2000

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Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. In the Chinese Calendar, it is the Year of the Dragon, and in the western astrological calendar, it is the year of Leo, the Lion.

Year 2000 was the target of Y2K concerns, fearing computers could not shift from 2-digit "99" to "2000"; however, many companies had already converted their software, even obtaining Y2K certification, and relatively few problems occurred.

Popular culture also holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the third millennium. In the Gregorian Calendar, however, this distinction falls to the year 2001, because the first century began with year AD 1 (there was no year zero), and the thousand years spanned to years 2-1001 (see more at: millennium).

The year 2000 was also marked as:

The International Year for a Culture of Peace.
The World Mathematical Year.

See also Wikipedia's almanac of events for this year.

Events of 2000

January

January 1 - Millennium celebrations take place throughout the world.
January 1 - Y2K passes without serious, widespread computer failures, despite fears to the contrary. Many computer programmers had long kept track of each year in shorthand as a two-digit offset from 1900. This modulo-100 assumption thereby treated 2000 instead as 1900, resulting in a 100-year error. Another glitch had the U.S. Naval Observatory web site indicating the date as 19100.
January 3-January 10 - Israel and Syria hold inconclusive peace talks.
January 4 - Alan Greenspan is nominated for a fourth term as U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman.
January 5-January 8 - The 2000 al-Qaeda Summit of several high-level al-Qaeda members (including 2 9/11 American Airlines hijackers) is held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
January 10 - America Online announces an agreement to be bought out by Time Warner for $162 billion. This is the largest-ever corporate merger.

January 11 - The armed wing of Islamic Salvation Front concludes its negotiations with the government for an amnesty and disbands in Algeria. (See Algerian Civil War#GIA destroyed, GSPC continues.)
January 11 - The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man.
January 14 - United Nations tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years, for the 1993 killing of over 100 Bosnian Muslims in a Bosnian village.
January 14 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98, a level never reached before (the peak of the Dot-com bubble).
January 16 - In Sacramento, California, a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the State Capitol building, killing the driver.
January 18 - The Tagish Lake meteorite impacted the Earth.
January 24 - God's Army, a Karen militia group led by twins Johnny and Luther Htoo, take 700 hostages at a Thai hospital near the Burmese border.
January 26 - Rap-metal band Rage Against the Machine plays in front of Wall Street, prompting an early closing of trading due to the crowds.
January 30 - The St. Louis Rams win the NFL Championship for the first time since 1951, defeating the Tennessee Titans 23-16 in Super Bowl XXXIV at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia.
January 30 - Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
January 31 - Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88.
January 31 - Dr. Harold Shipman is found guilty of murdering 15 patients between 1995 and 1998 and sentenced to life imprisonment. The trial judge recommends that Shipman, 54, should never be released from prison. Shipman's victims were all patients at his surgery in the North Cheshire township of Hyde, where he had worked for six years leading up to his arrest in September 1998.

February

February - Jiang Zemin's Three Represents
February 1 - In the United States presidential election Vice President Al Gore wins the New Hampshire Democratic primary. John McCain wins the Republican primary. Gary Bauer withdraws from the race February 4, followed by Steve Forbes, February 10.
February 4 - German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion, in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
February 6 - Tarja Halonen is elected the first female president of Finland.
February 7 - Stipe Mesic is elected president of Croatia.
February 11 - A blast from an improvised explosive device in front of a Barclay's Bank across from the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street wounds dozens but kills none
February 13 - The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles Schulz.
February 17 - Microsoft releases Windows 2000.
February 21 - UNESCO holds the inaugural celebration of International Mother Language Day

March

March 1 - The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
March 2 - Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
March 7 - George W. Bush and Al Gore emerge victorious in the Republican and Democratic caucuses and primaries of the United States presidential election
March 8 - Tokyo train disaster: A sideswipe collision of 2 Tokyo Metro trains kills 5 people.
March 9 - The FBI arrests art forgery suspect Ely Sakhai in New York City.
March 9 - Nupedia, predecessor to Wikipedia is created.
March 10 - The NASDAQ Composite Index reaches an all-time high of 5048.
March 18 - ROC presidential election, 2000: Chen Shui-bian is elected President of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Democratic Progressive Party ends Kuomintang rule for the first time.
March 19 - U.S. President Bill Clinton arrives in New Delhi for a state visit.
March 20 - Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), a former Black Panther, is captured after a gun battle in Atlanta, Georgia, that leaves a sheriff's deputy dead.
March 21 - Pope John Paul II begins the first official visit by a Roman Catholic pontiff to Israel.
March 21 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules the government lacks authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug, throwing out the Bill Clinton administration's main anti-smoking initiative.
March 26 - Presidential elections in Russia: Vladimir Putin is elected President.
March 26 - Seattle's Kingdome implodes to make way for Qwest Field.
March 26 - The 72nd Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, with American Beauty winning Best Picture.
March 27 - Phillips explosion of 2000 killed 1 and injured 71 in Pasadena, Texas.
March 30 - America's Cup 2000 is retained by Team New Zealand near Auckland. Prada Challenge 2000 lost 0-5 in a "best-of-9".
March 31 - Myra Hindley loses a High Court appeal against her government-imposed whole life prison sentence. It is her third appeal failure since December 1997, and her lawyers have vowed to take her freedom bid to the European Court of Human Rights.

