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Calendar overview 2000
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| 2000 in other calendars | |
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| From urbe condita | 2753 |
| Armenian calendar | 1448-1449 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1992-1993 |
| Badi calendar | 156-157 |
| Bengali calendar | 1406-1407 |
| Berber calendar | 2950 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2544 |
| Burmese calendar | 1362 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7508-7509 |
| Chinese calendar | |
| - era | 4696-4697 or 4636-4637 |
| - 60 year cycle |
Earth Rabbit (己卯, 16) - |
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French revolution calendar |
CCVIII - CCIX 208-209 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5760-5761 |
| Hindu calendar | |
| - Vikram Sambat | 2056-2057 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1922-1923 |
| Iranian calendar | 1378-1379 |
| Islamic calendar | 1420-1421 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Nengō (era): | Heisei 12 |
| - Kōki | 2660 |
| Coptic calendar | 1716-1717 |
| Korean calendar | |
| - Dangun era | 4333 |
| - Juche era | 89 |
| Minguo calendar | 89 |
| Modern Olympics | XXVII |
| Seleucid calendar | 2311-2312 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2543 |
The year 2000 marks the last year of the 20th century and the first of the 2000s , making it a secular year . It is also a leap year and has 366 days.
Annual dedications
- 2000 is the “International Year of Physics” and the year of physics within the framework of the Science in Dialogue initiative of the BMBF .
- International Year for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence ( UNESCO )
- 2000 is the great jubilee year of the Roman Catholic Church .
- Black money affair is word of the year .
- National Liberated Zone is the bad word of the year .
Species protection
- The king fly mushroom ( Amanita regalis ) is mushroom of the year (German Society for Mycology)
- The red kite ( Milvus milvus ) is bird of the year ( NABU / Germany)
- The sand birch ( Betula pendula ) is tree of the year (Kuratorium Baum des Jahres / Germany)
- The Red Forest Bird ( Cephalanthera rubra ) is Orchid of the Year (Arbeitsgruppe Heimische Orchideen / Germany)
- The Aesculapian snake ( Zamenis longissima longissima ) is Wild Animal of the Year ( Schutzgemeinschaft Deutsches Wild )
- The stonecrop ( Sedum ) is Perennial of the Year (federal German perennials gardener)
- The Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar ) is the fish of the year (Verband Deutscher Sportfischer e.V.)
- The purple stone seed ( Buglossoides purpurocaerulea ) is Flower of the Year ( Nature and Plants Foundation )
- The rosemary ( Rosmarinus officinalis ) is a medicinal plant of the year
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Events
Politics and world events
January
- This month, the Bonn public prosecutor's office started investigations against Helmut Kohl on suspicion of infidelity. Walther Leisler Kiep becomes a central figure in the CDU donation affair . Later there were also critical questions about dubious events surrounding the federal chairman of the CDU, Wolfgang Schäuble , who announced his resignation on February 16.
- January 1 : Adolf Ogi becomes President of Switzerland again .
- January 1 : The new Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation comes into force.
- January 1 : Turkmenistan abolishes the death penalty .
- January 7th : Monaco opens its own permanent representation to the EU in Brussels .
- January 9 : Islom Karimov is again as president in Uzbekistan confirmed in office.
- January 18 : CDU donation affair : At the request of the party, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl resigns as honorary chairman of the CDU.
- January 21st : The President of Ecuador Jamil Mahuad is overthrown in a coup.
- January 24th : The television station N24 starts broadcasting.
- January 31 : EU sanctions against the Austrian government
February
- February 4th : Inauguration of the first government between ÖVP-FPÖ in Austria
- February 8 : Greece . Konstantinos Stefanopoulos is re-elected President .
- February 15 : Accession negotiations between the EU and Bulgaria , Latvia , Lithuania , Malta , Romania and Slovakia begin.
- February 15 : Mandé Sidibé becomes Prime Minister of Mali .
- February 15 : Slovakia begins accession negotiations with the EU .
- February 18 : Stjepan Mesić is President in Croatia .
- February 20 : Parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan
- February 27 : Parliamentary elections in Tajikistan
March
- The dot-com bubble bursts: Worldwide speculative losses in high-tech companies
- March 1 : Finland . Tarja Halonen becomes President .
- March 1 : Treaty on a free trade area between the EU and Morocco until 2010
- March 1 : Patrick Leclercq becomes Minister of State and Foreign Minister of Monaco .
- March 1st : Dr. Jorge Batlle becomes President of Uruguay .
- March 8 : The de facto autonomous Brčko district is established in Bosnia and Herzegovina .
- March 11th : Chile . Ricardo Lagos is the new Prime Minister .
- March 23 : Rwanda . Resignation of President Pasteur Bizimungu
- March 26th : Greece. The Schengen Agreement is fully implemented.
- March 26th : In the Russian presidential elections , the acting incumbent Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is elected president with 52.9 percent of the vote in the first round .
April
- April 1 : Abdoulaye Wade is President in Senegal .
- April 8 : Parliamentary elections in Nauru
- April 9 : Eduard Shevardnadze is re-elected President of Georgia .
- April 10th : Angela Merkel , Secretary General of the CDU , succeeds Wolfgang Schäuble in office and becomes Federal Chairwoman of the CDU
- April 20 : Presidential elections in Nauru. Bernard Dowiyogo becomes the new president .
- April 21 / April 22 : LTTE fighters capture the important military base of the Sri Lankan army on the Elephant Pass in a surprise attack .
- April 22nd : Paul Kagame becomes President of Rwanda.
- April 23 : Malaysia . Members of the Abu Sajaf kidnap 22 vacationers and hotel employees on the island of Sipadan and kidnap them to the Philippine island of Jolo .
May
- May 1st : The German Horst Köhler becomes director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
- May 4th : Great Britain . First direct election of the Mayor of Greater London
- May 11th : According to official figures, India's population exceeds one billion.
- May 15 : Armenia's new head of government becomes Andranik Markarjan .
- May 17th : Ahmet Necdet Sezer becomes President of Turkey .
- May 19 : Coup on Fiji
- May 20 : Chen Shui-bian becomes head of state in Taiwan .
- May 25 : Croatia becomes a member of the PfP (Partnership for Peace) of NATO .
- May 25 : Israel withdraws from southern Lebanon and ends the occupation of Lebanon .
June
- June 1 : The Association Agreement between Israel and the EU comes into force.
- June 1 : The world exhibition EXPO 2000 in Hanover opens (until October 31, 2000) .
- June 12 : Yemen recognizes the border with Saudi Arabia in the treaty with Jeddah .
- June 13 : Coup in the Solomon Islands
- June 14 : Georgia joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).
- June 14th : The nuclear consensus is initialed in Germany . The red-green federal government under Gerhard Schröder is changing its nuclear policy and is starting to phase out nuclear power .
- June 19 : In the port of Dover , British customs officials discover 58 bodies behind tomato crates while checking an arriving truck . The Chinese should in the way of human trafficking are smuggled illegal, but stifled the failure of the ventilation system for the container .
- June 23 : Ethiopia signs the Cotonou Agreement with the EU.
July
- July 1 : The right to a non-violent upbringing is legally enshrined in Germany (see children's rights )
- July 1st : The Øresund connection , a 16-kilometer connection from Copenhagen to Malmö , is opened by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and King Carl XVI. Gustaf of Sweden opened.
- July 1st : Horses in Germany receive their own identity document , the equine passport . The slaughter of animals for which there is no document is prohibited.
- July 2 : Presidential elections in Mexico
- July 17 : Bashar al-Assad becomes President of Syria .
- July 18 : For the first time a British opened Head of State a message abroad. Queen Elizabeth II officially hands over the British Embassy in Berlin as diplomatic representation .
- July 26 : Nambaryn Enchbajar becomes President of Mongolia
- July 27th : Macedonia . 4. Government reshuffle
August
- August 1st : Moshe Katsav becomes President of Israel
- August 16 : Rafael Hipólito Mejía Domínguez becomes President of the Dominican Republic .
- August 27 : A fire breaks out in Moscow's Ostankino TV tower .
September
- September 5 : Tuvalu becomes a member of the United Nations .
- September 23 : Wreckage of the Star Dust aircraft, which has disappeared since 1947 , is found.
- September 24th : Early presidential elections and elections to the Yugoslav federal parliament.
- September 28 : Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem triggers the second Intifada .
- September 28 : Denmark . In a referendum, Danish voters reject the introduction of the common currency, the euro .
