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Gregorian Year 2000
2000 (MM) was a century leap year starting
on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 2000th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 1000th and last year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year
of the 20th century,
and the 1st year of the 2000s decade. 2000 was designated as: ·
International
Year for the Culture of Peace[1] ·
World Mathematical Year[2] Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the
first year of the 21st century and
the 3rd millennium due
to a tendency of grouping the years according to decimal values, as if year zero were counted. According to
the Gregorian Calendar, these distinctions fall to the year 2001,
because the 1st century was retroactively said to start with year AD 1. Since the calendar does not have year
zero, its first millennium spanned from years 1 to 1000 inclusively and its
second millennium from years 1001 to 2000. (See more at Century and Millennium.) The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as
"Y2K" (the "Y" stands for "year", and the
"K" stands for "kilo" which means
"thousand").[3][4] The
year 2000 was the subject of Y2K concerns,
which are fears that computers would not shift from 1999 to 2000 correctly.
However, by the end of 1999, many companies had already converted to new, or
upgraded, existing software. Some even obtained Y2K certification.
As a result of massive effort, relatively few problems occurred. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] ·
January 2 – Massacre of twenty Copts by Muslim
villagers in Kosheh, Egypt. ·
January 6 – The last natural Pyrenean ibex is found dead, apparently
killed by a falling tree. ·
January 10 – America
Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the
largest-ever corporate merger). ·
The Dow Jones
Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98 (at the peak of
the Dot-com bubble).[5] ·
A United Nations tribunal sentences
five Bosnian Croats to
up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian
Muslims. ·
January 18 – The Tagish Lake
meteorite impacts the Earth. ·
January 30 – Kenya Airways
Flight 431 crashes off the coast of Ivory Coast into the Atlantic Ocean,
killing 169. ·
Alaska
Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific
Ocean, killing 88. ·
Dr. Harold Shipman is found guilty of
murdering 15 patients between 1995 and 1998 at Hyde, Greater
Manchester, and sentenced to life imprisonment. February[edit] ·
February 4 – German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is
jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion, in connection with the
sabotage of German railway lines. ·
February 9 – Torrential rains in Africa
lead to the worst flooding in Mozambique in 50 years, which lasts
until March and kills 800 people. ·
February 13 – The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the
death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz. ·
February 21 – UNESCO holds the inaugural celebration
of International
Mother Language Day. ·
February 29 – A rare century leap year date
occurs. Usually, century years are common years due to not being exactly
divisible by 400. 2000 is the first such year to have a February 29 since the
year 1600, making it only the second such occasion since the Lilian rule was
introduced in the late 16th century. The next such leap year will occur in
2400. March[edit] ·
March 4 – The PlayStation 2 is released in Japan.[importance?] ·
March 8 – Tokyo train
disaster: A sideswipe collision of two Tokyo Metro trains kills five people. ·
March 10 – The NASDAQ Composite Index reaches an
all-time high of 5,048.[6] Two
weeks later, the NASDAQ-100, S&P 500, and Wilshire 5000 reach their peaks prior
to the Dot-com bubble, ending a bull market run that lasted over 17 years. ·
March 12 ·
Pope John Paul II apologizes for
the wrongdoings by members of the Roman Catholic
Church throughout the ages. ·
A Zenit-3SL launch fails due to a software bug.[7] ·
March 13 – The United States dollar becomes
the official currency of Ecuador, replacing
the Ecuadorian sucre. April[edit] ·
April 3 – United
States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated
United States antitrust laws by
keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. ·
April 22 – In a predawn raid, federal
agents seize 6-year-old Elián González from
his relatives' home in Miami and fly him to
his Cuban father in Washington, D.C.,
ending one of the most publicized custody battles in U.S. history. ·
April 30 – Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in