April

April 1 - Japanese prime minister Keizo Obuchi suffers a stroke and falls into a coma.
April 3 - United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
April 5 - Yoshiro Mori replaces Keizo Obuchi as prime minister of Japan.
April 7 - Attack submarine ex-Trepang completes being recycled.
April 16 - Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, Sultan of Selangor, dies after a reign of 55 years. He was the longest reigning monarch in the world since the death of Prince Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein.
April 17 - Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin becomes Raja of Perlis.
April 22 - Brazil officially celebrates the 500th anniversary, not without protests, especially from native and black populations.
April 22 - In a predawn raid, federal agents seize six-year old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington, DC, ending one of the most publicized custody battles in US history.
April 25 - The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing Civil unions for same-sex couples.
April 28 - Richard Baumhammers begins a two hour racially motivated shooting spree in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, leaving five dead and one paralyzed.

May

May 3 - A rare conjunction of seven celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, planets Mercury-Jupiter) occurs on the New Moon.
May 3 - In San Antonio, Texas, computer pioneer Datapoint files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
May 11 - The billionth population of India is born (baby suri).
May 12 - The Tate Modern Gallery opens in London.
May 13 - Fireworks factory disaster in Enschede Netherlands, killing 23 people.
May 17 - Philippines. Glorietta Mall in Makati City was bomb and injuring 13 persons, mostly teenagers. According to local authorities, the homemade bomb was placed in front of a toilet beside a video arcade.
May 18 - Boo.com collapses in London after 6 months, due to lack of funds.
May 20 - Four Noes and One Without
May 25 - Israel withdraws IDF forces from southern Lebanon after 22 years.
May 28 - The volcano Mount Cameron erupts.

June

June 1 - Mount Etna erupts on the island of Sicily.
June 5 - 405 The Movie is released on the internet.
June 10 - The New Jersey Devils defeat the defending champion Dallas Stars 2-1 in double OT in Game 6 of the 2000 Stanley Cup Finals to win their second Stanley Cup Championship.
June 13 - South Korean President Kim Dae Jung visit North Korea, first as a president of opposite side, to participate in the first North-South presidential summit.
June 17 - A centennial earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter scale in Iceland. 17th of June is Iceland's national day.
June 19 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Indiana Pacers 116-111 in Game 6 of the 2000 NBA Finals.
June 21 - Section 28, a law preventing the promotion of homosexuality, is repealed by the Scottish Parliament.
June 26 - A preliminary draft of genomes, as part of the Human Genome Project, is finished.
June 28 - Elian Gonzalez returns to Cuba with his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, ending a protracted custody battle.
June 30 - At the Roskilde Festival near Copenhagen, Denmark, 9 die and 26 are injured on a set while the rock group Pearl Jam performed.

July

July 2 - France beats Italy 2-1 to win Euro 2000 with a golden goal.
July 2 - Vicente Fox is elected President of Mexico, as candidate of the rightist PAN (National Action Party), ending 71 years of PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) rule.
July 10 - In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline.
July 10 - Bashar al-Assad is confirmed as Syria's leader in a national referendum.
July 11-July 25 - Israel's prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO head Yasser Arafat meet at Camp David, but fail to reach an agreement.
July 18 - Alex Salmond resigns as the leader of the Scottish National Party.
July 18 - Sussex police launch a murder investigation after the body of a girl found near Pulborough is confirmed to be that of Sarah Payne, who was reported missing on July 1.
July 21-July 23 - G-8 Nations hold their 26th Annual Summit. Issues include AIDS, the 'digital divide', and halving world poverty by 2015.
July 22 - News of the World urges its readers to sign a petition for Sarah's Law - new legislation in response to the murder of Sarah Payne, which would give parents the right to know whether a convicted paedophile was living in their area.
July 25 - Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde aircraft, crashes into a hotel in Gonesse just after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 4 in the hotel.
July 30 - Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez is reelected with 59% of the vote.
July 31-August 3 - The Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania nominates George W. Bush for U.S. President and Dick Cheney for Vice President.

