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• Rosenna Beekelaar, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Pien van Leur, Oss († 2000)

• Adella Josephine Flora (89)
• Annie van Heesch (57), Nijmegen
• Afien Grootoonk (72), Heerenveen, Nederland
• Cornelis Henricus (Cor) BEKS (68), Nuenen (NL/NB)
• Astrid Bakelants (66), Vorselaar
• Albertus Hendrikus Wilhelmus van Haren (67), Didam
• Age Antonius Fluitman (85), Zeist, Nederland
• Derk Nicolaas Ederveen (91), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• arnoldus theodorus (nol) haenraets (79), helden-grashoek
• Adriana van Halem (80), Wassenaar

• 1988 » Ismaïl Aissati, Moroccan footballer
• 1989 » Moussa Sissoko, French footballer
• 1989 » Wang Hao, Chinese race walker
• 1990 » Godfrey Oboabona, Nigerian footballer
• 1991 » José Eduardo de Araújo, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Diego Schwartzman, Argentinian tennis player
• 1993 » Cameron Monaghan, American actor and model
• 1996 » Caeleb Dressel, American swimmer
• 1997 » Greyson Chance, American musician
• 1999 » Karen Chen, American figure skater

• 1997 » Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician and Qawwali singer (b. 1948)
• 1998 » Dorothy West, American journalist and author (b. 1907)
• 1998 » Phil Leeds, American actor (b. 1916)
• 2002 » Abu Nidal, Palestinian terrorist leader (b. 1937)
• 2002 » Jeff Corey, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2002 » John Roseboro, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
• 2003 » Idi Amin, Ugandan field marshal and politician, 3rd President of Uganda (b. 1928)
• 2004 » Balanadarajah Iyer, Sri Lankan journalist and poet (b. 1957)
• 2004 » Carl Mydans, American photographer and journalist (b. 1907)
• 2004 » Ivan Hlinka, Czech ice hockey player and coach (b. 1950)

1. Thomas
2. Robin
3. Tom
4. Max
5. Tim
6. Niels
7. Justin
8. Jacob
9. Wouter
10. Rick
11. Lars
12. Jan
13. Daan
14. David
15. Ruben
16. Noah

1. Amber
2. Lisa
3. Julia
4. Maria
5. Emma
6. Anna
7. Laura
8. Sanne
9. Tessa
10. Romy
11. Iris
12. Charlotte
13. Fleur
14. Femke
15. Merel
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.
• 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.
• May 7 » Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
• July 2 » Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
• September 26 » The MSExpress Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
• November 15 » Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.

The temperature on August 16, 2000 was between 12.5 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (52%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.