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• Gabriel David Lair, Montgomery County, Ohio († 2000)

• Allen George Delahoussaye (97), New Iberia, Iberia, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten
• Bert (Bertus Christiaan) Heinemeijer (88), Amstelveen
• Bernardina Johanna (Dina) Baten (62), Oud en Nieuw Gastel
• Agatha Broekhuizen (75), IJsselmuiden, Nederland
• Benardus Johannes Schot (62)
• Anna Geertruida Maria (Anny) van Kleinwee (73), Woerden, Nederland
• Antoon Jozef Maria Weytjens (79), Opitter
• Cornelis Edward Arthur Korver (72), Utrecht
• Adriana Willemsen (74)
• Clara Maria Goudswaard (82), Zwolle

• 1991 » Lucy Bronze, English footballer
• 1992 » Maria Sergejeva, Estonian figure skater
• 1994 » Maro Itoje, English rugby union player
• 1995 » Glen Kamara, Finnish footballer
• 1996 » Jack Eichel, American ice hockey player
• 1996 » Jasmine Jessica Anthony, American actress
• 1996 » Una Raymond-Hoey, Irish cricketer
• 1997 » Georgia Godwin, Australian artistic gymnast
• 1997 » Taylor Fritz, American tennis player
• 1998 » Nolan Gould, American actor

• 1997 » Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1915)
• 1998 » Ted Hughes, English poet and playwright (b. 1930)
• 1999 » Antonios Katinaris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
• 2000 » Andújar Cedeño, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
• 2001 » Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1910)
• 2002 » Erling Persson, Swedish businessman, founded H&M (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Margaret Booth, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1898)
• 2004 » Eugene K. Bird, American colonel and author, US Commandant of Spandau Prison (b. 1926)
• 2005 » Bob Broeg, American soldier and journalist (b. 1918)
• 2005 » Raymond Hains, French photographer (b. 1926)

• 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 21 » Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
• April 19 » Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.
• July 10 » EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
• August 8 » Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
• August 12 » The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.
• August 21 » Tiger Woods, American professional golfer, wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year.

The temperature on October 28, 2000 was between 11.6 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.