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• James Patrick Braughton, Indiana († 2000)
• Kelly Stuijts († 2000)

• Antonia (Toos) Vriens (93), Bussum, Noord Holland, The Netherlands
• Dorothea Hedwig Frahn (97)
• Abraham Nederlof (89), pernis
• Bjarne Peeters (0), Bornem
• Antonia Vriens (93), Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Daniel Smid (85), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• Cornelia Roede (86), Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aletta Annigje Esveldt (85), Gouda
• Cornelia van Duijn (88), Katwijk aan Zee
• Annemarie Geerdink, Roden, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1988 » Carl Hagelin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1988 » Olga Govortsova, Belarusian tennis player
• 1989 » Heiko Schwarz, German footballer
• 1989 » Lianne La Havas, British singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
• 1989 » Trixie Mattel, American drag queen, actor, and country singer
• 1990 » Seth Curry, American basketball player
• 1992 » Nicola Docherty, Scottish footballer
• 1993 » Iván López, Spanish professional footballer
• 1994 » August Ames, Canadian pornographic actress († 2017)
• 1997 » Lil Yachty, American rapper and singer

• 1997 » Eric Gairy, Grenadian educator and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1922)
• 1997 » John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1999 » Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2000 » John Anthony Kaiser, American priest and missionary (b. 1932)
• 2001 » Kathleen Freeman, American actress (b. 1919)
• 2001 » Peter Maas, American journalist and author (b. 1929)
• 2002 » Hoyt Wilhelm, American baseball player and coach (b. 1922)
• 2003 » Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
• 2003 » Jack Dyer, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1913)
• 2003 » Jan Sedivka, Czech-Australian violinist and educator (b. 1917)

• 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 3 » Final daily edition of the Peanuts comic strip.
• May 3 » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
• May 17 » Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
• September 14 » Microsoft releases Windows ME.
• November 9 » Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.
• December 15 » The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

The temperature on August 23, 2000 was between 9.5 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (88%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.