August

August 1 - The Santa Cruz Operation announced that it will sell its Server Software and Services Divisions, as well as UnixWare and OpenServer technologies, to Caldera Systems, Inc.
August 3 - Rioting erupts on the Paulsgrove estate in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, after more than 100 people besieged the home of a block of flats allegedly housing a convicted paedophile. This is the latest vigilante violence against suspected sex offenders since the beginning of the "naming and shaming" anti-paedophile campaign by the British media.
August 8 - Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
August 12 - The Russian submarine K-141 Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea, resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board.
August 14 - Czar Nicholas II and his family are canonized by the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
August 14-August 17 - The Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominates U.S. Vice President Al Gore for President and Senator Joe Lieberman for Vice President.
August 23 - John Anthony Kaiser a Roman Catholic priest was murdered in Morendat, Kenya.
August 27 - The Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire; three people are killed.

September

September 5 - Tuvalu joins the United Nations.
September 6 - In Paragould, Arkansas, Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart is stillborn to Scott Stewart and Lisa Bartlett. Breanna Lynn's stillbirth is notable for being the first stillbirth to be resolved by means of the Kleihauer-Betke test.
September 6 - The last wholly Swedish-owned arms manufacturer, Bofors, is sold to American arms manufacturer United Defense.
September 6-September 8 - World leaders attend the Millennium Summit at UN Headquarters.
September 7-September 14 - The UK fuel protests take place, with refineries blockaded, and supply to the country's network of petrol stations halted.
September 8 - Albania officially joins the World Trade Organization.
September 14 - Microsoft releases Windows Me.
September 15-October 1 - The 2000 Summer Olympics are held in Sydney, Australia.
September 16 - Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze is last seen alive; this day is taken as the commemoration date of his death.
September 16 - Peru's president Alberto Fujimori calls for new elections in which he will not run.
September 26 - The Greek Express Samina ferry sinks off the coast of the island of Paros; 80 out of a total of over 500 passengers perish in one of Greece's worst sea disasters.
September 26 - Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 15,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
September 28 - Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount, protected by a several-hundred-strong Israeli police force. Palestinian riots erupt, leading into a full-fledged armed uprising (called the Al-Aqsa Intifada by sympathizers and the Oslo War by opponents).
September 29 - The Long Kesh prison in Northern Ireland is closed.

October

October 1 - Closing ceremony of 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
October 5 - President Slobodan Milošević leaves office after widespread demonstrations throughout Serbia.
October 6 - The last Mini is produced in Longbridge.
October 11 - 250 million gallons of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky. Considered a greater environmental disaster than the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
October 12 - In Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole is badly damaged by two suicide bombers, who placed a small boat laden with explosives along-side the United States Navy destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
October 21 - Fifteen Arab leaders convene in Cairo, Egypt, for their first summit in 4 years; the Libyan delegation walks out, angry over signs the summit will stop short of calling for breaking ties with Israel.
October 22 - The Mainichi Shinbun newspaper exposes Japanese archeologist Shinichi Fujimura as a fraud; Japanese archaeologists had based their treatises on his findings.
October 23 - Madeleine Albright holds talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il.
October 26 - Pakistani authorities announce that their police have found an apparently ancient mummy of a Persian princess in the province of Balochistan. Iran, Pakistan and the Taliban all claim the mummy until Pakistan announces it is a forgery on April 17, 2001.
October 26 - The New York Yankees defeat the New York Mets in Game 5 of the 2000 World Series, 4-1, to win their 26th World Series title (and latest to date). This was the first Subway Series matchup between the two crosstown rivals. It was their 4th World Series win in the last 5 years under Manager Joe Torre.
October 31 - Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collides with construction equipment in the Chiang Kai Shek International Airport - 83 dead.

November

November - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq rejects new U.N. Security Council weapons inspections proposals.
November 2 - First resident crew enters International Space Station.
November 3 - Widespread flooding occurs throughout England and Wales after days of heavy rain.
November 7 - United States presidential election, 2000: Republican candidate Texas Governor George W. Bush defeats Democratic Vice President Al Gore in the closest election in history, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida.
November 7 - In London, a criminal gang raids the Millennium Dome to steal The Millennium Star diamond, but police surveillance catches them in the act.
November 7 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.
November 11 - Kaprun disaster, Austria: A cable car fire in an alpine tunnel kills 155 skiers and snowboarders.
November 14 - Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development, creating a stable Mozilla web browser upon which it is based.
November 15 - A new Indian state called Jharkhand is formed, carving out the South Chhota Nagpur area from Bihar in India.
November 16 - Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting U.S. President to visit Vietnam.
November 17 - A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
November 17 - Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
November 26 - The British Columbia Lions win the CFL Championship for the first time since 1994, defeating the Montreal Alouettes 28-26 in the 88th Grey Cup at McMahon Stadium in Calgary, Alberta.
November 27 - Jean Chrétien is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada, as the Liberal Party increases its majority in the House of Commons.
November 28 - Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz touches off the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.
November 30 - Seussical premieres on Broadway.

