2000
2000
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Gregorian calendar | 2000 MM |
| Ab urbe condita | 2753 |
| Armenian calendar | 1449 ԹՎ ՌՆԽԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6750 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 156–157 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1921–1922 |
| Bengali calendar | 1407 |
| Berber calendar | 2950 |
| British Regnal year | 48 Eliz. 2 – 49 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2544 |
| Burmese calendar | 1362 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7508–7509 |
| Chinese calendar | 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4696 or 4636 — to — 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4697 or 4637 |
| Coptic calendar | 1716–1717 |
| Discordian calendar | 3166 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1992–1993 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5760–5761 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2056–2057 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1921–1922 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5100–5101 |
| Holocene calendar | 12000 |
| Igbo calendar | 1000–1001 |
| Iranian calendar | 1378–1379 |
| Islamic calendar | 1420–1421 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 12 (平成１２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1932–1933 |
| Juche calendar | 89 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4333 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 89 民國89年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 532 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2543 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 2126 or 1745 or 973 — to — 阳金龙年 (male Iron-Dragon) 2127 or 1746 or 974 |
| Unix time | 946684800 – 978307199 |
2000 (MM) was a century leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2000th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 1000th and last year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 2000s decade.
2000 was designated as:
International Year for the Culture of Peace[1]
World Mathematical Year[2]
Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium due to a tendency of grouping the years according to decimal values, as if year zero were counted. According to the Gregorian calendar, these distinctions fall to the year 2001, because the 1st century was retroactively said to start with the year AD 1. Since the Gregorian calendar does not have year zero, its first millennium spanned from years 1 to 1000 inclusively and its second millennium from years 1001 to 2000. (See more at Century and Millennium.)
The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as "Y2K" (the "Y" stands for "year", and the "K" stands for "kilo" which means "thousand").[3][4] The year 2000 was the subject of Y2K concerns, which were fears that computers would not shift from 1999 to 2000 correctly. However, by the end of 1999, many companies had already converted to new, or upgraded, existing software. Some even obtained Y2K certification. As a result of massive effort, relatively few problems occurred.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: |
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| Decades: |
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| Years: |
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| Gregorian calendar | 2000 MM |
| Ab urbe condita | 2753 |
| Armenian calendar | 1449 ԹՎ ՌՆԽԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6750 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 156–157 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1921–1922 |
| Bengali calendar | 1407 |
| Berber calendar | 2950 |
| British Regnal year | 48 Eliz. 2 – 49 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2544 |
| Burmese calendar | 1362 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7508–7509 |
| Chinese calendar | 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4696 or 4636 — to — 庚辰年 (Metal Dragon) 4697 or 4637 |
| Coptic calendar | 1716–1717 |
| Discordian calendar | 3166 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1992–1993 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5760–5761 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2056–2057 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1921–1922 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5100–5101 |
| Holocene calendar | 12000 |
| Igbo calendar | 1000–1001 |
| Iranian calendar | 1378–1379 |
| Islamic calendar | 1420–1421 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 12 (平成１２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1932–1933 |
| Juche calendar | 89 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4333 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 89 民國89年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 532 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2543 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 2126 or 1745 or 973 — to — 阳金龙年 (male Iron-Dragon) 2127 or 1746 or 974 |
| Unix time | 946684800 – 978307199 |
Events
January
January 2 – Massacre of twenty Copts by Muslim villagers in Kosheh, Egypt.
January 6 – The last natural Pyrenean ibex is found dead, apparently killed by a falling tree.
January 10 – America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the largest-ever corporate merger).
January 14 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98 (at the peak of the Dot-com bubble).[5] A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
January 18 – The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
January 30 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the coast of Ivory Coast into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
January 31 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88. Dr. Harold Shipman is found guilty of murdering 15 patients between 1995 and 1998 at Hyde, Greater Manchester, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
February
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 9 – Torrential rains in Africa lead to the worst flooding in Mozambique in 50 years, which lasts until March and kills 800 people.