- September 29 : The German Bundesrat holds its first meeting in the Prussian mansion in Berlin after moving from Bonn.
October
- October 2 : Arson attack on the New Synagogue in Düsseldorf by two young people of Arab origin.
- October 3 : Resignation of Prime Minister Tang Fei in Taiwan
- October 3 : SIMAP ruling by the European Court of Justice : The ECJ ruled that the on- call duty of Spanish doctors is not to be considered as a rest period but as a full working time . This ruling has legal implications for hospitals in all EU countries
- October 5th : Peaceful mass protests in Serbia and Montenegro
- October 7th : Grand Duke Henri , Duke of Luxembourg , Duke of Nassau, becomes head of state in Luxembourg after the abdication of his father Jean
- October 7th : Vojislav Koštunica becomes the new President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- October 8 : Aleksander Kwasniewski is as President in Poland confirmed in office
- October 10 : Oman is admitted to the WTO (World Trade Organization).
- October 10 : In the parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka in 2000 , the previously ruling People's Alliance loses its previous parliamentary majority.
- October 20 : In Florence, a European landscape agreement is concluded by various states, initiated by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe . The aim of the agreement is to protect the cultural landscape .
- October 22nd : Ivory Coast . Presidential election
- October 26 : Ivory Coast. Laurent Gbagbo becomes President
- October 26 : Serbia and Montenegro joins the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe
- October 26 : The euro hits its all-time low against the US dollar at 0.8225 US dollars
- October 29 : Presidential elections in Kyrgyzstan : Askar Akayev is again as president confirmed
November
- November 1st : Serbia and Montenegro becomes a member of the United Nations.
- November 1st : Chhattisgarh becomes the new state of India .
- November 5th : Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan
- November 7th : US presidential election
- November 7th : The Spanish desert Bardenas Reales in Navarre is declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO .
- November 9 : Uttaranchal (later renamed Uttarakhand ) becomes the new state of India .
- November 15 : The new state of Jharkhand is formed from the southern part of the Indian state of Bihar .
- November 21 : The Peruvian Congress removes President Alberto Fujimori from office.
- November 24 : Stabilization and Association Agreement between Macedonia and the EU
- November 24th : The first BSE case becomes known in Germany.
- November 26th : Parliamentary elections in Romania
- November 27 : Serbia and Montenegro joins the OSCE .
- November 30th : Dissolution of the government coalition in Macedonia
December
- December 1 : Vicente Fox Quesada becomes President of Mexico .
- December 10 : Ion Iliescu becomes President of Romania.
- December 11 : France pledges $ 440 million in aid to Burundi .
- December 12th : Peace Treaty of Algiers between Ethiopia and Eritrea
- December 12th : A Supreme Court decision awards George W. Bush victory in the election as the new President of the United States .
- December 20 : Serbia and Montenegro becomes a member of UNESCO .
- December 28 : Adrian Năstase becomes Prime Minister in Romania.
economy
- January 10 : AOL and Time Warner announce their intention to merge . The new company will be called AOL Time Warner .
- February 4th : After a month-long takeover battle, the long-established company Mannesmann AG becomes part of the Vodafone Group , making it the world's largest mobile communications provider.
- February 17th : Microsoft launches its Windows 2000 operating system .
- 23 May : Merger between the French banks Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas to form BNP Paribas
- June 19 : The Pfizer - Group merged in the pharmaceutical industry for a hostile takeover by Warner-Lambert Corporation, which also the German subsidiary Gödecke gets new owner.
- June 21 : The first ISO newsletter appears: ISO 3166–2: 2000-06-21
- July 26th : The pharmaceutical and chemical groups Novartis and AstraZeneca are able to form Syngenta , the world's new largest producer of crop protection products, following a decision by the EU Commission .
- July 27th : The San Francisco Chronicle is sold to Hearst Corporation by the family that owns it .
- August 4 : DaimlerChrysler announces that it will sell its subsidiary Adtranz to the Canadian company Bombardier Transportation . As a result, Adtranz changed hands in 2001, which in some cases led to job losses for employees.
- August 18 : The auction of UMTS licenses in Germany comes to an end with proceeds of 50.8 billion euros.
- August 25 : In the western Turkish city of İzmir , the İzmir Metro is ceremoniously put into operation. The place is the fourth city in the country to have an underground railway .
- September 9 : Due to its immense inflation rate, Ecuador abolishes its currency Sucre and switches to the US dollar .
- September 22nd : The Paris , Brussels and Amsterdam stock exchanges merge to form Euronext .
- September 22nd : With the cessation of production, the Fiat 126 becomes a historic automobile .
- October 4th : Production of the small Rover Mini ends in Birmingham . From BMW one series is placed in a modified version of the Acquisition.
- October 30 : In Tajikistan , the new national currency Somoni replaces the Tajik ruble.
- November 20 : The IPO of Deutsche Post AG provides the Federal Republic of Germany and the Reconstruction Loan Corporation with proceeds of around 6.6 billion euros. Both of them parted with 29 percent of the share capital of Post.
- VEBA and VIAG merge to form E.ON.
- AV Packaging (Allianz Capital Partners and E.ON ) takes over 97.3% of the packaging group Schmalbach-Lubeca
- Reestablishment of Zurich Financial Services as holding company
- Merger between the French oil companies Elf Aquitaine and Total
- Acquisition of Estonian Railways Edelaraudtee by GB Railways
society
- April 8 : Installation of the first German baby hatch in Hamburg-Altona .
- May 3 : In Portland (Oregon) , Dave Ulmer starts the GPS scavenger hunt geocaching by hiding the first container.
- June 13 : Pope assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca is extradited from Rome to Turkey after being pardoned by Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi after 19 years in prison, where he is convicted of murder.
- July 13 : On the second “Social Day” organized by Schüler Helfen Leben , 100,000 schoolchildren in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg swap their school desk for a paid job and donate over 2.1 million euros to charity.
science and technology
- March 17th : The Museum for Communication opens in Berlin in the former building of the Reichspostmuseum.
- May 5th : At 10:08 CEST there is a very rare planetary constellation: seen from the sun to a syzygy , seen from the earth to a conjunction , with the earth, moon, sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are almost in line. The next such constellation doesn't come back until 2675.
- July 13 : During excavations in Veliky Novgorod , the Novgorod Code is found. The wax tablet book is so far the oldest discovered book of Rus .
- July 29th : With 100 tons of TNT the last tunnel on the former Soviet nuclear weapons test site Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan is blown up and the former nuclear use is ended.
- August 8 : The wreck of the Confederate submarine CSS Hunley , which sank in 1864 , is recovered off Charleston, South Carolina .
- August 24 : In the science magazine Nature , the discovery of the only known argon compound, argon fluorohydride, is reported by a research group led by the Finnish chemist Markku Räsänen in Helsinki.
- September 14th : Microsoft releases Windows ME , the last Windows of the Windows 9x line, which is based on MS-DOS .
- October 19 : In the British science journal Nature , US researchers report that they have revived a 250 million year old bacterium .
- October 31 : The Soyuz TM-31 mission starts its first crew for the International Space Station (ISS) .
- November 27 : The longest road tunnel in the world, the 24.5 kilometer Lærdal Tunnel ( Norway ), is opened to traffic.
- November 28th : In the pitch drop experiment , which has been running since 1927, the eighth drop falls.
- December 12th : The August-Horch-Museum is founded in Zwickau , which keeps the memory of a car pioneer and the West Saxon automotive industry alive.
- December 14 : The genome of the plant often used in research thale cress has been fully sequenced .
- The human genome project is complete.
Culture
- April 15 : New Museum Nuremberg opens.
- May: First Blue Night in Nuremberg
- July 8 : " Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire " appears with an initial circulation of 3.8 million copies in the USA and 1.5 million copies in England.
- October 14 : "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" appears with an initial circulation of one million copies in Germany.
- Foundation of the Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín ( Czech Republic )
music
- May 13 : The Olsen Brothers won in Stockholm with the song Fly on the Wings of Love for Denmark , the 45th edition of the Euro Vision Song Contest .
- December 5th : Rage Against the Machine release their last album Renegades and split up shortly after for seven years.
See also: Number one hits 2000 in Australia , Belgium , Denmark , Germany , Finland , France , Ireland , Italy , Japan , Canada , New Zealand , the Netherlands , Norway , Austria , Poland , Sweden , Switzerland , Spain , Hungary , the United States and the United Kingdom .
religion
- June 26th : The third of the Three Mysteries of Fátima is made public in Rome by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Tarcisio Bertone , secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith .
