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• Lotte Marieke Reesink, Doetinchem
• Pepijn Petrus Naning Terpstra, 's-Gravenhage,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Pepijn Petrus Nanning Terpstra, 's-Gravenhage,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Stella Catherina Sabrina (Stella) STERK, Zennewijnen
• Luke Theodoor Bosland, Gouda ZH NL

• Anthony Jeronimus (97), Rotterdam
• An de Man (69), Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Johanna Schellekens (88), Goirle
• Cornelis Maria Zwaan (75)
• Anna Elisabeth Schrader (64), Amsterdam
• Carol Jean Stewart (67), Holland Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Anthonij Jeronimus (97), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Antonius de Beijer (70), Veldhoven
• Benjamin Alfred Hock (84), Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Abraham Spruit (83), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1990 » Brooks Koepka, American golfer
• 1991 » Samuel Seo, South Korean musician
• 1992 » Aaron Whitchurch, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Ivan Bukavshin, Russian chess player († 2016)
• 1996 » Alex Iwobi, Nigerian football player
• 1996 » Domantas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1996 » Mary Cain, American runner
• 1997 » Desiigner, American rapper
• 1997 » Dwayne Haskins, American football player
• 1997 » Ivana Jorović, Serbian tennis player

• 1997 » Narciso Yepes, Spanish guitarist and composer (b. 1927)
• 1997 » Sébastien Enjolras, French race car driver (b. 1976)
• 1998 » Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1999 » Godfrey Evans, English cricketer (b. 1920)
• 1999 » Joe Adcock, American baseball player and manager (b. 1927)
• 1999 » Steve Chiasson, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1967)
• 2000 » Júlia Báthory, Hungarian glass designer (b. 1901)
• 2000 » John Joseph O'Connor, American cardinal (b. 1920)
• 2002 » Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, English politician, First Secretary of State (b. 1910)
• 2002 » Yevgeny Svetlanov, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1928)

• 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 3 » Final daily edition of the Peanuts comic strip.
• February 4 » The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
• February 14 » The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
• 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.
• April 30 » Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
• November 13 » Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.

The temperature on May 3, 2000 was between 10.0 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.