February 13 – The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz.
February 21 – UNESCO holds the inaugural celebration of International Mother Language Day.
February 29 – A rare century leap year date occurs. Usually, century years are common years due to not being exactly divisible by 400. 2000 is the first such year to have a February 29 since the year 1600, making it only the second such occasion since the Gregorian Calendar was introduced in the late 16th century. The next such leap year will occur in 2400.
March
March 4 – The PlayStation 2 was released in Japan, followed by other releases in western markets in fall 2000. [6][7][8][9]
March 8 – Tokyo train disaster: A sideswipe collision of two Tokyo Metro trains kills five people.
March 10 – The NASDAQ Composite Index reaches an all-time high of 5,048.[10] Two weeks later, the NASDAQ-100, S&P 500, and Wilshire 5000 reach their peaks prior to the Dot-com bubble, ending a bull market run that lasted over 17 years.
March 12 Pope John Paul II apologizes for the wrongdoings by members of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the ages. A Zenit-3SL launch fails due to a software bug.[11]
March 13 – The United States dollar becomes the official currency of Ecuador, replacing the Ecuadorian sucre.
April
April 3 – United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
April 22 – In a predawn raid, federal agents seize 6-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington, D.C., ending one of the most publicized custody battles in U.S. history.
April 30 – Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
May
May 1 – A new class of composite material is fabricated, which has a combination of physical properties never before seen in a natural or man-made material.[12][13]
May 3 – In San Antonio, Texas, computer pioneer Datapoint files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
May 4 – The 7.6 Mw Central Sulawesi earthquake affects Banggai, Indonesia, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), leaving 46 dead and 264 injured.
May 5 After originating in the Philippines, the ILOVEYOU computer virus spreads quickly throughout the world. A rare conjunction of seven celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, planets Mercury–Saturn) occurs during the new moon.[14]
May 11 – The billionth living person in India is born.[15][16]
May 13 A fireworks factory disaster in Enschede, Netherlands, kills 23. Millennium Force opens at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster.
May 24 – Real Madrid C.F. defeats Valencia CF 3–0 in the UEFA Champions League Final at Stade de France to win their second title between 1998 and 2002, and their eighth overall.
June
June 4 – The 7.9 Mw Enggano earthquake shakes southwestern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong), killing 103 people and injuring 2,174–2,585.
June 5 – 405 The Movie, the first short film widely distributed on the Internet, is released.
June 10 – July 2 – Belgium and the Netherlands jointly host the UEFA Euro 2000 football tournament, which is won by France.
June 17 – A centennial earthquake (6.5 on the Richter scale) hits Iceland on its national day.
June 26 – A preliminary draft of genomes, as part of the Human Genome Project, is finished. It is announced at the White House by President Clinton.[17]
June 28 – Elián González returns to Cuba with his father, Juan Miguel González, ending a protracted custody battle.
June 30 – At the Roskilde Festival near Copenhagen, Denmark, nine die and 26 are injured on a set while the rock group Pearl Jam performs.
July
July 1 – The Øresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden is officially opened for traffic.
July 2 – France defeats Italy 2–1 after extra time in the final of the European Championship, becoming the first team to win the World Cup and European Championship consecutively.
July 7 – The draft assembly of Human Genome Project announced at the White House by President Bill Clinton, Francis Collins, and Craig Venter.
July 10 – In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline.
July 14 – A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
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.
August
August 3 – Rioting erupts on the Paulsgrove estate in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, after more than 100 people besiege 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-pedophile campaign by the tabloid newspaper News of the World.
August 7 – DeviantART is launched.
August 8 – The Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
August 12 – The Russian submarine Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea during one of the largest Russian naval exercises since the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board.
August 14 Tsar Nicholas II and his family are canonized by the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church. Dora the Explorer, one of Nickelodeon's most popular shows, debuts.
August 23 – John Anthony Kaiser, a Roman Catholic priest, is murdered in Morendat, Kenya.
