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• Nicholas Mantel, Pietermaritzburg (Zuid-Afrika) († 2001)
• Johannes Jan (Jeremy) Wieringa

• Arnolda Johanna van Nunen (80), Eindhoven
• "Jean" Robert de Marin de Montmarin (89), Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France
• Albert Louis Maria Bogers (70), Veldhoven
• adriana jozina REEDIJK (91)
• Adriaan de Visser (86), Sluis
• Antonia Maria Josephina van Bavel (90), Made
• Albert Louis Maria Bogers (70), Veldhoven
• Anneke Senden (91), Geleen
• Alfons Meerpohl (90), Friesoythe, Cloppenburg, Niedersachsen, Germany
• Catherine McCovick (86), Noyes Memorial Hospital, Dansville, Livingston, NY

• 1989 » Dárvin Chávez, Mexican footballer
• 1989 » Justin Tucker, American football player
• 1989 » Will Buckley, English footballer
• 1990 » Dani King, English cyclist
• 1990 » Georgie Twigg, English field hockey player
• 1991 » Almaz Ayana, Ethiopian sprinter
• 1991 » Lewis Dunk, English footballer
• 1991 » Peni Terepo, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1992 » Conor Maynard, English singer-songwriter
• 1994 » Saúl Ñíguez, Spanish footballer

• 1994 » Willem Jacob Luyten, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (b. 1899)
• 1995 » Noel Jones, Indian-English diplomat, British ambassador to Kazakhstan (b. 1940)
• 1995 » Peter Grant, English actor and manager (b. 1935)
• 1996 » Abdus Salam, Pakistani-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
• 1996 » Bernard Rose, English organist and composer (b 1916)
• 1999 » Quentin Crisp, English actor, author, and illustrator (b. 1908)
• 2000 » Ernest Lluch, Spanish economist and politician (b. 1937)
• 2002 » Hadda Brooks, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1916)
• 2005 » Alfred Anderson, Scottish soldier (b. 1896)
• 2005 » Hugh Sidey, American journalist and academic (b. 1927)

• 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.
• January 31 » Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
• March 27 » A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
• October 26 » A wave of protests forces Robert Guéï to step down as president after the Ivorian presidential election.
• October 26 » The Sony PlayStation 2 is launched in North American markets with 27 launch titles.
• November 17 » Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
• 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 21, 2000 was between 3.9 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.