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• Pytsje Dotinga († 2000)
• Pytsje Gerrits Dotinga, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 2000)

• Ann Caroline White Leith (79)
• Bertha Henna Aleida Wiegerina Roelofina Hartgers (58)
• Ariaantje Timmer (85)
• Augustina Spaink (70), Elgin, Chicago, Verenigde Staten
• Christianus Jan Kampinga (85), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Christianus Kampinga (85), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Callilee WARD (82), Florence Florence County South Carolina U.S.A
• Clarence Paul Sylla (82), Glenwood City, Trempealeau, Wisconsin
• Ada Mae Williamson (80), Flint, Genesee, Michigan, United States
• Archie Gerald Harrison (85), Eugene, Lane, Oregon

• 1990 » Asier Illarramendi, Spanish footballer
• 1990 » Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player
• 1991 » Miriam Bryant, Swedish-Finnish singer-songwriter
• 1991 » Tom English, Australian rugby player
• 1992 » Uki Satake, Japanese singer, actress, and radio host
• 1994 » Claire Emslie, Scottish footballer
• 1994 » Dylan Tombides, Australian footballer († 2014)
• 1994 » Pablo Dyego, Brazilian footballer
• 1996 » Matthew Hammelmann, Australian rules footballer
• 1998 » Tali Darsigny, Canadian weightlifter

• 1996 » Jack Churchill, British colonel (b. 1906)
• 1997 » Gershon Liebman, French rabbi (b. 1905)
• 1998 » Ray Nitschke, American football player and actor (b. 1936)
• 1999 » Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian journalist and author (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player and coach (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (b. 1924)
• 2001 » Edward Winter, American actor (b. 1937)
• 2003 » Adam Faith, English singer (b. 1940)
• 2003 » Karen Morley, American actress (b. 1909)
• 2004 » Muhammad Zaidan, Syrian terrorist, founded the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948)

1. Thomas
2. Tom
3. Robin
4. Max
5. Tim
6. Niels
7. Jacob
8. Justin
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. Sanne
9. Tessa
10. Iris
11. Charlotte
12. Romy
13. Fleur
14. Merel
15. Anouk
16. Anne

• 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.
• March 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
• March 21 » Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
• May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
• June 26 » The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
• October 2 » The Rijndael algorithm is chosen by NIST as the AES standard.
• October 7 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Hezbollah militants capture three Israeli Defense Force soldiers in a cross-border raid.

The temperature on March 8, 2000 was between 9.5 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 11.8 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.