December

December 1 - Vicente Fox takes office as President of Mexico.
December 13 - Bush v. Gore: The U.S. Supreme Court stops the Florida presidential recount, effectively giving the state, and the Presidency, to George W. Bush.
December 13 - The Texas 7 escape from their prison unit in Kenedy, Texas, and start a crime spree.
December 24 - The Texas 7 rob a sports store in Irving, Texas; police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot dead.
December 28 - U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
December 30 - Rizal Day Bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines, within a span of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about 100.
December 31 - The Millennium Dome closes its doors one year to the day of its opening.

Undated

Unconverted computer systems were fixed for Y2K to handle the year "2000" (some computers considered the year as "19100" for 19-100).

World population

396,201,000
World population
	2000	1995		2005
World	6,070,581,000	5,674,380,000	align="right"
6,453,628,000	align="right"
Africa	795,671,000	707,462,000	align="right"
887,964,000	align="right"
Asia	3,679,737,000	3,430,052,000	align="right"
3,917,508,000	align="right"
Europe	727,986,000	727,405,000	align="right"
724,722,000	-3,264,000
Latin-America	520,229,000	481,099,000	align="right"
558,281,000	align="right"
Northern America	315,915,000	299,438,000	align="right"
332,156,000	align="right"
Oceania	31,043,000	28,924,000	align="right"
32,998,000	align="right"

Births

January 4 - Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, American actress
May 10 - Shyann McClure, American actress and model
August 5 - Maya Bond, Japanese-born American singer and musician
July 27 - Kali Rodriguez, American actress
September 6 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, notable American stillborn baby girl (d. 2000)
September 9 - Victoria Federica de Marichalar y de Borbón, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
September 26 - Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II
November 20 - Connie Talbot, English singer
November 30 - Destiny Norton, American crime victim (d. 2006)
December 6 - Pablo Nicolás Urdangarín y de Borbón, grandson of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.

Deaths

January-June

January 2 - Patrick O'Brian, English writer (b. 1914)
January 7 - Makhmud Esambayev, Chechen dancer (b. 1924)
January 15 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)
January 15 - Željko Ražnatović, Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
January 19 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
January 19 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (b. 1913)
January 26 - Don Ralke, American music arranger (b. 1920)
February 4 - Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
February 5 - Ward Cornell, Canadian radio/TV broadcaster & educator (b. 1924)
February 7 - Big Pun, American rapper (b. 1971)
February 8 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
February 9 - Beau Jack, American boxer (b. 1921)
February 10 - Jim Varney, American actor noted for his character, Ernest P. Worrell. (b. 1949)
February 11 - Roger Vadim, French film director (b. 1928)
February 12 - Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, American musician (b. 1929)
February 12 - Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)
February 12 - Charles M. Schulz, American comic strip artist (Peanuts) (b. 1922)
February 19 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist (b. 1928)
February 23 - Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)
February 23 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957)
February 29 - Dennis Danell, American musician (Social Distortion) (b. 1961)
March 3 - Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (b. 1904)
March 28 - Anthony Powell, British author (b. 1905)
April 3 - Terence McKenna, Writer, Philosopher, Ethnobotanist and Shaman (b. 1946)
April 4 - Derek Allhusen, British equestrian (b. 1914)
April 5 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)
April 6 - Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia (b. 1903)
April 10 - Larry Linville, American actor
April 11 - Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
April 16 - Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, King of Malaysia (b. 1920)
April 25 - David Merrick, American stage producer (b. 1911)
April 29 - Phạm Văn Ðồng, Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1906)
May 11 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907)
May 12 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
May 14 - Keizo Obuchi, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
May 17 - Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1909)
May 19 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
May 20 - Edward Bernds, American director (b. 1905)
May 20 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)
May 20 - Malik Sealy, Minnesota Timberwolves basketball player (b. 1970)
May 21 - Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist (b. 1901)
May 21 - Sir John Gielgud, English actor (b. 1904)
May 21 - Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur and founder of Herbalife (b. 1956)
May 27 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)
May 27 - Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912)
May 31 - John Coolidge, son of American President Calvin Coolidge (b. 1906)
June 10 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930)
June 14 - Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (b. 1906)
June 16 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
June 17 - Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
June 18 - Nancy Marchand, American actress who starred in The Sopranos (b. 1928)
June 21 - Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
June 24 - David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917)

