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• Lynn Tol († 2000)
• Meijs, Boxtel († 2000)
• Lotte Mirjam Krancher († 2000)
• Luna Robin Krancher († 2000)

• Emerentiana Wilhelmina van Cuijk (82), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arthur (Sandy) Thomas Richardson (78)
• Anna Kleinendorst (87), Piershil
• Dirkje Anna Taling (79), Blaricum, Nederland
• Cornelis Lambertus Maria de Brabander (65), Poeldijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Eugenius Ignatius Joseph Goedemans (73)
• Antonius Maria de Jager (60), Groningen Groningen Nederland
• Andries Mulder (81), Hengelo
• Aleida Elisabeth Roeper (93), Hilversum
• Cornelis Schaap (74), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1985 » Besart Berisha, Albanian footballer
• 1985 » Okinoumi Ayumi, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1985 » Simon Santoso, Indonesian badminton player
• 1988 » Tarjei Bø, Norwegian biathlete
• 1989 » Grit Šadeiko, Estonian heptathlete
• 1991 » Dale Copley, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Irakli Logua, Russian footballer
• 1992 » Karen Torrez, Bolivian swimmer
• 1993 » Nicole Melichar, American tennis player
• 1994 » Liam O'Brien, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1994 » John Britton, American physician (b. 1925)
• 1995 » Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1917)
• 1996 » Jason Thirsk, American singer and bass player (b. 1967)
• 1996 » Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1920)
• 1996 » Ric Nordman, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1919)
• 1998 » Jerome Robbins, American director, producer, and choreographer (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Edward Gierek, Polish soldier and politician (b. 1913)
• 2001 » Wau Holland, German computer scientist, co-founded Chaos Computer Club (b. 1951)
• 2003 » Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean soldier, founded the Revolutionary United Front (b. 1937)
• 2004 » Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress and singer (b. 1923)

• 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 14 » The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
• February 29 » Second Chechen War: Eighty-four Russian paratroopers are killed in a rebel attack on a guard post near Ulus Kert.
• March 27 » A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
• May 17 » Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
• June 5 » The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed.
• September 28 » Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

The temperature on July 29, 2000 was between 11.7 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 27.7 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.