About the day » Friday July 21, 2000Calender converter

• Boris van Rhijn, Laren († 2000)
• coline TORFS, Baudour (Belgium) Hainaut († 2000)
• Tina Wools, Utrecht, Netherlands († 2000)
• Kay Leon Molenhuis, Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Femke Driessen, Heerlen (z)(Lb)

• Brian Wayne WANNER (19), Near Halbrite,,Saskatchewan,CANADA
• Edwin Bernard Lawrence (90), Covington, Kenton, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Duana Alvin Bruinsma (72), South Dakota
• Cornelis Leendert Nelisse (85), Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Dorothy Ann Roghair (60), Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa
• Anja Wiebrens (82), unbekannt
• Aaltje Ekkel (70), Kloosterhaar
• Dorothea Christina Kim (77), Zwolle
• Adriana Margaretha Maria Verkerk (80), Harmelen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Satonij (73), IJsselstein

• 1988 » KB, American rapper
• 1989 » Juno Temple, English actress
• 1989 » Marco Fabián, Mexican footballer
• 1990 » Chris Martin, English footballer
• 1990 » Erislandy Savón, Cuban amateur heavyweight boxer
• 1990 » Franck Elemba, Congolese athlete
• 1990 » Jason Roy, English cricketer
• 1991 » Sara Sampaio, Portuguese model
• 1992 » Rachael Flatt, American figure skater
• 1996 » Mikael Ingebrigtsen, Norwegian footballer

• 1997 » Olaf Kopvillem, Estonian-Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1926)
• 1998 » Alan Shepard, American admiral, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1923)
• 1998 » Robert Young, American actor and singer (b. 1907)
• 2000 » Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author (b. 1948)
• 2002 » Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (b. 1908)
• 2003 » John Davies, English-New Zealand runner and coach (b. 1938)
• 2004 » Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2004 » Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor (b. 1929)
• 2005 » Long John Baldry, English-Canadian singer and actor (b. 1941)
• 2005 » Lord Alfred Hayes, English-American wrestler and manager (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 31 » Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
• April 3 » United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
• May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
• August 23 » Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
• October 5 » Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.
• December 1 » Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.

The temperature on July 21, 2000 was between 11.2 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.