- July 30th : The millennial anniversary of the construction of the first sacred building in Iceland is an occasion for Norway to present the island nation with the Heimaey stave church , a replica of a medieval stave church .
- August 20 : The Russian Orthodox Church canonize Tsar Nicholas II , his wife and children because of their martyrdom in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior .
- November 26th : Pope John Paul II proclaims the Basic Law of the State of Vatican City , which replaces the previous constitution from 1929 on February 22, 2001.
Sports
For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .
- March 16 : The Formula 1 racing team Benetton Formula is sold for 120 million US dollars and joins the Renault F1 team after the 2001 racing season .
- March 18 : Wladimir Klitschko wins his boxing match against Paea Wolfgramm in the Sporthalle Hamburg in Hamburg , Germany , by knockout.
- April 1 : Vitali Klitschko loses his boxing match against Chris Byrd in the Estrel Convention Center , Berlin , Germany, due to a technical knockout.
- April 20 : Panathinaikos Athens defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv 73:67 in the final of the European championship basketball cup and won this title for the second time.
- April 26 : The national soccer team of the federation founded in 1994 in Andorra celebrates its first international success with a 2-0 win over the Belarusian national soccer team .
- April 29 : Wladimir Klitschko wins his boxing match against David Bostice in Madison Square Garden , New York , USA , by technical knockout.
- April 29 : Lennox Lewis wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Michael Grant in Madison Square Garden , New York , USA , by knockout.
- May 17 : Galatasaray Istanbul wins the UEFA Cup final in Copenhagen against Arsenal FC 4-1 on penalties.
- June 2 : The Weber Cup , a place held annually bowling tournament between the United States and Europe , was first held. The USA win 18:11.
- June 10 : In the opening game of the eleventh European Football Championship 2000 , which has two hosts for the first time with Belgium and the Netherlands , the Belgian team wins 2-1 in Brussels against Sweden .
- July 2nd : France wins the European soccer championship in Rotterdam with a 2-1 win against Italy .
- July 15 : Wladimir Klitschko wins his boxing match against Monte Barrett at the London Arena in London , Great Britain , by technical knockout.
- July 15 : Lennox Lewis wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Francois Botha in the London Arena, London, Great Britain, by technical knockout.
- September 15 to October 1 : The XXVII. Summer Olympics are held in Sydney , Australia .
- October 7th : The last football game before the stadium is demolished takes place at Wembley Stadium in London . With Dietmar Hamann the German 1-0 win against England ends the row of all scorers in the old stadium.
- October 8 : The Slovenian Davo Karničar is the first person to succeed in a complete ski run from Mount Everest .
- October 14 : Wladimir Klitschko wins his boxing match against Chris Byrd by winning points.
- October 15 : Kenny Roberts Jr. (USA) on Suzuki wins the Motorcycle Grand Prix of Japan and becomes the new world champion in the class up to 500 cm³ of the motorcycle world championship .
- October 22 : Michael Schumacher becomes Formula 1 world champion with Ferrari for the first time . His third world title.
- November 4th : Garry Kasparov loses the classic world chess title to Vladimir Kramnik after fifteen years .
- November 11th : Lennox Lewis wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against David Tua in Mandalay Bay , Las Vegas , Nevada , USA, by winning on points.
- November 25 : Vitali Klitschko wins his boxing match against Toni Hoffmann in the Preussag Arena , Hanover , Germany, by winning on points.
Disasters
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
- January 30th : Dam breakage of a tailings plant in Baia Mare (Romania), resulting in a serious environmental disaster.
- January 30 : On the Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes a Airbus A310 of Kenya Airways after takeoff from Abidjan before Ivory Coast into the Atlantic . Of the 179 people on board, 169 die.
- February 23 : Mozambique sinks in the water, more than a million people are affected by the flood, hundreds of deaths are left. ( see floods in Mozambique 2000 )
- April 19 : Samal Island , Philippines . A Boeing 737 crashes about 6 kilometers from the runway during the approach . All 131 people on board die.
- May 13 : An explosion in a fireworks factory destroys parts of the city of Enschede .
- June 4 : A 7.9 earthquake struck Sumatra , Indonesia , killing 103.
- July 25 : 113 people are killed in the crash of a French Concorde near Paris . Air France then ceases flight operations with the Concorde, the British aviation authority withdraws the Concorde's certificate of airworthiness , which it only regains after numerous design changes.
- August 12 : Sinking of the Russian submarine K-141 Kursk , 118 dead
- August 23 : Oman . Crash of an Airbus A320 of Gulf Air during the landing approach about 3 kilometers from the runway . All 143 people on board die.
- November 11 : 155 people died in a tunnel in the fire disaster on the Kaprun 2 glacier lift in Austria.
Born
First quarter
- January 1st : Nicolas Kühn , German soccer player
- January 6th : Fiete Arp , German soccer player
- January 6th : Iker Lecuona , Spanish motorcycle racer
- January 8 : Noah Cyrus , American actress
- January 8th : Jannyk Wissmann , German handball player
- January 11th : Jamie Bick , German actress
- January 11th : Marrit Steenbergen , Dutch swimmer
- January 14 : Jonathan David , Canadian-Haitian soccer player
- January 14th : Marcel Zylla , Polish-German football player
- January 25 : Remco Evenepoel , Belgian cyclist
- January 26 : Ester Expósito , Spanish actress
- January 20th : Mike Singer , German pop singer and songwriter
- January 28th : Nicole Maurer , Canadian ski jumper
- February 4th : Vincent Thill , Luxembourg soccer player
- February 7th : Kira Lipperheide , German bobsledder
- February 10 : Yara Shahidi , Iranian-American actress
- February 16 : Yan Bingtao , Chinese snooker player
- February 16 : Julia Mrozinski , German swimmer
- February 20 : Josh Sargent , American soccer player
- February 22nd : Adrian Stanilewicz , Polish-German soccer player
- February 23 : Arantxa Lancho , German ski jumper
- February 28 : Moise Kean , Italian soccer player
- March 1 : Ahmed Kutucu , Turkish-German soccer player
- March 8 : Jonas David , German soccer player
- March 8 : Viktor Đerek , Croatian photographer and human rights activist
- March 10 : Ren Mikase , Japanese ski jumper
- March 21 : Jace Norman , American actor
- March 22nd : Lina Keller , German child actress
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- March 24th : Stavroula Tsolakidou , Greek chess player
- March 25 : Jadon Sancho , English soccer player
- March 27 : Sophie Nélisse , Canadian actress
- March 28 : Aleyna Tilki , Turkish pop singer
- March 31 : Elias Abouchabaka , German soccer player
Second quarter
- April 5 : Ayush Mahesh Khedekar , Indian actor
- April 6 : CJ Adams , American actor
- April 9 : Jackie Evancho , American mezzo-soprano
- April 11 : Morgan Lily , American actress
- April 12th : Suzanna von Nathusius , Polish actress
- April 15 : Lily Pilblad , American actress
- April 17th : Maurice Conrad , German climate protection activist and politician
- April 25 : Tarik Abdi , Bulgarian ice hockey player
- April 27 : David Beckmann , German automobile racing driver
- May 3rd : Meira Durand , German actress
- May 4th : Agustín Urzi , Argentinian football player
- May 8 : Marie Reim , German pop singer
