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2000 (MM) was a century leap year starting
on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar.
It was the last year of the 2nd millennium and the 20th century. In popular sentiment, however,
the year 2000 is regarded as the first year of the 3rd millennium and 21st century. Contents · 1Events o 1.3March o 1.4April o 1.5May o 1.6June o 1.7July · 2Births · 3Deaths o 3.3March o 3.4April o 3.5May o 3.6June o 3.7July Events[change | change source] January[change | change source] ·
January 1 - To most people, it was the
first day of the 21st century and 3rd millennium. However, there are some
people who argue that both distinctions happened a year later, on January 1,
2001. ·
January 310 Israel and Syria hold inconclusive peace talks. ·
January 4 Alan Greenspan is nominated for a
fourth term as U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman. ·
January 58 The 2000 al-Qaeda Summit of several
high-level al-Qaeda members
(including 2 9/11 American Airlines hijackers)
is held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ·
January 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 11 The armed wing of
the Islamic
Salvation Front concludes its negotiations with the
government for an amnesty and
disbands in Algeria ·
January 11 The trawler Solway
Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man.[1] ·
January 12 9/11 hijackers Mohammed
Atta and Ziad Jarrah read
their wills in the Martyrdom Video. ·
January 14 A United Nations tribunal sentences
5 Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for
the 1993 killing of over 100 Bosnian Muslims in a Bosnian village.[2] ·
January 14 The Dow Jones
Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98 (at the peak of
the Dot-com
bubble). ·
January 16 In Sacramento,
California, a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven
into the State Capitol building, killing the driver. ·
January 18 The Tagish
Lake meteorite hits the Earth. ·
January 24 God's Army, a Karen militia
group led by twins Johnny
and Luther Htoo, takes 700 hostages at a Thai hospital near the Burmese border. ·
January 26 The rap-metal band Rage Against the
Machine plays in front of Wall Street, prompting an early closing of
trading due to the crowds. ·
January 30 Super Bowl XXXIV:
The St. Louis Rams win
the NFL
Championship for the first time since 1951, defeating the Tennessee Titans 2316. ·
January 30 Kenya
Airways Flight 431 crashes off the coast of Cτte d'Ivoire into
the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169. ·
January 31 Alaska
Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88. ·
January 31 Dr. Harold Shipman is found guilty of
murdering 15 patients between 1995 and 1998. He is sentenced to life
imprisonment. February[change | change source] ·
February 4 German extortionist Klaus-Peter
Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and
extortion, in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines. ·
February 6 Tarja Halonen is elected the first
female president of Finland. ·
February 7 Stipe Mesic is
elected president of Croatia. ·
February 9 Torrential rains in Africa
lead to the worst
flooding in Mozambique in 50 years, which lasts
until March and kills 800 people. ·
February 11 A blast from an improvised
explosive device in front of a Barclay's
Bank, across from the New York Stock
Exchange on Wall Street, wounds dozens but kills none. ·
February 13 The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the
death of its creator, Charles Schulz. ·
February 21 UNESCO holds the inaugural celebration
of International Mother Language Day. March[change | change source] ·
March 1 The Constitution
of Finland is rewritten. ·
March 2 Hans Blix assumes the position of
Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC. ·
March 7 George W. Bush and Al Gore emerge victorious in the
Republican and Democratic caucuses and primaries of the United
States presidential election. ·
March 8 Tokyo
train disaster: A sideswipe collision of 2 Tokyo Metro trains kills 5 people. ·
March 9 The FBI arrests art forgery suspect Ely Sakhai in New York City. ·
March 9 Nupedia, predecessor to Wikipedia, is created. ·
March 10 The NASDAQ Composite Index reaches an
all-time high of 5,048.[3] ·
March 12 Pope John Paul II apologises for
the wrongdoings by members of the Roman Catholic
Church throughout the ages. ·
March 18 Republic of China presidential election, 2000: Chen Shui-bian is elected President
of the Republic of China (Taiwan); the Democratic
Progressive Party ends Kuomintang rule for the first time. ·
March 20 Jamil
Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap
Brown), a former Black Panther,
is captured after a gun battle in Atlanta, Georgia that
leaves a sheriff's deputy dead. ·
March 21 Pope John Paul II begins
the first official visit by a Roman Catholic pontiff to Israel. ·
March 21 The U.S. Supreme Court rules
that the government lacks authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug,
throwing out the Bill
Clinton administration's main anti-smoking initiative. ·
March 26 Vladimir Putin is elected President
of Russia. ·
March 27 The Phillips
explosion of 2000 kills 1 and injured 71 in Pasadena, Texas. ·
March 31 Myra
Hindley loses a High
Court appeal against her life
imprisonment sentence. April[change | change source] ·
April 3 United
