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• Harm Johannes Bernardus van Engeland, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Harm Johannes Bernardus van Engeland, 's-Hertogenbosch

• Catherine Opalka (89)
• Albert Pinxter (80), Leiden
• Dina Jacoba de Weger (95), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• adrianus VELD
• Aaldert Okken (70), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus Henricus Turk (82), Noordwijk
• Arvada Todd (96), Laurel, Jones, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten
• Antonie Johannes de Groot (79), Soest
• Antonie Emma Hüls (95), Oldenzaal,, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antoon Hubert Justin Houbrechts (79), Hasselt, België

• 1990 » Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player
• 1991 » Danilo, Brazilian footballer
• 1991 » Derrick Favors, American basketball player
• 1991 » Evgeny Tishchenko, Russian boxer
• 1992 » Hokutōfuji Daiki, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1992 » Tobias Harris, American basketball player
• 1992 » Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter
• 1993 » Håvard Nielsen, Norwegian footballer
• 1993 » Harrison Rhodes, American racing driver
• 1998 » Noah Gragson, American racing driver

• 1992 » Hammer DeRoburt, Nauruan educator and politician, 1st President of Nauru (b. 1922)
• 1997 » Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, founded Versace (b. 1946)
• 1997 » Justinas Lagunavičius, Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1924)
• 1998 » S. Shanmuganathan, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1960)
• 2000 » Louis Quilico, Canadian opera singer and educator (b. 1925)
• 2001 » C. Balasingham, Sri Lankan lawyer and civil servant (b. 1917)
• 2003 » Elisabeth Welch, American actress and singer (b. 1904)
• 2003 » Roberto Bolaño, Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist (b. 1953)
• 2006 » Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist and academic (b. 1942)
• 2006 » Robert H. Brooks, American businessman, founder of Hooters and Naturally Fresh, Inc. (b. 1937)

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.
• February 6 » Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
• April 30 » Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
• June 13 » President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
• June 26 » The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
• September 30 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.
• October 17 » The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.

The temperature on July 15, 2000 was between 10.6 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.