- May 12th : Desiree Di Benedetto , Italian chess player
- May 16 : Tim Georgi , German motorcycle racer
- May 23 : Greta Bohacek , German child actress
- May 25 : Berke Özer , Turkish soccer player
- May 26th : Hannah Neise , German skeleton pilot
- May 30 : Jared S. Gilmore , American actor
- June 1st : Ludovit Reis , Dutch-Slovak football player
- June 1 : Willow Shields , American actress
- June 12 : Luis Lehnert , German Nordic combined athlete
- June 18 : Hans Nicolussi , Italian football player
- June 19 : Sydney Lohmann , German soccer player
- June 22nd : Åsne Skrede , Norwegian biathlete
- June 24th : Nehuén Pérez , Argentinian soccer player
- June 26th : Alessia Crippa , Italian skeleton pilot
Third quarter
- July 6th : Paula Rakijašić , Croatian athlete
- July 7th : Mercedes Jadea Diaz , German child actress
- July 12th : Iver Hexeberg , Norwegian telemarker
- July 12 : Vinícius Júnior , Brazilian soccer player
- July 15 : Paulinho , Brazilian soccer player
- July 17th : Nico Liersch , German actor
- July 17th : Roven Vogel , German chess player
- July 21 : Erling Haaland , Norwegian football player
- July 21 : Jens Lurås Oftebro , Norwegian Nordic combined skier
- July 23 : Derya Flechtner , German voice actress and actress
- July 28th : Mero , German rapper
- July 29 : Lino Facioli , Austrian actor
- July 30th : Laura Müller , German It-Girl and reality show participant
- July 31 : Kim Sae-ron , South Korean actress
- August 1st : Jaden Bojsen , German actor and singer
- August 3rd : Tony Arbolino , Italian motorcycle racer
- August 3 : Landry Bender , American actress
- August 7th : Lucie-Marie Kretzschmar , German handball player
- August 8th : Félix Auger-Aliassime , Canadian tennis player
- August 13 : Léa Mariage , German voice actress
- August 15 : Franklyn Aunitz , German basketball player
- August 20 : Fátima Ptacek , American actress and model
- August 31 : Angel Gomes , Anglo-Portuguese football player
- September 2nd : Lisa Grill , Austrian ski racer
- September 3 : Ashley Boettcher , American actress
- September 4th : Sergio Gómez , Spanish football player
- September 8 : Alvar Goetze , German actor
- September 8 : Hakan Salt , Turkish ice hockey player
- September 9 : Rabbi Matondo , Welsh football player
- September 14th : Gianna Rackow , German soccer player
- September 20 : Mathias Jørgensen , Danish football player
- September 27 : Max Burkhart , German ski racer († 2017 )
- September 29th : Amy Baserga , Swiss biathlete
Fourth Quarter
- October 10 : Felix Nmecha , German-English soccer player
- October 11 : Hayden Byerly , American actor
- October 11 : Neele Marie Nickel , German actress
- October 15th : Maren Tellenbröker , German soccer player
- October 25 : Dominik Szoboszlai , Hungarian football player
- October 30th : Jeffery Xiong , American chess grandmaster
- October 31 : Willow Smith , American actress
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- November 1st : Elena Wassen , German diver
- November 7th : Callum Hudson-Odoi , Anglo-Ghanaian soccer player
- November 8 : Jasmine Thompson , British singer
- November 10 : Mackenzie Foy , American actress
- November 15 : Coco Grayson , American actress
- November 20 : Connie Talbot , British singer
- November 21 : Dārta Zunte , Latvian skeleton skier
- November 29th : Yann Aurel Bisseck , German soccer player
- December 1st : Sophia Flörsch , German racing car driver
- December 3rd : Greta Martinelli , Italian rower
- December 10 : Levent Mercan , German football player
- December 11th : Josha Vagnoman , German soccer player
- December 13th : Simona Waltert , Swiss tennis player
- December 14th : Daryna Siranchuk , Ukrainian pool player
- December 22nd : Thea Sofie Kleven , Norwegian ski jumper († 2018 )
- December 22nd : Kinga Rajda , Polish ski jumper
- December 24th : Maria Ludovica Costa , Italian rower
- December 26th : Isac Elliot , Finnish pop singer
- December 26th : Samuel Sevian , American chess grandmaster
- December 29th : Sander Vossan Eriksen , Norwegian ski jumper
Day unknown
- Can Açıkgöz , German-Turkish audio book speaker
- Florian Burgkart , German actor
- Junis Noreick , German actor
- Charles Henry Wyson , American actor
Died
This is a list of the most significant people who passed away in 2000. For a more detailed list see Nekrolog 2000 .
January
- January 1 : Gerda Paumgarten , Austrian ski racer (* 1907 )
- January 2 : Nat Adderley , American jazz cornet player and trumpeter (* 1931 )
- January 2 : Clemens Heselhaus , German Germanist and literary scholar (* 1912 )
- January 2 : María de las Mercedes de Borbón y Orléans , mother of the Spanish King Juan Carlos I (* 1910 )
- January 2 : Patrick O'Brian , British writer (* 1914 )
- January 3 : Henry Hammill Fowler , American politician (* 1908 )
- January 3 : Steffen Mauersberger , German enduro athlete (* 1953 )
- January 4 : Tom Fears , American football player and coach (born 1922 )
- January 4th : Diether Krebs , German actor and cabaret artist (* 1947 )
- January 4 : Reinhard Riegel , German law and data protection expert (* 1942 )
- January 5 : Zygmund Przemyslaw Rondomanski , American composer (* 1908 )
- January 5 : Bernhard Wicki , Austrian actor and film director (* 1919 )
- January 6 : Don Martin , American cartoonist for MAD magazine (* 1931 )
- January 6th : Anatoli Wassiljewitsch Solowjow , Soviet actor (* 1922 )
- January 7th : Klaus Wennemann , German actor (* 1940 )
- January 8 : Karl Adamek , Austrian football player and coach (* 1910 )
- January 8 : Henry Eriksson , Swedish athlete and Olympic champion (* 1920 )
- January 8 : Fritz Thiedemann , German show jumper (* 1918 )
- January 8 : Herbert Turnauer , Austrian industrialist (* 1907 )
- January 9 : Bruno Zevi , Italian architect, architectural historian, author and university professor (* 1918 )
- January 10 : John Newland , American film director, film producer and screenwriter (* 1917 )
- January 12th : Marc Davis , American animator (* 1913 )
- January 14th : Meche Barba , Mexican actress and dancer (* 1922 )
- January 15 : Tadeusz Wroński , Polish violinist and music teacher (* 1915 )
- January 17 : Carl Forberg , American racing driver (* 1911 )
- January 17th : Philip Jones , English trumpeter and founder of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble (* 1928 )
- January 18 : Francis Haskell , English art historian (* 1928 )
- January 18 : Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky , Austrian architect (* 1897 )
- January 18 : Sadayoshi Tanabe , oldest man in the world from April 29, 1999 until his death (* 1888 )
- January 19 : Bettino Craxi , Italian socialist politician (* 1934 )
- January 19 : Hedy Lamarr , Austrian actress and inventor (* 1914 )
- January 19 : G. Ledyard Stebbins , American biologist, botanist (* 1906 )
- January 20 : John Donald Abney , American jazz pianist (* 1923 )
- January 26th : Donald Budge , American tennis player (* 1915 )
- January 26 : Liane Hielscher , German actress (* 1935 )
- January 26 : Alfred Elton van Vogt , Canadian science fiction writer (* 1912 )
- January 27 : Mae Faggs , American athlete and Olympic champion (* 1932 )
- January 27 : Friedrich Gulda , Austrian pianist and composer (* 1930 )
- January 27 : Jerzy Potz , Polish ice hockey player and coach (* 1953 )
- January 27 : Ōhara Tomie , Japanese writer (* 1912 )
- January 28 : Hans Winkler , German painter (* 1919 )
- January 29 : Thomas Bowles , American baritone saxophone player (* 1926 )
- January 29 : Heinz Flotho , German soccer player (* 1915 )
- January 29th : Hannes Schmidhauser , Swiss film actor, screenwriter and director (* 1926 )
- January 30th : Tatiana Ahlers-Hestermann , German textile, mosaic and glass artist (* 1919 )
- January 30th : Jimmy Haggett , American country and rockabilly musician (* 1928 )