States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have
violated United States antitrust laws
by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. ·
April 16 Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, Sultan of Selangor, dies after a reign of 55 years. He
was the longest-reigning monarch in the world since the death of
Prince Franz
Joseph II of Liechtenstein. ·
April 17 Tuanku
Syed Sirajuddin becomes Raja of Perlis. ·
April 22 Brazil officially celebrates its 500th
anniversary, with protests, especially from native and black populations. ·
April 22 In a predawn raid, federal
agents seize 6-year old Eliαn
Gonzαlez from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington, DC, ending one of the most
publicized custody battles in U.S. history. ·
April 25 The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples. ·
April 28 Richard
Baumhammers begins a 2-hour racially motivated shooting spree
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, leaving 5 dead and 1
paralyzed. May[change | change source] ·
May 3 A rare conjunction of 7
celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, planets MercurySaturn) occurs
on the New Moon. ·
May 3 In San Antonio, Texas, computer pioneer Datapoint files
for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. ·
May 4 After originating in The
Philippines, the ILOVEYOU computer
virus spreads quickly throughout the world. ·
May 11 The billionth living person
in India is born.[4][5] ·
May 11 Effective date of Canada's
first modern-day treaty The Nisga'a Final
Agreement ·
May 12 The Tate Modern Gallery
opens in London. ·
May 13 A fireworks factory disaster in Enschede Netherlands, kills 23. ·
May 16 The Grand
National Assembly of Turkey elects Ahmet Necdet Sezer as
the tenth President of Turkey. ·
May 17 A bomb in Glorietta
Mall in Makati City, Philippines injures 13. ·
May 20 Chinese (ROC) president Chen Shui-bian makes the Four
Noes and One Without pledge to Taiwan. ·
May 25 Israel withdraws IDF forces from
southern Lebanon after 22
years. ·
May 28 - American actor Cameron Boyce
is born June[change | change source] ·
June 5 405 The
Movie, the first short movie widely distributed on the Internet, is released. ·
June 13 South Korean President Kim Dae Jung visits North Korea to
participate in the first NorthSouth presidential summit. ·
June 17 A centennial earthquake (6.5
on Richter scale)
hits Iceland on its national day. ·
June 21 Section 28,
a law preventing the promotion of homosexuality, is repealed by the Scottish Parliament. ·
June 26 A preliminary draft of genomes, as part of the Human Genome Project,
is finished. ·
June 28 Elian
Gonzalez returns to Cuba with his father, Juan Miguel
Gonzalez, ending a protracted custody battle. ·
June 30 At the Roskilde
Festival near Copenhagen, Denmark, 9 die and 26 are injured on a set
while the rock group Pearl Jam performs. July[change | change source] ·
July 2 France beats Italy 21
to win Euro 2000 with a golden goal. ·
July 2 Vicente Fox is elected President
of Mexico, as candidate of the rightist PAN
(National Action Party), ending 71 years of PRI (Institutional Revolutionary
Party) rule. ·
July 10 In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline
explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline. ·
July 10 Bashar al-Assad is
confirmed as Syria's leader in a national referendum. ·
July 1125 Israel's prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO head Yasser Arafat meet at Camp David, but
fail to reach an agreement. ·
July 14 A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille
Day event, causes a geomagnetic
storm on Earth. ·
July 18 Alex Salmond resigns as the leader of
the Scottish National
Party. ·
July 18 Sussex police launch a murder
investigation after the body of a girl found near Pulborough is
confirmed to be that of Sarah Payne,
who was reported missing on July 1. ·
July 2123 26th G8 summit; issues include AIDS, the
'digital divide', and halving world poverty by 2015. ·
July 22 News
of the World urges its readers to sign a petition
for Sarah's Law,
new legislation in response to the murder of Sarah Payne, which would give
parents the right to know whether a convicted paedophile was living in their area. ·
July 25 Air
France Flight 4590, a Concorde aircraft, crashes into a hotel
in Gonesse just
after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 4 in the
hotel. ·
July 30 Venezuela's president Hugo Chαvez is reelected with 59% of
the vote. ·
July 31 August 3 The Republican National Convention in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania nominates George W. Bush for U.S. president
and Dick Cheney for
vice president. August[change | change source] ·
August 3 Rioting erupts on the Paulsgrove estate
in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, after more than 100 people besiege
the home of a block of flats allegedly housing a convicted paedophile. This is the latest vigilante
violence against suspected sex offenders since the beginning of the
"naming and shaming" anti-paedophile campaign by the tabloid newspaper News
of the World. ·
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 K-141 Kursk sinks
in the Barents Sea,
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. ·
August 1417 The Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominates U.S. Vice
President Al Gore for