July-December

July 1 - Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
July 2 - Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
July 7 - James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (b. 1921)
July 7 - Kenny Irwin, NASCAR driver (b. 1969)
July 8 - FM-2030, Transhumanist philosopher (b. 1930)
July 10 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909)
July 10 - Denis O'Conor Don, O'Conor Don
July 10 - Justin Pierce, British skateboarder and actor (b. 1975)
July 11 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
July 14 - Meredith MacRae, American actress (b. 1944)
July 27 - Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (b. 1929)
July 28 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (b. 1918)
July 29 - René Favaloro, Argentinian cardiologist who created the technique for coronary bypass surgery (b. 1923)
August 5 - Sir Alec Guinness, English actor and writer (b. 1914)
August 5 - Otto Buchsbaum, writer and ecological activist (b. 1920)
August 6 - Sir Robin Day, British political broadcaster (b. 1923)
August 9 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
August 9 - Bob Lido, American musician (b. 1914)
August 12 - Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
August 12 - Dave Edwards, American musician (b. 1941)
August 13 - Nazia Hassan First South Asian Pop Singer. (b.1965)
August 19 - Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo activist and leader (b. 1946)
August 21 - Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician (b. 1930)
August 25 - Carl Barks, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
September 2 - Elvera Sanchez, American dancer (b. 1905)
September 6 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, notable American stillborn baby girl (b. 2000)
September 16 - Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
September 17 - Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)
September 17 - Paula Yates, British television presenter and journalist (b. 1960)
September 19 - Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b 1917)
September 20 - Gherman Titov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
September 23 - Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (b. 1947)
September 25 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
September 26 - Carl Sigman, American songwriter (b. 1909)
September 27 - Sammy Luftspring, Canadian boxer (b. 1916)
September 28 - Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
October 3 - Benjamin Orr, the Cars bassist and singer (b. 1947)
October 4 - Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)
October 9 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
October 11 - Donald Dewar, Scottish politician (b. 1937)
October 13 - Tony Roper, NASCAR driver (b. 1964)
October 15 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
October 21 - Reginald Kray, leading figure in organised crime in London, UK (b. 1933)
October 22 - Rodney Anoa'i, American wrestler known as Yokozuna (b. 1966)
October 27 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
October 30 - Steve Allen, American comedian, composer, talk show host, and author (b. 1921)
November 6 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
November 7 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
November 7 - Ingrid of Sweden, Queen consort of Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1910)
November 11 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
November 22 - Sir Cyril Astley Clarke, British physician, geneticist and entomologist, former President of the Royal College of Physicians (b. 1907)
November 27 - Damilola Taylor, murder victim (b. 1989)
November 28 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)
December 6 - Werner Klemperer, German actor (b. 1920)
December 12 - Ven. Gangodawila Soma Thero, Sri Lankan Buddhist Monk (b. 1948)
December 18 - Kirsty MacColl, British singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
December 19 - Roebuck "Pops" Staples, patriarch of The Staple Singers (b. 1914)
December 23 - Victor Borge, Danish-born comedian and pianist (b. 1909)
December 23 - Noor Jehan, Pakistani actress and singer (b. 1926)
December 24 - Nick Massi, bass singer and bass guitarist for The Four Seasons.(b. 1935)
December 31 - Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, Israeli settler leader (b. 1966)

Nobel prizes

Templeton Prize

Freeman Dyson

Fictional

The following are references to year 2000 in fiction:

Film:

* Fun with Dick and Jane (2005) is set in 2000.

* Death Race 2000 is set in a United States where running down pedestrians with automobiles is the national sport.

* The last remaining forests of earth are placed in glass domes aboard eight "space freighters" and sent into deep space for safekeeping in Silent Running.

Computer and video games:

* Perfect Dark (2000): Joanna Dark is born on March 18.

* The House of the Dead 2 (1998) is set in 2000.

Radio:

* Not From Space (2003) is set in 2000.

Television:

* Late Night with Conan O'Brien: The recurring sketch "In the Year 2000" predicts events of the future, "all the way to the year 2000." The sketch originated before 2000, but still appears on the show as of 2007.

* Neon Genesis Evangelion: The cataclysmic event Second Impact occurs, destroying over half the world's population on September 13.

Notes

External links

2000 Coin Pictures

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