- January 31 : Martin Benrath , German actor (* 1926 )
- January 31 : Gil Kane , Latvian-American comic artist (* 1926 )
February
- February 1 : Wilhelm Kümpel , German cathedral organist and church music director (* 1920 )
- February 3 : Richard G. Kleindienst , American politician (* 1923 )
- February 3 : Alla Rakha , Indian musician (tabla) (* 1919 )
- February 4 : Lothar Alisch , German politician (* 1951 )
- February 4 : Joachim-Ernst Berendt , German music journalist and critic (* 1922 )
- February 4 : Henry Jaeger , German writer (* 1927 )
- February 4 : Rodrigo Lloreda Caicedo , Colombian politician (* 1942 )
- February 5 : Claude Autant-Lara , French film director (* 1901 )
- February 5 : George Koltanowski , Belgian-American chess player (* 1903 )
- February 5 : Barbara Pentland , Canadian composer (* 1912 )
- February 6 : Derrol Lewis Thompson , American folk singer (* 1925 )
- February 6 : Gus Johnson , American jazz bassist (* 1913 )
- February 6 : Phil Walters , American racing car driver (* 1916 )
- February 7th : Big Pun , American rapper (born 1971 )
- February 7th : Dave Peverett , English blues and hard rock musician (* 1943 )
- February 8 : Sid Abel , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (* 1918 )
- February 8 : Ion Gheorghe Maurer , Romanian politician (* 1902 )
- February 8 : Angelika Mechtel , German writer (* 1943 )
- February 9 : Yevgeny Nikolajewitsch Andrejew , Russian test pilot and parachutist (* 1926 )
- February 9 : Hans Platschek , German painter and publicist (* 1923 )
- February 10 : Ronald Roseman , American oboist, music teacher and composer (* 1933 )
- February 10 : Androniqi Zengo Antoniu , Albanian painter (* 1913 )
- February 11 : Jacqueline Auriol , French pilot, was the first woman to break the sound barrier (* 1917 )
- February 11 : Slim Dortch , American country and rockabilly musician (* 1921 )
- February 11 : Lord Kitchener , Trinidadian composer and singer (* 1922 )
- February 11 : Dieter Pavlik , German politician (* 1935 )
- February 11 : Jindřich Praveček , Czech conductor and composer (brass music) (* 1909 )
- February 11 : Roger Vadim , French film director (* 1928 )
- February 12 : Jalacy Hawkins , American singer (born 1929 )
- February 12 : Tom Landry , American football player and coach (born 1924 )
Charles M. Schulz , 1956
- February 12 : Charles M. Schulz , American cartoonist and creator of the Peanuts (* 1922 )
- February 13 : Rudolf Asmus , Czech opera singer (* 1921)
- February 13 : James Cooke Brown , American sociologist and science fiction author (* 1921 )
- February 16 : Lila Kedrova , Russian actress (* 1909 )
- February 19 : Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Austrian painter and architect (* 1928 )
- February 19 : Anatoly Alexandrovich Sobchak , Russian politician (* 1937 )
- February 21 : Constance Cummings-John , Sierra Leonean suffragette, politician and teacher (* 1918 )
- February 22nd : Hubert Aratym , Austrian painter (* 1926 )
- February 22nd : Violet Archer , Canadian composer (* 1913 )
- February 22nd : Antonio Arguedas Mendieta , Bolivian politician (* 1928 )
- February 22nd : Dieter Borkowski , German writer, journalist and historian (* 1928 )
- February 22nd : Louis Mennini , American composer and music teacher (* 1920 )
- February 23 : Albrecht Goes , German writer and Protestant theologian (* 1908 )
- February 23 : Ofra Haza , Israeli singer (* 1957 )
- February 23 : Stanley Matthews , English football player (born 1915 )
- February 25 : Auguste Lechner , Austrian writer (* 1905 )
- February 26 : Franz Fuchs , Austrian letter bomb bomber (* 1949 )
- February 26 : Andrzej Hiolski , Polish singer (* 1922 )
- February 26 : Giovanna of Savoy , Tsarina of Bulgaria (* 1907 )
March
- March 1 : Russell Mathews , Australian economist (born 1921 )
- March 2 : Arlene Pach , Canadian pianist and music teacher (* 1928 )
- March 2 : Sandra Schmirler , Canadian curler and Olympic champion (* 1963 )
- March 2 : Franz Stadler , German functionary, ADAC President 1972–1989 (* 1913 )
- March 2 : Furusawa Taiho , Japanese haiku poet (* 1913 )
- March 3 : Hector Duhon , American fiddle player (Cajun music) (* 1915 )
- March 3 : Otto Grünmandl , Austrian cabaret artist and writer (* 1924 )
- March 3 : Toni Ortelli , Italian alpinist, conductor and composer (* 1904 )
- March 5 : Lolo Ferrari , French porn actress and singer (* 1963 )
- March 5 : Daniel Abraham Yanofsky , Canadian chess player (* 1925 )
- March 7th : William D. Hamilton , English biologist (* 1936 )
- March 7th : Edward H. Levi , American lawyer and politician (* 1911 )
- March 8 : René Gardi , Swiss travel writer (* 1909 )
- March 9 : Jean Coulthard , Canadian composer and music teacher (* 1908 )
- March 9 : Ivo Robić , Croatian pop singer (* 1923 )
- March 12 : Cloyd Duff , American timpanist (* 1915 )
- March 12 : Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei , American Archbishop of Philadelphia and Cardinal (* 1901 )
- March 13 : Jean-Luis Jorge , Dominican director, screenwriter, film and television producer (* 1947 )
- March 14 : Anne Wibble , Swedish politician, Minister of Finance 1991–1994 (* 1943 )
- March 16 : Morris B. Abram , American lawyer (* 1918 )
- March 16 : Roy Henderson , Scottish baritone and music teacher (* 1899 )
- March 16 : Victor Serventi , French composer (* 1907 )
- March 17th : Harry Blum , German politician (* 1944 )
- March 17 : Jack Davis , Australian playwright and poet (born 1917 )
- March 18 : Rudi von der Dovenmühle , German pop composer (* 1920 )
- March 18 : Eberhard Bethge , German theologian (* 1909 )
- March 21 : Wolfgang Greß , German economic functionary in the GDR (* 1929 )
- March 22nd : Max Epstein , American klezmer musician. (* 1912 )
- March 22nd : Hans-Günter Hoppe , German politician (* 1922 )
- March 22nd : Mark Lombardi , American artist (* 1951 )
- March 22nd : Carlo Parola , Italian football player and coach (* 1921 )
- March 23 : Yamamuro Shizuka , Japanese literary and cultural critic (* 1906 )
- March 24th : Al Gray , American jazz trombonist (* 1925 )
- March 26 : Len Younce , American football player (born 1917 )
- March 26 : Werner Zeyer , German politician (* 1929 )
- March 27 : Ian Dury , English musician, songwriter and actor (born 1942 )
- March 27 : Frank Strecker , German actor, director and author (* 1941 )
- March 29 : Hans Gustav Güterbock , German Hittiteologist (* 1908 )
- March 29 : Karl-Heinz Lauterjung , German physicist (* 1914 )
- March 29 : Anna Sokolow , American dancer and choreographer (* 1910 )
- March 30th : Jamal al-Atassi , Syrian politician (* 1922 )
- March 30 : George Keith Batchelor , Australian mathematician and physicist (* 1920 )
- March 30th : Rudolf Kirchschläger , diplomat, politician, Austrian Federal President (* 1915 )
- March 31 : Gisèle Freund , Franco-German photographer and photo historian (* 1908 )
- March 31 : Pierre Chancel , French racing driver (* 1920 )
April
- April 1 : Jean Delire , Belgian film director (* 1930 )
- April 2 : Fred Kwasi Apaloo , Ghanaian lawyer and politician (* 1921 )
- April 2 : Rigobert Günther , German ancient historian (* 1928 )
- April 3 : Mikołaj Antonowicz , Polish military (* 1915 )
- April 3 : Marta Hoepffner , German photographer (* 1912 )
- April 5 : Kiko Mendive , Cuban actor, choreographer, dancer and singer (* 1919 )
Habib Bourguiba († April 6)
- April 6 : Habib Bourguiba , Tunisian President (1957–1987) (* 1903 )
- April 6 : Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz , Archbishop of Guayaquil and Cardinal (* 1912 )
- April 6 : Knud Knudsen , German politician (* 1912 )
- April 6 : Álvaro Menéndez Leal , Salvadoran poet, storyteller, playwright, essayist and journalist (* 1931 )
- April 6 : Anton Stingl , German guitar interpreter and teacher (* 1908 )