president and Senator Joe Lieberman for vice president. ·
August 23 John
Anthony Kaiser a Roman Catholic priest was murdered in
Morendat, Kenya. ·
August 27 The Ostankino
Tower fire in Moscow kills 3. September[change | change source] ·
September 5 Tuvalu joins the United Nations. ·
September 5 The Haverstraw-Ossining
Ferry makes its maiden voyage. ·
September 6 In Paragould, Arkansas, Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart is stillborn to Scott Stewart and Lisa
Bartlett. Breanna Lynn's stillbirth is notable for being the first stillbirth
to be resolved by means of the Kleihauer-Betke
test. ·
September 6 The last wholly Swedish-owned arms
manufacturer, Bofors,
is sold to American arms manufacturer United
Defense. ·
September 68 World leaders attend the Millennium
Summit at UN Headquarters. ·
September 714 The UK fuel
protests take place, with refineries blockaded, and supply to
the country's network of petrol stations halted. ·
September 8 Albania officially joins the World Trade
Organization. ·
September 14 Microsoft releases Windows Me. ·
September 15 October 1 The 2000 Summer Olympics are
held in Sydney, Australia. ·
September 16 Ukrainian journalist Georgiy
Gongadze is last seen alive; this day is taken as the
commemoration date of his death. ·
September 16 Peru's president Alberto Fujimori calls
for new elections in which he will not run. ·
September 26 The Greek ferry Express
Samina sinks off the coast of the island of Paros; 80 out of more than 500 passengers
die in one of Greece's worst sea disasters. ·
September 26 Anti-globalization protests
in Prague (some 15,000 protesters) turn
violent during the IMF and World Bank summits. ·
September 28 Israeli opposition
leader Ariel Sharon visits
the Temple Mount,
protected by a several-hundred-strong Israeli police force. Palestinian riots
erupt, leading to a full-fledged armed uprising (called the Al-Aqsa
Intifada by sympathizers and the Oslo War by
opponents). ·
September 29 The Long
Kesh prison in Northern Ireland is closed. October[change | change source] ·
October 1 The 2000 Summer Olympics close
in Sydney, Australia. ·
October 5 President Slobodan
Miloević leaves office after widespread demonstrations
throughout Serbia. ·
October 6 The last Mini is produced in Longbridge. ·
October 11 250 million gallons of
coal sludge spill in Martin County,
Kentucky (considered a greater environmental disaster than
the Exxon Valdez oil
spill). ·
October 12 In Aden, Yemen, the USS
Cole is badly damaged by
two 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 21 Fifteen Arab leaders convene in Cairo, Egypt, for their first summit in 4 years;
the Libyan delegation walks out, angry over
signs the summit will stop short of calling for breaking ties with Israel. ·
October 22 The Mainichi
Shinbun newspaper exposes Japanese archeologist Shinichi
Fujimura as a fraud; Japanese archaeologists had based their
treatises on his findings. ·
October 23 Madeleine Albright holds
talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. ·
October 26 Pakistani authorities announce that
their police have found an apparently ancient mummy of a Persian
princess in the province of Balochistan. Iran, Pakistan and the Taliban all claim the mummy until
Pakistan announces it is a forgery on April 17, 2001. ·
October 27 Pacific
Islands Forum (PIF). ·
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[change | change source] ·
November Iraq
disarmament crisis: Iraq rejects new U.N. Security Council
weapons inspections proposals. ·
November 2 The first resident crew
enters the International
Space Station. ·
November 3 Widespread flooding occurs
throughout England and Wales after days of heavy rain. ·
November 7 United
States presidential election, 2000: Republican candidate
Texas Governor George W. Bush defeats Democratic Vice
President Al Gore in the
closest election in history, but the final outcome is not known for over a
month because of disputed votes in Florida. ·
November 7 In London, a criminal gang raids
the Millennium Dome to steal The Millennium
Star diamond, but police surveillance catches them in the
act. ·
November 7 Hillary Rodham
Clinton is elected to the United States Senate,
becoming the first First
Lady of the United States to win public office. ·
November 11 Kaprun
disaster, Austria: A cable car
fire in an Alpine tunnel kills 155 skiers and snowboarders. ·
November 15 A new Indian state
called Jharkhand is
formed, carving out the South Chhota
Nagpur area from Bihar in India. ·
November 16 Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting
U.S. president to visit Vietnam. ·
November 17 A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions
of SIT of
damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years. ·
November 17 Alberto Fujimori is
removed from office as president of Peru. ·
November 25 The Rugby League World
Cup in England is ended, with Australia winning 4012 over the New Zealand
Kiwis. ·
November 27 Jean Chrιtien is re-elected as Prime Minister
of Canada, as the Liberal Party increases its majority in the
House of Commons. ·
November 28 Ukrainian politician Oleksander
Moroz touches off the Cassette
Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the
murder of journalist Georgiy
Gongadze. December[change | change source] ·
December 1 Vicente Fox takes office as President of Mexico. ·
December 13 Bush v.
