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• Julie M. M. Willekens

• Evelyn Elaine Spalding (75), Etters, York County, Pennsylvania
• Andreas Cornelis WEERDENBURG, van (71), Kudelstaart, Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Lubertus de Wit (83), Shell Rock, Iowa
• Agneta Margaretha Catharina Taets van Amerongen (80), Wassenaar, Z.H
• Adriana Johanna Bijlo (85), Bergen
• Carlos Vanden Driessche (69), Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Antje Hidding (79), Stadskanaal, Nederland
• Andries de Vries (75), Dedemsvaart, Overijssel, Nederland
• Andreas Cornelis van Weerdenburg (71), Kudelstaart, Aalsmeer
• Cornelis Matthijs Noorlander (60), Alphen aan de Rijn

• 1992 » Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player († 2013)
• 1992 » Chanel Mata'utia, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 » Paige, English wrestler
• 1993 » Ederson Moraes, Brazilian footballer
• 1993 » Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer
• 1994 » Phoebe Bridgers, American singer/songwriter
• 1995 » Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1995 » Gracie Gold, American figure skater
• 1996 » Jake Virtanen, Canadian ice hockey player
• 2000 » Lil Pump, American rapper and songwriter

• 1994 » Jack Sharkey, American boxer and referee (b. 1902)
• 1994 » Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and businessman (b. 1901)
• 1995 » Howard E. Koch, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1995 » Ted Whitten, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1933)
• 1998 » Tadeusz Ślusarski, Polish pole vaulter (b. 1950)
• 1998 » Władysław Komar, Polish shot putter and actor (b. 1940)
• 2000 » Jack Walker, English businessman (b. 1929)
• 2004 » Thea Astley, Australian author and educator (b. 1925)
• 2005 » John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1934)
• 2006 » Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist (b. 1929)

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.
• 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.
• June 7 » The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
• October 1 » Israel-Palestinian conflict: Palestinians protest the murder of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah by the Israeli police in northern Israel, beginning the "October 2000 events".
• October 2 » The Rijndael algorithm is chosen by NIST as the AES standard.
• October 17 » The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
• October 31 » Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.

The temperature on August 17, 2000 was between 11.5 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.