August 24 – The Nintendo GameCube is revealed.
September
September 6 – The last wholly Swedish-owned arms manufacturer, Bofors, is sold to American arms manufacturer United Defense.
September 6–8 – World leaders attend the Millennium Summit at U.N. Headquarters.
September 7–14 – Fuel protests take place in the United Kingdom, with refineries blockaded, and supply to the country's network of petrol stations halted.
September 10 – Operation Barras: A British military operation to free five soldiers from the Royal Irish Regiment that were held captive for over two weeks during the Sierra Leone Civil War, all of which were rescued.
September 13 – Steve Jobs introduces the public beta of Mac OS X for US$29.95.[18]
September 15 – October 1 – The 2000 Summer Olympics, held in Sydney, Australia, is the last Olympic Games of the 20th century.
September 16 – Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze is last seen alive; this day is taken as the commemoration date of his death.
September 26 – The Greek ferry Express Samina 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 29 – The HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland is closed.
October
October 3 – Approximate start of Autumn 2000 Western Europe floods (particularly affecting England) precipitated by days of heavy rain.
October 5 – Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Yugoslavia's president Slobodan Milošević.
October 6 – The last Mini is produced in Longbridge.
October 11 – 250 million US gallons (950,000 m3) of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky (considered a greater environmental disaster than the Exxon Valdez oil spill).
October 12 – In Aden, Yemen, USS Cole is badly damaged by two Al-Qaeda suicide bombers, who place a small boat laden with explosives alongside the United States Navy destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
October 22 – The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper exposes Japanese archeologist Shinichi Fujimura as a fraud; Japanese archaeologists had based their treatises on his findings.
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 modern-day fake on April 17, 2001. The New York Yankees defeat the New York Mets 4-2 in the fifth game of the World Series to win the first "Subway Series" since 1956 by 4 games to 1. The series win was the Yankees third in a row and 26th overall.
October 30 – This is the final date during which there is no human presence in space; on October 31, Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been continuously crewed since.
October 31 – Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collides with construction equipment in the Chiang Kai Shek International Airport, resulting in 83 deaths.
November
November 2 – The first resident crew enters the International Space Station.
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 11 – Kaprun disaster, Austria: A funicular fire in an Alpine tunnel kills 155 skiers and snowboarders.
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.
December
December 7 – Kadisoka temple is discovered in Sleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
December 15 – The third and final reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down and the station is shut down completely.
December 25 – The Luoyang Christmas fire at a shopping center in China kills 309 people.
World population
| World population[19] | |||||||
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| 2000 | 1995 | 2005 | |||||
| World | 6,070,581,000 | 5,674,380,000 | +396,201,000 | +6.98% | 6,453,628,000 | +383,047,000 | +6.31% |
| Africa | 795,671,000 | 707,462,000 | +88,209,000 | +12.47% | 887,964,000 | +92,293,000 | +11.60% |
| Asia | 3,679,737,000 | 3,430,052,000 | +249,685,000 | +7.28% | 3,917,508,000 | +237,771,000 | +6.46% |
| Europe | 727,986,000 | 727,405,000 | +581,000 | +0.08% | 724,722,000 | -3,264,000 | -0.45% |
| Latin America | 520,229,000 | 481,099,000 | +39,130,000 | +8.13% | 558,281,000 | +38,052,000 | +7.31% |
| Northern America | 315,915,000 | 299,438,000 | +16,477,000 | +5.50% | 332,156,000 | +16,241,000 | +5.14% |
| Oceania | 31,043,000 | 28,924,000 | +2,119,000 | +7.33% | 32,998,000 | +1,955,000 | +6.30% |
Births
January
January 1 – Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya, Russian-Australian pair skater
January 7 – Marcus Scribner, American actor
January 8 – Noah Cyrus, American actress and singer