Gore: The U.S. Supreme Court stops
the Florida presidential recount,
effectively giving the state, and the Presidency, to George W. Bush. ·
December 13 The Texas 7 escape
from their prison unit in Kenedy,
Texas, and start a crime spree. ·
December 15 The third and final
reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut
down and the station is shut down completely. ·
December 24 The Texas 7 rob
a sports store in Irving, Texas; police officer Aubrey
Hawkins is shot dead. ·
December 24 Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombings: 18
people are killed in multiple Islamist bomb attacks on churches
across Indonesia. ·
December 25 A shopping center fire
at Luoyang, Henan, China kills 309. ·
December 28 U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces
it is going out of business after 128 years. ·
December 30 Rizal
Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines, within a span of a few hours,
killing 22 and injuring about 100. ·
December 31 The Millennium Dome closes
its doors one year to the day of its opening. ·
December 31 Strictly speaking, it was
the last day of the 2nd millennium and 20th century in the Gregorian calendar,
but according to Popular Culture, the last day of these two distinctions was
December 31, 1999. Births[change | change source] ·
January 8 Noah Cyrus, American actress ·
June 1 Willow Shields, American actress ·
November 20 Connie Talbot, English singer Deaths[change | change source] Main article: Deaths
in 2000 January[change | change source] ·
January 2 Patrick O'Brian,
English writer (b. 1914) ·
January 7 Makhmud
Esambayev, Chechen dancer (b. 1924) ·
January 15 eljko
Ranatović, Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (b. 1952) ·
January 18 Frances
Drake, American actress (b. 1912) ·
January 19 Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of
Italy (b. 1934) ·
January 19 Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (b. 1913) ·
January 26 Don Budge,
American tennis champion (b. 1915) ·
January 26 Don Ralke,
American music arranger (b. 1920) February[change | change source] ·
February 5 Claude
Autant-Lara, French movie director (b. 1901) ·
February 5 Ward
Cornell, Canadian radio/TV broadcaster & educator (b. 1924) ·
February 7 Doug Henning, Canadian magician (b. 1947) ·
February 7 Big Pun, American rapper (b. 1971) ·
February 9 Beau Jack,
American boxer (b. 1921) ·
February 10 Jim Varney, American actor noted for his
character, Ernest P. Worrell.
