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• Quinten Sebastiaan Goutier, Almere, Flevoland, Nederland
• Femke Lisanne Duijst, Veenendaal
• Quinten Sebastiaan Goutier, Almere
• Bob Steur († 2006)

• Aloysius (Louis) van Opstal (81), Merksplas, Belgium
• Charles Lawrence Stankus (50), Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Fake IJken (93), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Evelina Gezina van Peski (90)
• Dell Richard Stanger (77), Preston, Franklin County, Idaho, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Johanna Clasina Hoogenstraaten (93), Sassenheim
• Carolus Josephus Okhuijsen (76), Someren, Nederland
• Aufine Flikkema (94), Bierum, Groningen, Nederland
• Esther Mae Mayland (49), Storm Lk., Buena Vista Co., IA
• Elisabeth Pieternella Maria Muilman (78), ,, Delft, Nederland

• 1988 » Hoodie Allen, American rapper
• 1988 » Kirk Cousins, American football player
• 1988 » Veronica Roth, American author
• 1989 » Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper, actor
• 1990 » Danny Galbraith, Scottish footballer
• 1994 » Fernando Gaviria, Colombian cyclist
• 1994 » Guadalupe Pérez Rojas, Argentinian tennis player
• 1994 » Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete and heptathlete
• 1995 » Dylan Phythian, Australian rugby league player
• 1996 » Hsu Ching-wen, Taiwanese tennis player

• 1993 » Utpal Dutt, Bangladeshi actor, director, and playwright (b. 1929)
• 1994 » Linus Pauling, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1995 » Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and musicologist (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Bineshwar Brahma, Indian poet, author, and educator (b. 1948)
• 2000 » Theodore Trautwein, American lawyer and judge (b. 1920)
• 2001 » Donald Woods, South African journalist and activist (b. 1933)
• 2003 » Carlos Roberto Reina, Honduran lawyer and politician, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
• 2005 » Mo Mowlam, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1949)
• 2008 » Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Zambia (b. 1948)

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 14 » The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
• May 2 » President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
• May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
• November 7 » Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.
• November 13 » Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
• November 15 » A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.

The temperature on August 19, 2000 was between 14.1 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.