January 11 Shareef O'Neal, American basketball player Marrit Steenbergen, Dutch swimmer
January 14 – Jonathan David, Candian footballer
January 16 – Brenner, Brazilian footballer
January 19 – Choi Da-bin, South Korean figure skater
January 26 – Abel Ruiz, Spanish footballer
January 27 – Morgan Gibbs-White, English footballer
February
February 1 – Paris Smith, American actress and singer
February 5 – Jordan Nagai, American actor
February 10 – Yara Shahidi, American actress
February 16 – Amine Gouiri, French footballer
February 20 Kristóf Milák, Hungarian swimmer Josh Sargent, American footballer
February 21 Cho I-hsuan, Taiwanese professional tennis player Yuto Miyazawa, Japanese singer
February 22 – Timothy Weah, American footballer
February 25 – Tucker Albrizzi, American actor
February 28 – Moise Kean, Italian footballer
March
March 1 – Ava Allan, American actress
March 2 Nahida Akter, Bangladeshi cricketer Julia Kedhammar, Swedish singer Bianca Umali, Filipino actress and dancer
March 5 – Jack Aitchison, Scottish footballer
March 6 – Jacob Bertrand, American actor
March 10 – Norah Flatley, American artistic gymnast
March 11 – Rahaf Mohammed, Saudi Arabian activist
March 15 – Kristian Kostov, Russian/Bulgarian singer-songwriter
March 21 – Jace Norman, American actor
March 25 Camden Pulkinen, American figure skater Christian Traeumer, American actor Jadon Sancho, English footballer
March 27 – Sophie Nélisse, Canadian actress
March 28 – Aleyna Tilki, Turkish singer
March 30 – Regan Mizrahi, American child actor
March 31 – Anu Anand, Indian actress
April
April 1 – Barbora Seemanová, Czech swimmer
April 6 – Shaheen Afridi, Pakistani cricketer
April 7 – Ivan Ivanov, Bulgarian singer and songwriter
April 9 – Jackie Evancho, American soprano
April 11 Morgan Lily, American actress Alexei Krasnozhon, Russian-American figure skater
April 13 – Rasmus Dahlin, Swedish ice hockey player
April 23 – Chloe Kim, American snowboarder
April 28 – Ellie Carpenter, Australian footballer
May
May 7 – Maxwell Perry Cotton, American actor
May 15 Jacob Bragg, Australian runner Dayana Yastremska, Ukrainian tennis player
May 18 Addison Holley, Canadian actress Ryan Sessegnon, English footballer
May 23 – Evan Bird, Canadian actor
May 24 – Anja Crevar, Serbian swimmer
May 28 – Taylor Ruck, Canadian swimmer
May 30 – Jared S. Gilmore, American actor
June
June 1 – Willow Shields, American actress and dancer
June 2 – Lilimar Hernandez, Venezuelan actress
June 5 – Eliias, Swedish singer
June 9 – Laurie Hernandez, American artistic gymnast
June 13 – Penny Oleksiak, Canadian swimmer
June 16 – Bianca Andreescu, Canadian tennis player
June 19 – Gunay Mammadzada, Azerbaijani chess player
June 20 – Matthew Boling, American sprinter
June 23 Kim Hyun-soo, South Korean actress Caitlin Blackwood, English actress
June 25 – Mason Cook, American actor
June 29 – Kia Pegg, English actress
July
July 1 – Lalu Muhammad Zohri, Indonesian sprinter
July 4 – Rikako Ikee, Japanese swimmer
July 6 Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Finnish ice hockey player Zion Williamson, American basketball player
July 7 – Egy Maulana Vikri, Indonesian footballer
July 12 – Vinícius Júnior, Brazilian footballer
July 15 – Paulinho, Brazilian footballer
July 16 – Jonathan Morgan Heit, American actor
July 18 – Angelina Melnikova, Russian artistic gymnast
July 24 – Marko Čalasan, Macedonian computer systems prodigy
July 25 Meg Donnelly, American actress Ellie Soutter, British snowboarder (d. 2018)
July 28 Kaitlin De Guzman, Filipino artistic gymnast Emile Smith Rowe, English footballer
July 31 – Kim Sae-ron, South Korean actress
August
August 2 – Sandeep Lamichhane, Nepalese cricketer
August 3 – Landry Bender, American actress
August 8 – Félix Auger-Aliassime, Canadian tennis player
August 9 – Kim Hyang-gi, South Korean actress
August 11 – James Cartmell, British actor
August 17 – Lil Pump, American rapper and songwriter
August 20 – Fátima Ptacek, American actress
August 21 – Kate Valdez, Filipino model and actress
August 24 – Griffin Gluck, American actor
August 25 – Vincenzo Cantiello, Italian singer
August 26 – Noah Ryan Scott, Canadian actor
August 27 – Tatsuomi Hamada, Japanese actor and model
August 29 – Julia Grosso, Canadian soccer player
September
September 1 – Jacob Ewaniuk, Canadian teen actor
September 5 – Ceren Akkaya, Turkish footballer
September 26 – Salma bint Abdullah, Jordanian princess
September 28 Frankie Jonas, American actor Ahn Do-gyu, South Korean actor
October
