916)
• 2005 » Martin Dillon, American tenor and educator (b. 1957)

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. Noah
15. Ruben
16. David

1. Amber
2. Lisa
3. Julia
4. Maria
5. Emma
6. Anna
7. Laura
8. Sanne
9. Romy
10. Tessa
11. Iris
12. Charlotte
13. Fleur
14. Merel
15. Femke
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.
• February 29 » Second Chechen War: Eighty-four Russian paratroopers are killed in a rebel attack on a guard post near Ulus Kert.
• May 24 » Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
• September 15 » The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XXVII Olympiad, are opened in Sydney, Australia.
• November 1 » The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
• November 15 » Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.
• November 25 » The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.

The temperature on August 21, 2000 was between 10.7 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.