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• Mitchell van het Schip, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2000)

• Adriana Moeiliker (95), Kapelle
• Adrianus van Waart (88), ........
• Barbara van der Velden (82)
• Annie Minke (73)
• Coy Amble Holt **** (88)
• Alida Duijs (87), Zaandam
• Bea van der Kolk (63), Alkmaar, Nederland
• Anna Geertruda van den Meijdenberg (73), Dongen
• Benjamin Byron Johnson (82), Beebe, White, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten
• Christaan Joseph Haverkamp (86), Emmeloord, Flevoland, Nederland

• 1991 » Eva Wacanno, Dutch tennis player
• 1991 » Fei Yu, Chinese footballer
• 1991 » Ida Njåtun, Norwegian speed skater
• 1991 » Tobias Eisenbauer, Austrian ice dancer
• 1992 » Víctor Mañón, Mexican footballer
• 1993 » Teresa Scanlan, Miss America 2011
• 1993 » Tinashe, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1994 » Charlie Heaton, British actor and musician
• 1995 » Leon Goretzka, German footballer
• 1995 » Sam McQueen, English footballer

• 1994 » Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1995 » James Merrill, American poet and playwright (b. 1926)
• 1998 » Falco, Austrian pop-rock musician (b. 1957)
• 1999 » Don Dunstan, Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Premier of South Australia (b. 1926)
• 1999 » Jimmy Roberts, American tenor (b. 1924)
• 2000 » Phil Walters, American race car driver (b. 1916)
• 2001 » Filemon Lagman, Filipino theoretician and activist (b. 1953)
• 2002 » Max Perutz, Austrian-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
• 2004 » Gerald Bouey, Canadian lieutenant and economist (b. 1920)
• 2005 » Karl Haas, German-American pianist, conductor, and radio host (b. 1913)

• 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.
• May 2 » President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
• June 7 » The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
• June 13 » Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
• June 22 » Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people.
• November 11 » Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
• November 30 » NASA launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission.

The temperature on February 6, 2000 was between 5.4 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.