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• Edouard Toussaint BOULET (86), Herstal Liège,, Belgique
• Cornelia Petronella Elisabeth Verhoeven (94), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Versluis (75)
• Antonius Christianus Raaijmakers (68), Berlicum
• Aagje BAL (94), Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)
• Antonius de Lepper (78)
• Anna Catharina Theodora Stappers (91)
• Aldo John Andreoni (85), Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Donald Raymond Przybylo (62)
• Berend Zeeman (72)

• 1990 » Arjo Atayde, Filipino actor
• 1991 » Tomomi Kasai, Japanese actress and singer
• 1992 » George Akpabio, Nigerian footballer
• 1992 » Matthew Allwood, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Pete Davidson, American comedian and actor
• 1994 » Brandon Larracuente, American actor
• 1994 » Yoshiki Yamamoto, Japanese football player
• 1995 » Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor and pianist
• 1999 » A.G.Rhithwik
• 2006 » Mason Ramsey, American singer-songwriter

• 1994 » Chet Powers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
• 1999 » Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1928)
• 2000 » Ahmet Kaya, Turkish-French singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
• 2000 » Robert Earl Davis, American hip-hop artist (b. 1971)
• 2001 » Tommy Flanagan, American pianist and composer (b. 1930)
• 2005 » Donald Watson, English activist, founded the Vegan Society (b. 1910)
• 2005 » Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 2005 » Ralph Edwards, American radio and television host and producer (b. 1913)
• 2006 » Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 2006 » Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist and political scientist (b. 1930)

• 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 4 » The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
• 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.
• May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
• October 31 » Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.
• December 19 » The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three.

The temperature on November 16, 2000 was between 5.1 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.