- April 7 : Paulo Moacyr Barbosa Nascimento , Brazilian soccer player (* 1921 )
- April 8 : Ibrahim Ahmed , Kurdish author, writer and translator (* 1914 )
- April 8 : Claire Trevor , American actress (* 1910 )
- April 8 : Harry Williamson , American middle-distance runner (* 1913 )
- April 9 : Tony Cliff , British socialist (born 1917 )
- April 10 : Larry Linville , American actor (born 1939 )
- April 10 : Walter Stöhrer , German painter (* 1937 )
- April 11th : Marija Georgiewa Atanasowa , Bulgarian politician and pilot (* 1926 )
- April 11 : Ernst Voigt , German pilot and test pilot (* 1911 )
- April 13 : Giorgio Bassani , Italian writer and publicist (* 1916 )
- April 13th : Aivars Gipslis , Latvian chess player (* 1937 )
- April 14th : Phil Katz , inventor of ZIP compression (* 1962 )
- April 14 : Rudolf Widmann , Bavarian local and state politician (* 1929 )
- April 15 : Edward Gorey , American author and illustrator (* 1925 )
- April 15 : Todd Webb , American photographer (born 1905 )
- April 16 : Jean-Pierre Dautel , French conductor and composer (* 1917 )
- April 16 : Rudolf Grenz , historian and author (* 1929 )
- April 16 : Policarpio Juan Paz García , President of Honduras (* 1932 )
- April 18 : Martin Mailman , American composer and professor (* 1932 )
- April 20 : Willy Harlander , Bavarian folk actor (* 1931 )
- April 20 : Eugene Hartzell , American composer (* 1932 )
- April 25 : Niels Viggo Bentzon , Danish composer and pianist (* 1919 )
- April 26 : Joseph Bourdon , French racing car driver (* 1932 )
- April 26 : Joachim Kemmer , German actor (* 1939 )
- April 27 : Lothar Herbst , Polish poet and leading opposition activist (* 1940 )
- April 28 : Kim Borg , Finnish opera singer (* 1919 )
- April 28 : Jerzy Einhorn , professor of radiation therapy and politician (Kristdemokrat) (* 1925 )
- April 28 : Federico Brito Figueroa , Venezuelan Marxist historian and anthropologist (* 1921 )
- April 30 : Poul Hartling , Danish politician (* 1914 )
May
Keizō Obuchi († May 14)
- May 1 : Ángel E. Lasala , Argentine composer and pianist (* 1914 )
- May 3 : John Joseph O'Connor , Archbishop of New York and Cardinal (* 1920 )
- May 4 : Hendrik Casimir , Dutch physicist (* 1909 )
- May 5 : Gino Bartali , Italian racing cyclist (* 1914 )
- May 7th : Douglas Fairbanks Jr. , American film actor (born 1909 )
- May 8 : Coutoucou Hubert Maga , President of Benin (* 1916 )
- May 11 : Rudolf Pfister , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor (* 1909 )
- May 11 : Paula Wessely , Austrian film and theater actress (* 1907 )
- May 12 : Bradley J. Anderson , American costume designer (born 1957 )
- May 14 : Keizō Obuchi , 84th Japanese Prime Minister (* 1937 )
- May 16 : William Ferris , American composer, organist and choir director (* 1937 )
- May 16 : Andrzej Szczypiorski , Polish writer (* 1928 )
- May 20 : Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal , French flautist (* 1922 )
- May 21 : Barbara Cartland , author of romantic literature (* 1901 )
- May 21 : John Gielgud , British actor (born 1904 )
Erich Mielke , 1976
- May 21 : Erich Mielke , Minister for State Security of the GDR (* 1907 )
- May 22 : Ernst Dieter Lueg , German journalist (* 1930 )
- May 23 : Johannes Irmscher , German classical scholar (* 1920 )
- May 25 : Nicholas Clay , English actor (born 1946 )
- May 27 : Inga Abel , German actress (* 1946 )
- May 27 : Maurice Richard , Canadian ice hockey player (* 1921 )
- May 28 : Donald Watts Davies , physicist (* 1924 )
- May 28 : Vincentas Sladkevicius , Archbishop of Kaunas and Cardinal (* 1920 )
- May 29 : Dieter Ordelheide , German economist (* 1939 )
- May 30 : Jürgen von Woyski , German sculptor and painter (* 1929 )
- May 31 : Petar Mladenow , Bulgarian politician (* 1936 )
- May 31 : Tito Puente , jazz, salsa and mambo musician (* 1923 )
June
- June 2 : Svyatoslaw Nikolajewitsch Fjodorow , Russian eye surgeon, entrepreneur and politician (* 1927 )
- June 2 : Adolph Hofner , American country musician (* 1916 )
- June 3 : Merton H. Miller , American economist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1923 )
- June 3 : William E. Simon , American businessman and politician (born 1927 )
- June 4th : Paul Zoungrana , Archbishop of Ouagadougou and Cardinal (* 1917 )
- June 5 : Hushang Golschiri , Iranian writer (* 1937 )
- June 5th : Martin "Kleinti" Simon , German singer-songwriter (* 1966 )
- June 8 : Joachim von Elbe , lawyer and diplomat (* 1902 )
- June 8 : Norman Erbe , American politician (* 1919 )
- June 9 : Ernst Jandl , Austrian writer (* 1925 )
- June 9th : Buddy Jones , American jazz bassist (* 1924 )
- June 9 : George Segal , American artist (born 1924 )
- June 9 : Alfred Weidenmann , German author and director (* 1916 )
- June 10 : Hafiz al-Assad , President of Syria (* 1930 )
- June 11 : Réjane Cardinal , Canadian singer (* 1926 )
- June 12 : Walter Schulz , German philosopher (* 1912 )
- June 14 : Attilio Bertolucci , Italian poet, literary critic and translator (* 1911 )
- June 14 : Kurt Böwe , German actor (* 1929 )
- June 16 : Will Berthold , German writer and non-fiction author (* 1924 )
- June 16 : Kōjun , Empress of Japan (Nagako) (* 1903 )
- June 18 : Luis Cardei , Argentine tango singer (* 1944 )
- June 19 : Christiane Herzog , journalist and wife of Federal President Roman Herzog (* 1936 )
- June 19 : Takeshita Noboru , Japanese politician (* 1924 )
- June 20 : Karl Mickel , German poet, playwright and essayist (* 1935 )
- June 20 : Manfred Strahl , German journalist, editor and writer (* 1940 )
- June 20 : Max Danz , German sports official (* 1908 )
- June 21 : Alan Hovhaness , American composer (* 1911 )
- June 22nd : Günther Sabetzki , President of the German Ice Hockey Federation, IIHF President (* 1915 )
- June 23 : George Perlman , American violinist, composer and music teacher (* 1897 )
- June 23 : Jerome Richardson , American jazz saxophonist and flutist (* 1920 )
- June 24 : Rodrigo Alejandro Bueno , Argentine Cuarteto singer (* 1973 )
- June 24 : David Tomlinson , British actor (born 1917 )
- June 26 : Stig Engström , Swedish main suspect in the murder of Olof Palme (* 1934 )
- June 27 : Gerhard Pfeiffer , German chess player (* 1923 )
- June 27th : Pierre Pflimlin , French politician and member of the European Parliament (* 1907 )
- June 29 : Vittorio Gassman , Italian actor (* 1922 )
- June 29 : Rodney Nuckey , British racing driver (born 1929 )
- June 29 : Arnie Weinmeister , Canadian American football player (born 1923 )
July
- July 1st : Yvette Labrousse , Begum Aga Khan, wife of Aga Khan III. (* 1906 )
- July 1 : Torbjörn Lundquist , Swedish composer (* 1920 )
- July 1 : Walter Matthau , American actor (* 1920 )
- July 1 : Pierre Petit , French composer (* 1922 )
- July 2 : Joey Dunlop , motorcycle racer (* 1952 )
- July 3 : Kemal Sunal , Turkish actor (* 1944 )
- July 4th : Antonia Magdalena Arté , Dominican musician and music teacher (* 1914 )
- July 4th : Mausberg , American rapper (* 1979 )
- July 5 : Dorino Serafini , Italian Formula 1 racing driver (* 1909 )
- July 5 : Edgar Cardoso , Portuguese bridge construction engineer (* 1913 )
- July 6 : Władysław Szpilman , Polish pianist, composer and writer (* 1911 )
- July 7 : Dmitri Sawadski , Belarusian cameraman (* 1972 )
- July 7 : Ruth Werner , Soviet spy (* 1907 )
- July 9 : Herbert Hunger , Austrian Byzantinist (* 1914 )
- July 12 : Heinz Arnold , German politician (* 1920 )
- July 12th : Heinz Schleußer , German trade unionist and politician (* 1936 )
- July 13 : Jan Karski , Polish officer and courier of the Polish Home Army (* 1914 )
- July 13 : Ursula Langrock , German radio play speaker (* 1926 )
- July 15 : Paul Bühlmann , Swiss folk actor (* 1927 )
- July 15 : Juan Filloy , Argentine writer (* 1894 )
- July 15 : John Orlando Pastore , American politician (* 1907 )