October 6 – Isobelle Molloy, British actress
October 10 – Aedin Mincks, American actor
October 11 – Hayden Byerly, American actor
October 16 – David Rawle, Irish actor
October 25 Vincent Zhou, American figure skater Mizuki Itagaki, Japanese actor, model, and singer
October 26 – Ellery Sprayberry, American actress
October 31 – Willow Smith, American actress and singer
November
November 2 – Alphonso Davies, Canadian football player
November 7 – Callum Hudson-Odoi, English footballer
November 8 Jade Pettyjohn, American actress Anastasia Skoptsova, Russian ice dancer Jasmine Thompson, English singer and songwriter Roy Wang, Chinese singer
November 10 – Mackenzie Foy, American model and actress
November 20 – Connie Talbot, British singer
November 21 – Megan Roberts, Canadian artistic gymnast
November 22 – Auliʻi Cravalho, American actress
November 28 – Jackson Yi, Chinese singer
December
December 12 – Lucas Jade Zumann, American actor[20]
December 29 – Eliot Vassamillet, Belgian singer
Deaths
January
January 2 Nat Adderley, American jazz musician (b. 1931) Patrick O'Brian, British writer (b. 1914) Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, mother of King Juan Carlos I (b. 1910)
January 3 – Bernhard Wicki, Austrian actor and director (b. 1919)
January 4 Diether Krebs, German actor, cabaret artist and comedian. (b. 1947) Spyros Markezinis, Greek politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1909)
January 7 Gary Albright, American professional wrestler (b. 1963) Makhmud Esambayev, Soviet and Russian actor and dancer (b. 1924)
January 8 – Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian and show jumper (b. 1918)
January 10 – Sam Jaffe, American film producer (b. 1901)
January 11 Dan Kemp, American actor (b. 1927) Bob Lemon, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
January 12 – Bobby Phills, American professional basketball player (b. 1969)
January 13 – Antti Hyvärinen, Finnish Olympic ski jumper (b. 1932)
January 15 – Željko Ražnatović, Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (b. 1952)
January 18 – Frances Drake, American actress (b. 1912)
January 19 Bettino Craxi, Italian politician, 45th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934) Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (b. 1914) Alan North, American actor (b. 1920)
January 20 – Izabella Yurieva, Russian singer (b. 1899)
January 21 – Saeb Salam, Lebanese politician, 20th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1905)
January 24 – Rex Nelon, American Southern gospel singer (b. 1932)
January 26 Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915) A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-American science fiction author (b. 1912)
February
February 5 Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (b. 1901) Ward Cornell, Canadian radio/TV broadcaster & educator (b. 1924)
February 7 Big Pun, American rapper (b. 1971) Doug Henning, Canadian magician (b. 1947) Shiho Niiyama, Japanese voice actress (b. 1970)
February 8 Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918) Bob Collins, American broadcaster (b. 1942) Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Romanian lawyer and politician, 49th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1902) Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
February 9 Beau Jack, American boxer (b. 1921) Buck Young, American actor (b. 1920)
February 10 – Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
February 11 Jacqueline Auriol, French aviator (b. 1917) Roger Vadim, French film director and producer (b. 1928)
February 12 Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924) Charles M. Schulz, American comic strip artist (b. 1922) Oliver, American pop singer (b. 1945) Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American rock singer and performer (b. 1929)
February 13 – Anders Aalborg, Canadian politician (b. 1914)
February 19 Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (b. 1928) Djidingar Dono Ngardoum, 2nd Prime Minister of Chad (b. 1928)
February 23 Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957) Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)
March
March 2 – Sandra Schmirler, Canadian Olympic curler (b. 1963)
March 3 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (b. 1904)
March 5 Lolo Ferrari, French actress and dancer (b. 1963) Roma Mitchell, Australia lawyer and Governor of South Australia (b. 1913)
