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• Ayden Maris Suárez, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Sophie Hillegona maria Kroon († 2000)
• Mats Koen Uit den Bulten, Wezep, GE Netherlands († 2006)
• Meike Hartmans

• Donald Aldrich Corbin (71)
• Christina Berendina Junick (92), Deurningen
• Antoon Rietberg (74), Lichtenvoorde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alberdina Habing (86), Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anje Kalverkamp (60), Zeist
• Adriana Johanna Oomens (83), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Heilig (84), Hensbroek, Niederlande
• Ada Beatrice Dishon (93), Kenton County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Alko Zwik (80), Muntendam, Nederland
• Cornelia Christina Frederika van der Weele (83), Haarlem

• 1990 » Montee Ball, American football player
• 1991 » Jacopo Sala, Italian footballer
• 1992 » Ilja Antonov, Estonian footballer
• 1992 » Natalie Sourisseau, Canadian field hockey player
• 1993 » Ross Barkley, English footballer
• 1994 » Grant Ward, English footballer
• 1994 » Ondrej Duda, Slovak footballer
• 1995 » Anthony Martial, French footballer
• 1995 » Danny Levi, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1995 » Kaetlyn Osmond, Canadian figure skater

• 1995 » Charles Evans, English mountaineer, surgeon, and educator (b. 1918)
• 1995 » Clair Cameron Patterson, American scientist (b. 1922)
• 1995 » Gwen Harwood, Australian poet and playwright (b. 1920)
• 1995 » L. B. Cole, American illustrator and publisher (b. 1918)
• 1997 » Eugen Cicero, Romanian-German jazz pianist (b. 1940)
• 1998 » Albert Gore, Sr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1907)
• 2001 » Franco Rasetti, Italian-American physicist and academic (b. 1901)
• 2002 » Ne Win, Burmese general and politician, 4th President of Burma (b. 1911)
• 2002 » Roone Arledge, American sportscaster and producer (b. 1931)
• 2005 » Edward L. Masry, American lawyer and politician (b. 1932)

• 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 5 » Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
• March 21 » Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
• August 23 » Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
• 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 7 » The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
• November 15 » Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.

The temperature on December 5, 2000 was between 6.4 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.