- July 15 : Leo Hoegh , American politician (* 1908 )
- July 16 : William Foote Whyte , American sociologist (* 1914 )
- July 17th : Pascale Audret , French actress (* 1935 )
- July 20 : Constanze Engelbrecht , German actress (* 1950 )
- July 20 : Henning Schlüter , German actor (* 1927 )
- July 21 : Iain Hamilton , Scottish composer and music teacher (* 1922 )
- July 21 : Stanojlo Rajičić , Serbian composer (* 1910 )
- July 22nd : Claude Sautet , French screenwriter and film director (* 1924 )
- July 23 : Johannes Dyba , Bishop of Fulda from 1983 until his death (* 1929 )
- July 24th : Anatoli Wassiljewitsch Firsow , Russian ice hockey player (* 1941 )
- July 24 : Oscar Shumsky , American violinist and music teacher (* 1917 )
- July 25 : Rudi Faßnacht , German football coach (* 1934 )
- July 25 : Charlotte Schreiber-Just , German actress and radio play speaker (* 1914 )
- July 26 : Günther Hennerici , German entrepreneur and motorsport team boss (* 1924 )
- July 27th : Asep Wildan , Indonesian volcanologist and geologist
- July 28 : Abraham Pais , Dutch physicist (* 1918 )
- July 29 : Lothar Quinte , German avant-garde painter (* 1923 )
- July 30th : Werner Cyprys , German singer, composer, songwriter and music producer (* 1922 )
- July 30th : Hermann Gablenz , German motorcycle racer (* 1913 )
- July 31 : Wolfgang von Groote , German officer and military historian (* 1911 )
- July 31 : Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst , Dutch astrophysicist (* 1918 )
- July: Carlos Pizarro , Puerto Rican singer (* 1921 )
August
- August 1st : Karl Reinthaler , Mayor of the City of Saalfelden, Member of the State Parliament (* 1913 )
Alec Guinness , 1973
- August 5th : Alec Guinness , British actor (born 1914 )
- August 6 : Joan Trimble , Irish composer (born 1915 )
- August 7 : Samuel Ekpe Akpabot , Nigerian composer (* 1932 )
- August 8 : Günter Goetzendorff , German politician (* 1917 )
- August 9 : John Harsanyi , Hungarian-American economist (* 1920 )
- August 10 : Suzanne Danco , Belgian opera singer (* 1911 )
- August 10 : Walter E. Lautenbacher , photographer (* 1920 )
- August 11 : Otto Czarski , German voice actor (* 1920 )
- August 11 : Jean Papineau-Couture , Canadian composer (* 1916 )
- August 12 : William Bradley , British racing driver (* 1931 )
- August 12 : Max Grießer , Bavarian folk actor (* 1928 )
- August 12 : Loretta Young , American actress (born 1913 )
- August 13 : Ria Deeg , resistance fighter against National Socialism (* 1907 )
- August 13 : Paul Rohloff , German politician (* 1912 )
- August 13 : Fritz Winckel , German physicist and one of the pioneers of electronic music (* 1907 )
- August 14 : Winfried Steffani , German political scientist (* 1927 )
- August 15 : Fred Gebhardt , German politician (* 1928 )
- August 15 : Robert Swink , American film editor (* 1918 )
- August 16 : Sally Amato , American singer and actress (* 1917 )
- August 18 : Rudolf Aitzetmüller , Austrian Slavist (* 1923 )
- August 18 : Helmut Weiß , German writer (* 1913 )
- August 20 : Henry Austin , English tennis player (* 1906 )
- August 20 : Silvio Francesco , Italian singer, clarinetist and actor (* 1927 )
- August 20 : Siegfried Wünsche , German motorcycle racer (* 1916 )
- August 21 : Ellen Schlüchter , German legal scholar (* 1938 )
- August 21 : Bubi Scholz , German boxer (* 1930 )
- August 23 : Max Midinet , German ballet dancer (* 1948 )
- August 24th : Andy Hug , Swiss martial artist and multiple European and world champion in kickboxing (* 1964 )
Carl Barks , 1994
- August 25 : Carl Barks , American painter, cartoonist and copywriter (* 1901 )
- August 25 : Jack Nitzsche , American pianist and composer (* 1937 )
- August 26 : Kurt Dehn , Palatinate folk musician (* 1920 )
- August 26 : Lynden O. Pindling , Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 1967 to 1992 (born 1930 )
- August 27 : Edmund Karp , Estonian football, basketball and volleyball player (* 1913 )
- August 30th : Addi Furler , German sports journalist (* 1933 )
- August 31 : Joan Hartigan Bathurst , Australian tennis player (born 1912 )
- August 31 : Klaus Miedel , German actor and voice actor (* 1915 )
September
- September 1 : Ernst Ohst , German painter, graphic artist and caricaturist (* 1914 )
- September 4th : Augusto Vargas Alzamora , Archbishop of Lima and Cardinal (* 1922 )
- September 4 : Daisy Spies , dancer and choreographer (* 1905 )
- September 5 : George Musso , American football player (born 1910 )
- September 5 : Gian Luigi Polidoro , Italian film director (* 1928 )
- September 6 : Goede Gendrich , German forester and author (* 1912 )
- September 7th : Dietrich Knothe , German conductor (* 1929 )
- September 9 : Herbert Friedman , American physicist (* 1916 )
- September 9 : Rita-Maria Nowotny , German actress (* 1925 )
- September 9 : Veerasamy Ringadoo , Mauritanian President (* 1920 )
- September 12 : Konrad Kujau , forger of Hitler's diaries (* 1938 )
- September 13 : Rolf Kauka , German comic artist and publisher (father of Fix and Foxi ) (* 1917 )
- September 16 : Tikhon Alexandrowitsch Rabotnow , Russian geobotanist and university professor (* 1904 )
- September 19 : Karl Robatsch , Austrian chess player and botanist (* 1929 )
- September 20 : German Stepanowitsch Titow , Soviet cosmonaut (* 1935 )
- September 21 : Bengt Hambraeus , Swedish composer, organist and musicologist (* 1928 )
- September 22 : Jehuda Amichai , German-Israeli poet (* 1924 )
- September 22nd : Vincenzo Fagiolo , Archbishop of Chieti and Cardinal (* 1918 )
- September 22 : Hans Lutz Merkle , German manager (* 1913 )
- September 23 : Carl Rowan , American journalist and author (* 1925 )
- September 24th : Basil Bernstein , British sociologist (* 1924 )
- September 25 : Tommy Reilly , Canadian musician (* 1919 )
- September 26 : Baden Powell de Aquino , Brazilian musician (* 1937 )
- September 26 : Robert Lax , American author, poet and publicist (* 1915 )
- September 26 : Richard Mulligan , American actor (born 1932 )
- September 26th : Max Waldmeier , Swiss astronomer and solar researcher (* 1912 )
- September 28 : Pote Sarasin , Prime Minister of Thailand and Secretary General of SEATO (* 1905 )
- September 28 : Pierre Trudeau , Canadian politician (Prime Minister) (* 1919 )
October
- October 1 : Rosie Douglas , Dominican politician (* 1941 )
- October 3 : Wojciech Has , Polish film director (* 1925 )
- October 4 : Egano Righi-Lambertini , Cardinal (* 1906 )
- October 4 : Michael Smith , Canadian chemist (* 1932 )
- October 5 : Frans Ludo Verbeeck , Belgian composer and conductor (* 1926 )
- October 5 : Cătălin Hâldan , Romanian football player (* 1976 )
- October 6 : Richard Farnsworth , American actor (* 1920 )
- October 8 : Karlgeorg Hoefer , German typographer and calligrapher (* 1914 )
- October 8 : Francesco Pennisi , Italian composer (* 1934 )
- October 9 : Ladislav Čepelák , Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator (* 1924 )
- October 10 : Sirimavo Bandaranaike , Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (* 1916 )
- October 10 : Ferenc Farkas , Hungarian composer (* 1905 )
- October 10 : Klaus Winter , judge (* 1936 )
- October 11 : Pietro Palazzini , Cardinal (* 1912 )
- October 13 : Gus Hall , American politician (* 1910 )
- October 13 : Jean Peters , American actress (* 1926 )
- October 14 : Rudolf Schenda , folklorist and narrative researcher (* 1930 )
- October 15 : Konrad Bloch , German biochemist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1912 )
- October 15 : Leo Marini , Argentine singer (* 1920 )
- October 16 : Eugen Brixel , Austrian composer for brass music (* 1939 )
- October 16 : Mel Carnahan , American politician (* 1934 )
- October 17 : Leo Nomellini , American football player (born 1924 )
- October 19 : Gustav Kilian , German racing cyclist (* 1907 )