March 6 John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928) Abraham Waligo, Ugandan politician, 4th Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1928)
March 7 Charles Gray, English actor (b. 1928) Masami Yoshida, Japanese athlete (b. 1958)
March 9 Artyom Borovik, Russian journalist and media magnate (b. 1960) Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and music educator (b. 1908)
March 11 Will Roberts, British painter (b. 1907) Alfred Schwarzmann, German gymnast (b. 1912)
March 20 – Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1961)
March 27 – Ian Dury, British rock musician (b. 1942)
March 28 – Anthony Powell, British author (b. 1905)
March 30 – Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian diplomat and 8th President of Austria (b. 1915)
April
April 2 – Tommaso Buscetta, Italian mafioso informant (b. 1928)
April 3 – Terence McKenna, American writer, philosopher, writer and entheogen advocate (b. 1946)
April 4 – Derek Allhusen, British equestrian (b. 1914)
April 5 – Lee Petty, American race-car driver (b. 1914)
April 6 – Habib Bourguiba, 1st President of Tunisia (b. 1903)
April 8 Bernie Grant, British politician (b. 1944) Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910)
April 10 Rabah Bitat, Algerian politician and Interim President of Algeria (b. 1925) Larry Linville, American actor (b. 1939)
April 11 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
April 13 – Albert Turner, American civil rights activist (b. 1936)
April 14 – Phil Katz, American computer programmer (b. 1962)
April 15 – Edward Gorey, American writer and illustrator (b. 1925)
April 16 – Putra of Perlis, Malaysian King (b. 1920)
April 25 – David Merrick, American stage producer (b. 1911)
April 27 – Vicki Sue Robinson, American singer and actress (b. 1954)
April 28 – Penelope Fitzgerald, English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer
April 29 – Phạm Văn Đồng, 2nd Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) (b. 1906)
April 30 – Poul Hartling, Danish diplomat and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1914)
May
May 1 Steve Reeves, American actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926) Jukka Tapanimäki, Finnish game programmer (b. 1961)
May 2 – Sundar Popo, Indo-Trinidadian chutney musician (b. 1943)
May 3 – Júlia Báthory, Hungarian glass designer (b. 1901)
May 7 – Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American actor (b. 1909)
May 8 – Hubert Maga, 1st President of Dahomey (b. 1916)
May 10 Kaneto Shiozawa, Japanese voice actor (b. 1954) Craig Stevens, American actor (b. 1918)
May 11 – René Muñoz, Cuban actor and screenwriter (b. 1938)
May 12 – Adam Petty, American NASCAR driver (b. 1980)
May 13 Paul Bartel, American actor, writer and director (b. 1938) Tomomi Tsuruta, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1951)
May 14 – Keizō Obuchi, Japanese politician, 54th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
May 19 Petter Hugsted, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper (b. 1921) Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1933)
May 20 Edward Bernds, American director (b. 1905) Malik Sealy, American basketball player (b. 1970)
May 21 Dame Barbara Cartland, British novelist (b. 1901) Sir John Gielgud, British actor (b. 1904) Mark R. Hughes, American MLM founder (b. 1956) Erich Mielke, German secret police official (b. 1907)
May 24 – Oleg Yefremov, Soviet/Russian actor and producer (b. 1927)
May 25 – Francis Lederer, French film and stage actor (b. 1899)
May 27 Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912) Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)
May 30 – Doris Hare, British actress (b. 1905)
May 31 Petar Mladenov, Bulgarian diplomat and politician, 1st President of Bulgaria (b. 1936) Tito Puente, American jazz musician (b. 1923)
June
June 3 – Merton Miller, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
June 10 Hafez al-Assad, Syrian politician and general, 18th President of Syria (b. 1930) Frank Patterson, Irish tenor (b. 1938)
June 12 – Logan Ramsey, American actor (b. 1921)
June 14 – Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (b. 1906)
June 16 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
June 17 – Ismail Mahomed, South African and Namibian Chief Justice (b. 1931)
June 18 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
June 19 – Noboru Takeshita, Japanese politician, 46th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1924)
June 21 – Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
