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• Arthur Riley Macon (71), Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota, United States of America
• Adrianus Cornelis Zevenhoven (64), Brielle
• Cornelia Jacoba Fraanje (83), Goes
• Antonius Hubertus Elizabeth Rovers (90), Rossum, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia Maria Josephina Verstegen (87), 's-Hertogenbosch, NB Netherlands
• Alida Poulina Kleijn (83), Asperen,Lingewaal,Gelderland,Nederland
• Antonie Zwarts (65), Blaricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arthur Hopper (59), Newport News, Independent Cities, Virginia, United States
• Betty Louise Herndon Powell (73)
• * Maria Sibilia van der Loo (86), Linne

• 1989 » Cally-Jo, English fine artist and tattoo artist
• 1989 » Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014
• 1990 » Abby Mavers, English actress
• 1990 » Luhan, Chinese singer and actor
• 1992 » Kristian Álvarez, Mexican footballer
• 1992 » Marko Meerits, Estonian footballer
• 1995 » Damian McKenzie, New Zealand rugby union player
• 1995 » Jean Marie Dongou, Cameroonian footballer
• 1997 » Alexander "Sascha" Zverev, German tennis player
• 1998 » Zachary Claman DeMelo, Canadian racing driver

• 1995 » Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav communist, politician, theorist and author (b. 1911)
• 1996 » Trần Văn Trà, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1918)
• 1999 » Rick Rude, American wrestler (b. 1958)
• 1999 » Casualties of the Columbine High School massacre:
• 2001 » Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
• 2002 » Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
• 2003 » Bernard Katz, German-English biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2003 » Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
• 2004 » Lizzy Mercier Descloux, French musician, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, writer and painter (b. 1956)
• 2005 » Fumio Niwa, Japanese journalist and author (b. 1904)

• 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 14 » A United Nations tribunal sentences five Roman Catholic Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
• 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.
• August 11 » An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries.
• September 26 » The MSExpress Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
• 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.
• December 15 » The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

The temperature on April 20, 2000 was between 6.3 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (35%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.