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• Floortje de Bondt, Den Helder († 2000)
• pieter van der mullen

• Anna Petronella van den Boogaard (82), Heeswijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• clara maenhout (92), Veurne
• Antonie Threels (88), Woerden, Nederland
• David John Walsh (79), Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Elisabeth Josephina van Laerhoven (90), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bauke Sjoerd van der Schuit (83), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Ludovicus Krijnen (66), Graft-De Rijp, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Charles Camille de RYCKERE (78)
• Clasina Amarintia de Vries (98), Driebergen
• Bjorn de Vet (18), Mierlo

• 1990 » Anna van der Breggen, Dutch cyclist
• 1990 » Henderson Álvarez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1990 » Jake Howells, English footballer
• 1993 » Matt Salisbury, English cricketer
• 1993 » Nathan Sykes, English singer-songwriter
• 1995 » Divock Origi, Belgian footballer
• 1996 » Ioana Ducu, Romanian tennis player
• 1996 » Mariah Bell, American figure skater
• 1997 » Donny van de Beek, Dutch footballer
• 1997 » Matthias Blübaum, German chess grandmaster

• 1995 » Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (b. 1908)
• 1996 » Bernard Edwards, American bass player and producer (b. 1952)
• 1996 » Brook Berringer, American football player (b. 1973)
• 1997 » Edward Barker, English cartoonist (b. 1950)
• 1998 » Terry Sanford, American lieutenant and politician, 65th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (b. 1914)
• 2002 » Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)
• 2003 » Edgar F. Codd, English-American soldier, pilot, and computer scientist (b. 1923)
• 2004 » Kamisese Mara, Fijian politician, 2nd President of Fiji (b. 1920)
• 2005 » Sam Mills, American football player and coach (b. 1959)

• 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 27 » A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
• July 2 » Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
• August 8 » Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
• November 1 » Chhattisgarh officially becomes the 26th state of India, formed from sixteen districts of eastern Madhya Pradesh.
• November 7 » Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case, electing George W. Bush the 43rd President of the United States.
• November 9 » Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.

The temperature on April 18, 2000 was between 6.1 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.