(b. 1949) ·
February 12 Tom Landry, American football coach
(b. 1924) ·
February 12 Charles M. Schulz,
American comic strip artist (Peanuts) (b. 1922) ·
February 13 Anders
Aalborg, Canadian politician (b. 1914) ·
February 19 Friedensreich
Hundertwasser, artist (b. 1928) ·
February 23 Sir Stanley Matthews,
English footballer (b. 1915) ·
February 23 Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957) March[change | change source] ·
March 3 Toni
Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (b. 1904) ·
March 7 Charles
Gray, English actor (b. 1928) ·
March 11 Alfred
Schwarzmann, German Olympic gymnast (b. 1912) ·
March 27 Ian Dury,
English singer, songwriter (b. 1942) ·
March 28 Anthony Powell, British writer (b. 1905) April[change | change source] ·
April 3 Terence
McKenna, Writer, Philosopher, Ethnobotanist and Shaman (b. 1946) ·
April 4 Derek
Allhusen, British equestrian (b. 1914) ·
April 5 Lee Petty,
American race car driver (b. 1914) ·
April 6 Habib Bourguiba,
Tunisian politician, 1st President of Tunisia (b. 1903) ·
April 11 Diana
Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945) ·
April 14 Phil Katz,
American computer programmer (b. 1962) ·
April 15 Edward
Gorey, American writer and illustrator (b. 1925) ·
April 25 David
Merrick, American stage producer (b. 1911) ·
April 29 Phạm
Văn Đồng, Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister
of Vietnam (b. 1906) May[change | change source] ·
May 1 Steve Reeves, American actor and bodybuilder
(b. 1926) ·
May 3 John
Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop
of New York (b. 1920) ·
May 7 Douglas Fairbanks,
Jr., American actor (b. 1909) ·
May 10 Craig
Stevens, American actor (b. 1918) ·
May 11 Renι Muρoz,
Cuban actor, screenwriter of telenovelas and the cinema of Mexico (b. 1938) ·
May 13 Tomomi Tsuruta, Japanese professional
wrestler, better known as Jumbo Tsuruta (b. 1951) ·
May 14 Keizō Obuchi, Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1937) ·
May 20 Edward
Bernds, American director (b. 1905) ·
May 21 Dame Barbara
Cartland, English novelist (b. 1901) ·
May 21 Sir John Gielgud, English actor (b. 1904) ·
May 25 Francis
Lederer, American actor (b. 1899) ·
May 27 Maurice Richard,
Canadian hockey player (b. 1921) ·
May 27 Kazimierz
Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and Home Army's
intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912) ·
May 30 Doris Hare,
English actress, well known for her role in the 1970s comedy, On the Buses (b. 1905) ·
May 31 Tito Puente, American jazz musician
(b. 1923) June[change | change source] ·
June 10 Hafez al-Assad, President
of Syria (b. 1930) ·
June 10 Frank
Patterson, Irish tenor (b. 1938) ·
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 21 Alan
Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911) ·
June 24 David Tomlinson,
English actor (b. 1917) ·
June 29 Vittorio Gassman,
Italian actor (b. 1922) July[change | change source] ·
July 1 Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920) ·
July 7 James
C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (b. 1921) ·
July 8 FM-2030, Transhumanist philosopher (b. 1930) ·
July 10 Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative
member (b. 1909) ·
July 10 Denis
O'Conor Don, 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 and recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War II (b. 1908) ·
July 28 Abraham
Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (b. 1918) ·
July 29 Renι
Favaloro, Argentinian cardiologist who created the technique for
coronary bypass surgery (b. 1923) August[change | change source] ·
August 5 Sir Alec Guinness, English actor and writer
(b. 1914) ·
August 5 Otto
Buchsbaum, writer and ecological activist (b. 1920) ·
August 6 Sir Robin Day,
British political broadcaster (b. 1923) ·
August 9 John
Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1920) ·
August 12 Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913) ·
August 12 Dave
Edwards, American musician (b. 1941) ·
August 19 Bineshwar
Brahma, Bodo activist and leader (b. 1946) ·
August 21 Daniel
Lisulo, Zambian politician (b. 1930) ·
August 25 Carl Barks, American cartoonist (b. 1901) ·
August 26 Bunny
Austin, English tennis player (b. 1906) September[change | change source] ·
September 2 Elvera
Sanchez, American dancer (b. 1905) ·
September 2 Curt
Siodmak, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1902) ·
September 14 Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920) ·
September 16 Georgiy
Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969) ·
September 19 Anthony
Robert Klitz, British artist (b 1917) ·
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) ·
September 28 Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister
of Canada (b. 1919) October[change | change source] ·
October 4 Michael Smith,
