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• Jay Jalink, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland († 2002)

• Alberta Hermina Oosterom (83), Wijk aan Zee
• Arthur Jack Jaussaud (91), Walla Walla, Walla Walla County, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana van Schuppen (85)
• Adrianus Anthonius Bontje (79), Ter Aar
• Albertje SNIJDER (90), Dedemsvaart (O)
• Barend van den Berg (76)
• Alie Klomp (81), Volendam
• Alie Klomp (81), Volendam
• Antonius Strik (80)
• Antonius Hendrikus Boerboom (71), Zevenaar

• 1986 » Ben Griffin, Australian footballer
• 1987 » Hatem Ben Arfa, French footballer
• 1987 » Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1988 » Larry Asante, American football player
• 1991 » Michele Rigione, Italian footballer
• 1994 » Chase Kalisz, American swimmer
• 1994 » Jordan Pickford, English footballer
• 1995 » Aboubakar Kamara, French footballer, forward
• 1995 » Jerome Binnom-Williams, English footballer
• 1996 » Liam Donnelly, Northern Irish footballer

• 1997 » Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 1999 » Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (b. 1918)
• 1999 » Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2000 » Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
• 2001 » Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 2004 » Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)
• 2005 » Debra Hill, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1950)
• 2005 » John Box, English production designer and art director (b. 1920)
• 2006 » Ali Farka Touré, Malian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
• 2006 » Gordon Parks, American photographer, director, and composer (b. 1912)

• 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 30 » Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.
• February 5 » Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
• June 13 » Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
• November 30 » NASA launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission.
• 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.
• 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 March 7, 2000 was between 7.5 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (17%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.