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• Anna - Annie Hemme (81)
• Anna Maria Kuipers (83), Ootmarsum
• Donald Lee Moore Sr. (90), Brevard, Transylvania County, North Carolina
• ANNE-JEANNE ONLAND (57), SNEEK
• Eppo Leenders (49)
• Anthonie Jansen (74), Amsterdam
• Etje Wouda (88)
• Adrianus Cornelis (Adriaan) van Wijk (83), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelis Catharinus Damen (76), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Drika Maria Wilhelmina Hendrika Wilms (85), Venlo

• 1986 » Mathieu Gnanligo, Beninese sprinter
• 1988 » James Tamou, New Zealand-Australian rugby league player
• 1988 » Olly Lancashire, English footballer
• 1988 » Rickie Fowler, American golfer
• 1989 » Ben Ridge, Australian rugby league player
• 1989 » Hellen Onsando Obiri, Kenyan runner
• 1989 » Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter, record producer and actress
• 1991 » Aaron Telitz, American race car driver
• 1991 » Sénah Mango, Togolese footballer
• 1996 » Gleyber Torres, Venezuelan baseball player

• 1996 » Edward Blishen, English author and educator (b. 1920)
• 1997 » Don E. Fehrenbacher, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Lew Grade, Ukrainian-born British impresario and media proprietor (b. 1906)
• 1998 » Richard Thomas, Royal Naval Officer (b. 1922)
• 1998 » Wade Watts, civil rights activist (b. 1919)
• 2001 » Chuck Schuldiner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1967)
• 2001 » Michael Bradshaw, British-Canadian actor (b. 1933)
• 2002 » Zal Yanovsky, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
• 2003 » Māris Čaklais, Latvian poet and journalist (b. 1940)
• 2003 » William V. Roth, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1921)

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. David
15. Ruben
16. Noah

1. Amber
2. Lisa
3. Maria
4. Julia
5. Emma
6. Anna
7. Laura
8. Tessa
9. Sanne
10. Iris
11. Charlotte
12. Romy
13. Fleur
14. Merel
15. Femke
16. Anouk

• 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 14 » A United Nations tribunal sentences five Roman Catholic Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
• January 21 » Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutiérrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
• February 5 » Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
• July 25 » Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 people.
• October 12 » The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer is badly damaged by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
• December 1 » Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.

The temperature on December 13, 2000 was between 9.2 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 2.7 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 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.