English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1932) ·
October 6 Richard Farnsworth,
American actor (b. 1920) ·
October 8 Sheila
Holland (Sheila Coates, Charlotte Lamb, Sheila Lancaster,
Victoria Wolf, Laura Hardy), English writer (b. 1937) ·
October 9 Patrick
Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918) ·
October 13 Jean Peters,
American actress (b. 1926) ·
October 13 Tony Roper,
NASCAR driver (b. 1964) ·
October 15 Konrad Emil Bloch,
German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912) ·
October 18 Julie
London, American singer and actress (b. 1926) ·
October 21 Reginald
Kray, leading figure in organised crime in London, UK (b. 1933) ·
October 23 Rodney Anoa'i, American wrestler known as
Yokozuna (b. 1966) ·
October 27 Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929) ·
October 29 Andϊjar
Cedeρo, Dominican Major League
Baseball player for the Houston Astros (b. 1969) ·
October 30 Steve Allen, American comedian, composer,
talk show host, and writer (b. 1921) ·
October 31 Ring
Lardner, Jr., American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood
Ten (b. 1915) November[change | change source] ·
November 5 David
Brower, American environmental activist (b. 1912) ·
November 5 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) ·
November 7 Ingrid of Sweden,
Queen consort of Frederick IX of
Denmark (b. 1910) ·
November 11 Hugh
Paddick, British actor (b. 1915) ·
November 22 Sir Cyril
Astley Clarke, British physician, geneticist and entomologist,
former President of the Royal College of Physicians (b. 1907) ·
November 22 Christian
Marquand, French actor and director (b. 1927) December[change | change source] ·
December 2 Gail Fisher,
American actress (b. 1935) ·
December 3 Gwendolyn
Brooks, African American writer (b. 1917) ·
December 10 Paul Avery,
American journalist (b. 1934) ·
December 10 Marie
Windsor, American actress (b. 1919) ·
December 12 Gangodawila
Soma Thero, Sri Lankan Buddhist Monk (b. 1948) ·
December 19 Roebuck "Pops" Staples, patriarch
of The Staple Singers (b. 1914) ·
December 23 Billy Barty,
American actor (b. 1924) ·
December 23 Victor Borge, Danish-born comedian and
pianist (b. 1909) ·
December 26 Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922) ·
December 30 Julius
J. Epstein, American screenwriter (b. 1909) Nobel Prizes[change | change
source] ·
Chemistry Alan J.
Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid, Hideki
Shirakawa ·
Economics James
Heckman, Daniel
McFadden ·
Peace Kim Dae Jung ·
Physics Zhores
Ivanovich Alferov, Herbert
Kroemer, Jack Kilby ·
Physiology
or Medicine Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric R. Kandel Movies released[change | change
source] ·
The Gift ·
Traffic Books published[change | change
source] ·
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel Michael Chabon ·
The
Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman ·
The
Bear And The Dragon Tom Clancy ·
The
Beatles Anthology The Beatles ·
Blackberry
Wine Joanne
Harris ·
The
Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood ·
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace Lawrence Lessig ·
Daughter
Of Fortune Isabel Allende ·
Deadly
Decisions Kathy
Reichs ·
Deck The
Halls Mary Higgins Clark and Carol
Higgins Clark ·
Drowning
Ruth Christina
Schwarz ·
A
Friend of the Earth T. C. Boyle ·
Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling ·
Hayati,
My Life Miriam
Cooke ·
Her
Infinite Variety Louis
Auchincloss ·
The
Hiding Place Trezza
Azzopardi ·
The
House On Hope Street Danielle Steel ·
The
Human Stain Philip Roth ·
The
Indwelling Tim LaHaye and Jerry
B. Jenkins ·
Ingrid
Caven Jean-Jacques
Schuhl ·
The
Last Precinct Patricia Cornwell ·
Look to
Windward Iain M.
Banks ·
The Mark Tim LaHaye and Jerry
B. Jenkins ·
The
Measure Of A Man Sidney Poitier ·
Morgan's
Run Colleen McCullough ·
Omertΰ Mario Puzo ·
The Pagan Book of Halloween Gerina
Dunwich ·
The
Prayer of Jabez Bruce
Wilkinson & David Kopp ·
Parallel
journeys Eleanor
Ayer ·
Prodigal
Summer Barbara
Kingsolver ·
The
Prometheus Deception Robert Ludlum ·
Roses Are
Red James Patterson ·
Stardust and Shadows: Canadians in Early Hollywood Charles Foster ·
True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey ·
When I Lived in Modern Times Linda Grant ·
The Will Reed Arvin ·
Winter
Solstice Rosamunde Pilcher ·
Winter's
Heart Robert Jordan ·
Your
Magickal Cat Gerina
Dunwich Hit Songs[change | change source] ·
Oops!... I
Did It Again Britney Spears ·
Jumpin' Jumpin' Destiny's Child ·
Thong Song Sisqo ·
Doesn't
Really Matter Janet Jackson ·
I Think I'm in Love with You Jessica Simpson ·
You Sang
to Me Marc Anthony ·
My Way Limp Bizkit ·
Otherside Red Hot Chili
Peppers ·
All
the Small Things Blink-182 ·
The
Way You Love Me Faith Hill |
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