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• André van Waterschoot (88), Tilburg
• Divera Bot (84)
• Diane Hess (65), Reno, Washoe, Nevada, Verenigde Staten
• Anton J. Hoort (76)
• Cornelis Simon Keesman (80), Haarlem
• (92), Milaca, Mille Lacs, Minnesota, United States
• christiaan stam (83)
• Dale Hobert Davidson (79), Trenton,Grundy Co.,Missouri-Resthaven Memorial Gardens
• Calvin William Frank (70), Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa
• Anna Paulina Schrander (89), Ugchelen, Nederland

• 1989 » Ronald Huth, Paraguayan footballer
• 1989 » Simone Guerra, Italian footballer
• 1991 » Jacqueline Cako, American tennis player
• 1991 » Liam Cooper, Scottish footballer
• 1991 » Seriki Audu, Nigerian footballer († 2014)
• 1992 » Jessica Henwick, British actress
• 1994 » Heo Young-ji, South Korean singer
• 1994 » Kwon So-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress
• 1994 » Monika Povilaitytė, Lithuanian volleyball player
• 1997 » Dana Gaier, American actress

• 1995 » Fischer Black, American economist and academic (b. 1938)
• 1995 » Sterling Morrison, American guitarist and singer (b. 1942)
• 1996 » Christine Pascal, French actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1953)
• 1999 » Raymond Poïvet, French illustrator (b. 1910)
• 1999 » Reindert Brasser, Dutch discus thrower (b. 1912)
• 2001 » Govan Mbeki, ANC activist and father of President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki (b. 1910)
• 2002 » J. Lee Thompson, English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 2003 » Charles Bronson, American actor and soldier (b. 1921)
• 2003 » Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic (b. 1917)
• 2004 » Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (b. 1906)

• 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 4 » Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
• June 13 » President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
• July 10 » EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
• October 26 » A wave of protests forces Robert Guéï to step down as president after the Ivorian presidential election.

The temperature on August 30, 2000 was between 6.8 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.