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• Donna J. Berning (69), Dayton/Ohio
• Bertha C. Buhs (82), Saint Louis, Missouri
• Corrie Vermeij (57)
• Benjamin F Vandermyde (90)
• Adriana Hartensveld (92), Zwijndrecht, Netherlands
• Emmy Aerts (67)
• Cornelis Gerrit Joosse (81), Nieuw-Loosdrecht
• Elizabeth Gualtieri (77), Bristol, Hartford, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Delphina Constantia Scheyltjens (77), Hoogstraten
• Antje Luimstra (92), -

• 1992 » Josh Hutcherson, American actor and producer
• 1994 » Alex Katz, American baseball player
• 1994 » Olivia Smoliga, American swimmer
• 1994 » Sean Monahan, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1995 » Jessica Hogg, Welsh artistic gymnast
• 1996 » James Graham, British singer
• 1996 » Owen Watkin, Welsh rugby player
• 1997 » Curtis Scott, Australian rugby league player
• 2002 » Iris Apatow, American actress
• 2004 » Darci Lynne, American ventriloquist

• 1998 » Mario Beaulieu, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
• 1998 » Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
• 1999 » Robert Marsden Hope, Australian lawyer and judge (b. 1919)
• 1999 » Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player and coach (b. 1936)
• 2001 » Afsar Ahmad Siddiqui, Bangladesh politician (b. 1935)
• 2001 » Hikmet Şimşek, Turkish conductor (b. 1924)
• 2001 » Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, English academic and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1907)
• 2001 » Richard Buckle, Ballet critic and writer (b. 1916)
• 2002 » Audrey Mestre, French biologist and diver (b. 1974)
• 2002 » Ray Conniff, American bandleader and composer (b. 1916)

• 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.
• September 26 » Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
• 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".
• 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 October 12, 2000 was between 8.8 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.