June 24 – David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917)
June 27 – Pierre Pflimlin, French politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
June 29 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
July
July 1 – Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
July 2 – Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcyclist (b. 1952)
July 6 – Lazar Koliševski, 2nd President of Yugoslavia (b. 1914)
July 7 Kenny Irwin Jr., NASCAR Driver (b. 1969) James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (b. 1921)
July 8 – FM-2030, Transhumanist philosopher (b. 1930)
July 10 Vakkom Majeed, Indian freedom fighter and Legislative member (b. 1909) Denis O'Conor Don, hereditary chief of the O'Conor Don sept of Ireland (b. 1912)
July 11 – Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
July 12 – Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer (b. 1908)
July 15 – Kalle Svensson, Swedish footballer (b. 1925)
July 21 – Yosef Qafih, Israeli rabbi (b. 1917)
July 27 – Virginia Admiral, American painter and poet (b. 1915)
July 28 – Abraham Pais, American physicist (b. 1918)
July 29 – René Favaloro, Argentinian cardiologist (b. 1923)
August
August 3 – Isolina Ferre, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic nun (b. 1914)
August 5 Otto Buchsbaum, German writer and ecological activist (b. 1920) Sir Alec Guinness, British actor and writer (b. 1914)
August 6 Sir Robin Day, British political broadcaster (b. 1923) Don A. Jones, American admiral and civil engineer (b. 1912)
August 8 – K. Kailasanatha Kurukkal, Sri Lankan researcher, writer and professor (b. 1921)
August 9 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist (b. 1920)
August 12 Dave Edwards, American musician (b. 1941) Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
August 13 – Nazia Hassan, Pakistani singer (b. 1964)
August 19 – Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo activist and leader (b. 1946)
August 20 – Bunny Austin, English tennis player (b. 1906)
August 21 – Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
August 22 – Abulfaz Elchibey, Azerbaijani political figure, 2nd President of Azerbaijan (b. 1938)
August 24 – Andy Hug, Swiss Seidokaikan karateka and kickboxer (b. 1964)
August 25 Carl Barks, American cartoonist and screenwriter (b. 1901) Ivan Stambolić, Serbian politician (b. 1936)
August 30 – David Haskell, American actor (b. 1948)
September
September 2 Elvera Sanchez, American dancer (b. 1905) Curt Siodmak, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1902) Jean Speegle Howard, American actress (b. 1927)
September 6 – Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (b. 1918)
September 14 – Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920)
September 16 – Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
September 17 Bakht Singh, Indian evangelist (b. 1903) Paula Yates, British television presenter (b. 1959)
September 19 Ann Doran, American actress (b. 1911) Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b. 1917)
September 20 – Gherman Titov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
September 22 – Saburō Sakai, Japanese fighter ace (b. 1916)
September 25 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
September 26 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)
September 27 – Sammy Luftspring, Canadian boxer (b. 1916)
September 28 Peter Gennaro, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919) Pote Sarasin, Thai diplomat and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1905) Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
September 29 – Maningning Miclat, Filipino poet and painter (b. 1972)
October
October 1 – Rosie Douglas, 5th Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1941)
October 3 – Benjamin Orr, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
October 4 – Michael Smith, English-born chemist (b. 1932)
October 6 – Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1920)
October 7 – Walter Krupinski, German fighter ace and general (b. 1920)
October 8 – Sheila Holland, English writer (b. 1937)
October 9 – Patrick Anthony Porteous, British recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
October 10 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Ceylon and 2-time Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
October 11 – Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937)
October 13 – Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926)