- October 23 : Hans Ertl , mountaineer, cameraman, war correspondent, director (* 1908 )
- October 25 : Jeanne Lee , American jazz singer (* 1939 )
- October 26 : Muriel Evans , American actress (born 1910 )
- October 27 : Lída Baarová , Czech actress and lover of Joseph Goebbels (* 1914 )
- October 27 : Walter Berry , Austrian singer (* 1929 )
- October 27 : Brigitte Schröder , wife of Gerhard Schröder (* 1917 )
- October 28 : Josef Felder , German politician (* 1900 )
- October 28 : Carlos Guastavino , Argentine composer (* 1912 )
- October 29 : Billy Boyo , Jamaican child star deejay of the early reggae dance hall (* 1969 )
- October 29 : Jacqueline Brumaire , French soprano (* 1921 )
- October 30 : Steve Allen , American comedian and musician (* 1921 )
November
- November 1 : George Armstrong , English football player and coach (* 1944 )
- November 1 : Steven Runciman , British historian (* 1903 )
- November 1 : Florian Vischer , Swiss architect (* 1919 )
- November 2 : Fritz Astl , Austrian politician (* 1944 )
- November 5 : Etienne Aigner , Hungarian fashion designer (* 1904 )
- November 5 : Jimmie Davis , American country singer, songwriter and Governor of Louisiana (* 1899 )
- November 5 : Roger Peyrefitte , French writer and diplomat (* 1907 )
- November 7th : Julius Hatry , German rocket pioneer and aircraft designer (* 1906 )
- November 7th : Klaus Koch , German jazz musician (* 1936 )
- November 7th : Walter Kremser , German forest scientist (* 1909 )
- November 7th : Ingrid von Schweden , Danish co-regent of Swedish origin (* 1910 )
- November 8 : Karl Fellinger , Austrian doctor (* 1904 )
- November 8 : Richard Edwin Morrissey , British jazz musician (* 1940 )
- November 8 : Józef Pińkowski , Polish politician and Prime Minister of Poland from 1980 to 1981 (* 1929 )
- November 9 : Sherwood Johnston , American racing car driver (born 1927 )
- November 10 : Jacques Chaban-Delmas , French politician (* 1915 )
- November 11 : Peter Cabus , Belgian composer (* 1923 )
- November 12 : Leah Rabin , Israeli politician and wife of Yitzhak Rabin (* 1928 )
- November 15 : Max Hermann Archimowitz , German politician (* 1920 )
- November 15 : Rinaldo Martino , Argentine-Italian football player (* 1921 )
- November 15 : Piero Pasinati , Italian football player and coach (* 1910 )
- November 16 : Russ Conway , British pianist, composer and singer (* 1925 )
- November 16 : Josef Ertl , German politician (* 1925 )
- November 16 : Kåre Fuglesang , Norwegian violinist and music teacher (* 1921 )
- November 16 : Ahmet Kaya , Turkish protest musician (* 1957 )
- November 17th : Louis Néel , French physicist (* 1904 )
- November 18 : Ibo Bekirovic , German singer (* 1961 )
- November 19 : George Cosmas Adyebo , Ugandan politician (* 1947 )
- November 19 : Ruth Mönch , German TV presenter (* 1926 )
- November 20 : Mike Muuss , author of the freeware network program Ping (* 1958 )
- November 21 : Harald Leipnitz , German actor (* 1926 )
- November 21 : Emil Zátopek , Czech athlete (* 1922 )
- November 22nd : Fritz Fend , German automobile designer (* approx. 1920 )
- November 22nd : Fernand Hoffmann , Luxembourg educator, writer and linguist (* 1929 )
- November 22nd : Théodore Monod , Africa explorer (* 1902 )
- November 22nd : Kenneth Peacock , Canadian composer, musicologist and pianist (* 1922 )
- November 22 : Hans Schaefer , German physician and co-founder of the Max Planck Society (* 1906 )
- November 23 : Bienvenido Fabián , Dominican composer, pianist and singer (* 1920 )
- November 23 : Aljoscha Rompe , German-Swiss punk musician (* 1947 )
- November 25th : Erich Ebert , German actor, voice actor, voice writer and dialogue director (* 1922 )
- November 25 : Gerd Vespermann , German actor (* 1926 )
- November 27 : Eugen Helmlé , German writer and literary translator (* 1927 )
- November 28 : Carol Bolt , Canadian playwright (* 1941 )
- November 28 : Liane Haid , Austrian actress and singer (* 1895 )
- November 29 : Lou Groza , American football player (born 1924 )
- November 30th : Poul Bjørndahl Astrup , Danish physiologist and laboratory chemist (* 1915 )
- November 30 : Jānis Kalniņš , Canadian composer (* 1904 )
- November 30th : Joachim Wolff , German actor and speaker (* 1920 )
December
- December 2 : Napoleon Seyfarth , German author and AIDS activist (* 1953 )
- December 3 : Gwendolyn Brooks , American writer (* 1917 )
- December 3 : Paul Deitenbeck , German pastor and writer (* 1912 )
- December 4 : Hans Carl Artmann , Austrian poet (* 1921 )
- December 4 : Walter Krause , German politician (* 1912 )
- December 6 : Enrique Anderson Imbert , Argentine literary critic and writer (* 1910 )
- December 6 : Werner Klemperer , German-American actor and musician (* 1920 )
- December 6 : Aziz Mian , Pakistani singer (* 1942 )
- December 6th : Werner Vick , German handball player and coach (* 1920 )
- December 7 : Stanley Osborne , Canadian clergyman, music teacher, author, hymnologist and composer (* 1907 )
- December 8 : Rolf Heyne , German publisher (* 1928 )
- December 8 : Ionatana Ionatana , Tuvaluan politician (* 1938 )
- December 10 : José Pinto de Carvalho Santos Águas , Portuguese football player (* 1930 )
- December 11 : Johannes Virolainen , Finnish politician (* 1914 )
- December 12 : Götz Friedrich , German theater director (* 1930 )
- December 12th : Gerhard Neumann , German archaeologist (* 1931 )
- December 14th : Myroslaw Lyubatschiwski , Archbishop of Philadelphia and Lviv and Cardinal (* 1914 )
- December 14th : Yayo el Indio , Puerto Rican singer (* 1920 )
- December 15 : Jacques Goddet , French sports journalist (* 1905 )
- December 15 : Helen Kotas Hirsch , American horn player (* 1916)
- December 16 : William H. Hill , American composer and music teacher (* 1930 )
- December 16 : Heinz Maier-Leibnitz , German physicist and research politician (* 1911 )
- December 17th : Heinrich Bednar , Austrian table tennis player (* 1922 )
- December 17th : Gérard Blain , French actor, film director and screenwriter (* 1930 )
- December 17th : Joan Maxwell , Canadian singer and music teacher (* 1930 )
- December 18 : Kirsty MacColl , British singer and songwriter (born 1959 )
- December 19 : Milton Hinton , American jazz musician (born 1910 )
- December 19 : Koharu Kisaragi , Japanese playwright and theater director (* 1956 )
- December 19 : John Lindsay , American politician (* 1921 )
- December 19 : Pops Staples , American gospel and R&B musician (born 1914 )
- December 22nd : Herman Feshbach , American physicist (* 1917 )
- December 23 : Victor Borge , Danish pianist and comedian (* 1909 )
- December 23 : Peter Kafka , German physicist (* 1933 )
- December 24th : John Cooper , British car designer (* 1923 )
- December 25 : Willard Van Orman Quine , American philosopher (* 1908 )
- December 26 : Jason Robards , American actor (born 1922 )
- December 27 : Erwin Ammann , German politician (* 1916 )
- December 27 : Nikolai von Michalewsky , German writer (* 1931 )
- December 28 : Eduard Adorno , German politician (* 1920 )
- December 30th : Alfred Burger , American chemist (* 1905 )
- December 31 : Kenneth L. Pike , American linguist and anthropologist (born 1912 )
Day unknown
- Helmut Berthold , German field handball player (* 1911 )
- Martin Canin , American painter (* 1927 )
- Ahmad Khayami , pioneer of the Iranian automotive industry (* 1924 )
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : Schores Iwanowitsch Alfjorow , Herbert Kroemer and Jack S. Kilby
- Chemistry : Alan J. Heeger , Alan G. MacDiarmid, and Hideki Shirakawa
- Medicine : Arvid Carlsson , Paul Greengard and Eric R. Kandel
- Literature : Gao Xingjian
- Nobel Peace Prize : Kim Dae Jung
- Economics : James Heckman and Daniel McFadden
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