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• Alfred Meyer (89), Aplington, Butler County, Iowa
• Carel Diedericus Schaasberg (87), Naaldwijk, Nederland
• Clara Hoffman (94), DeMotte-Indiana (USA)
• Albert, Jan de Jong (76), Hoogblokland
• Cornelis Hermanus Huijbens (76), 's Hertogenbosch
• Clarence van Maren (79)
• Catharina Meijer (71), Woerden
• David Sherren (91), Chiltern, Buckinghamshire, England
• Antje Slingerland (96), Linschoten, Nederland
• Anthony 'Tony' van Roekel (77), Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa, VS

• 1986 » Mathieu Razanakolona, Canadian skier
• 1988 » Rob Kwiet, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Nacer Chadli, Belgian footballer
• 1990 » Ima Bohush, Belarusian tennis player
• 1994 » Laremy Tunsil, American football player
• 1994 » Laura Pigossi, Brazilian tennis player
• 1995 » Kristaps Porziņģis, Latvian basketball player
• 1996 » Keston Hiura, American baseball player
• 1996 » Simone Manuel, American swimmer
• 1999 » Mark Lee, Korean-Canadian singer

• 1996 » Michel Debré, French lawyer and politician, 150th Prime Minister of France (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian general and politician, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)
• 1996 » Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1917)
• 1997 » Fela Kuti, Nigerian singer-songwriter and activist (b. 1938)
• 1997 » William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1914)
• 1998 » Shari Lewis, American television host and puppeteer (b. 1933)
• 1999 » Willie Morris, American writer (b. 1934)
• 2003 » Peter Safar, Austrian-American physician and academic (b. 1924)
• 2004 » Ferenc Berényi, Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1929)
• 2004 » François Craenhals, Belgian illustrator (b. 1926)

• 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 14 » A United Nations tribunal sentences five Roman Catholic Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
• May 25 » Liberation Day of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (with the exception of the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 18 years after the invasion of 1982.
• June 16 » The Secretary-General of the UN reports that Israel has complied with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425, 22years after its issuance, and completely withdrew from Lebanon. The Resolution does not encompass the Shebaa farms, which is claimed by Israel, Syria and Lebanon.
• October 7 » Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Hezbollah militants capture three Israeli Defense Force soldiers in a cross-border raid.
• November 1 » Chhattisgarh officially becomes the 26th state of India, formed from sixteen districts of eastern Madhya Pradesh.
• December 12 » The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.

The temperature on August 2, 2000 was between 13.4 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.