October 14 – Tony Roper, American NASCAR driver (b. 1964)
October 15 – Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist (b. 1912)
October 16 Mel Carnahan, American politician (b. 1934) Rick Jason, American actor (b. 1923)
October 18 Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926) Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (b. 1925)
October 19 – Charles Perkins, Australian aboriginal activist and soccer player (b. 1936)
October 21 – Reginald Kray, British criminal (b. 1933)
October 22 Fred Pratt Green, British Methodist minister and hymn writer (b. 1903) Jean-Luc Mandaba, 11th Prime Minister of Central African Republic (b. 1943)
October 23 Rodney Anoa'i, American wrestler (b. 1966) Nils Tapp, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (b. 1917)
October 27 – Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
October 28 – Andújar Cedeño, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
October 30 – Steve Allen, American comedian and author (b. 1921)
October 31 – Ring Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter (b. 1915)
November
November 5 David Brower, American environmental activist (b. 1912) Jimmie Davis, American singer (b. 1899) Roger Peyrefitte, French writer and diplomat (b. 1907)
November 6 – L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
November 7 C Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910) Ingrid of Sweden, Queen consort of Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1910)
November 8 – Józef Pińkowski, Polish politician, 50th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1929)
November 10 Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Greek lawyer and professor, 168th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919) Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician, 102nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1915)
November 11 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
November 16 DJ Screw, American hip hop DJ (b. 1971) Hosea Williams, American civil rights leader, activist, minister, businessman, philanthropist, scientist, and politician (b. 1926)
November 17 – Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
November 19 – George Cosmas Adyebo, Ugandan economist and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1947)
November 20 – Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, Soviet and Russian animation director, animator, and artist (b. 1927)
November 22 Sir Cyril Astley Clarke, British physician, geneticist and entomologist (b. 1907) Christian Marquand, French actor and director (b. 1927) Emil Zátopek, Czechoslovakian Olympic athlete (b. 1922)
November 28 – Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)
December
December 2 – Gail Fisher, American actress (b. 1935)
December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American writer (b. 1917)
December 6 – Werner Klemperer, American actor (b. 1920)
December 8 – Ionatana Ionatana, 5th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1938)
December 10 Paul Avery, American journalist (b. 1934) Marie Windsor, American actress (b. 1919)
December 11 – Johannes Virolainen, Finnish politician, 30th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1914)
December 17 – Blaise Rabetafika, Malagasy diplomat (b. 1932)
December 18 – Kirsty MacColl, English singer (b. 1959)
December 19 John Lindsay, American politician and lawyer, Mayor of New York City (b. 1921) Roebuck "Pops" Staples, American musician (b. 1914) Son Sann, Cambodian politician, 24th Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1911)
December 23 Billy Barty, American actor (b. 1924) Victor Borge, Danish-born American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
December 26 – Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922)
December 30 – Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (b. 1909)
December 31 – Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, Israeli settler leader (b. 1966)
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry – Alan J. Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid, and Hideki Shirakawa
Economics – James Heckman and Daniel McFadden
Literature – Gao Xingjian
Peace – Kim Dae-jung
Physics – Zhores Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, and Jack Kilby
Physiology or Medicine – Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, and Eric Kandel
See also
2000 in politics
Y2K (disambiguation)
Year 2000 problem