the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sundaycelebrated
worldwide. May[edit] ·
May 1 – A new class of composite
material is fabricated, which has a combination of physical properties never
before seen in a natural or
man-made material.[8][9] ·
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. ·
The
7.6 Mw Central
Sulawesi earthquake affects Banggai, Indonesia, with a maximum Mercalli intensity
of VII (Very strong), leaving 46 dead and 264 injured. ·
May 5 – A rare conjunction of
seven celestial bodies (Sun,
Moon, planets Mercury–Saturn) occurs during the new moon.[10] ·
May 11 – The billionth living person in
India is born.[11][12] ·
May 13 ·
A fireworks
factory disaster in Enschede, Netherlands, kills 23. ·
Millennium Force opens at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio as the world's tallest
and fastest roller coaster. ·
May 24 – Real Madrid C.F. defeats Valencia CF 3–0 in the UEFA
Champions League Final at Stade de France to win their second
title between 1998 and 2002, and their eighth overall. June[edit] ·
June 4 – The 7.9 Mw Enggano
earthquake shakes southwestern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of VI (Strong), killing 103 people and
injuring 2,174–2,585. ·
June 5 – 405 The Movie, the first short film
widely distributed on the Internet, is released. ·
June 10 – July 2 – Belgium and the Netherlands jointly host the UEFA Euro 2000 football tournament,
which is won by France. ·
June 17 – A centennial earthquake (6.5
on the Richter scale)
hits Iceland on its national day. ·
June 26 – A preliminary draft of genomes, as part of the Human Genome Project,
is finished. It is announced at the White House by President Clinton.[13] ·
June 28 – Elián González returns
to Cuba with his father, Juan Miguel
González, ending a protracted custody battle. ·
June 30 – At the Roskilde Festival near Copenhagen, Denmark, nine die and 26 are
injured on a set while the rock group Pearl Jam performs. July[edit] ·
July 1 – The Řresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden is officially opened for
traffic. ·
July 2 – France defeats Italy 2–1
after extra time in the final of the European Championship, becoming the first
team to win the World Cup and European Championship consecutively. ·
July 7 – The draft assembly of Human Genome Project announced
at the White House by President Bill Clinton, Francis Collins, and Craig Venter. ·
July 10 – In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline
explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline. ·
July 14 – A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event,
causes a geomagnetic storm on
Earth. ·
July 25 – Air France Flight
4590, a Concorde aircraft,
crashes into a hotel in Gonesse just
after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109
aboard and 4 in the hotel. August[edit] ·
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 7 – DeviantART is launched. ·
August 8 – The Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is
raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor. ·
August 12 – The Russian submarine Kursk sinks in
the Barents Sea during
one of the largest Russian naval exercises since the 1991 dissolution of
the Soviet Union,
resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board. ·
Tsar Nicholas II and
his family are canonized by the synod of the Russian Orthodox
Church. ·
Dora the Explorer, one of Nickelodeon's most popular shows,
debuts. ·
August 23 – John Anthony Kaiser,
a Roman Catholic priest, is murdered in Morendat, Kenya. ·
August 24 – The Nintendo GameCube is
revealed. September[edit] ·
September 6 – The last wholly
Swedish-owned arms manufacturer, Bofors, is sold to American arms
manufacturer United Defense. ·
September 6–8 – World leaders attend the Millennium Summit at
U.N. Headquarters. ·
September 7–14 – Fuel
protests take place in the United Kingdom, with refineries
blockaded, and supply to the country's network of petrol stations halted. ·
September 10 – Operation Barras: A British military
operation to free five soldiers from the Royal Irish
Regiment that were held captive for over two weeks during
the Sierra Leone Civil
War, all of which were rescued. ·
September 13 – Steve Jobs introduces the public beta of Mac OS X for US$29.95.[14] ·
September 15 – October 1 – The 2000 Summer Olympics,
held in Sydney, Australia, is the last Olympic Games of
the 20th century. ·
September 16 – Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze is last seen alive;
this day is taken as the commemoration date of his death. ·
September 26 – The Greek ferry Express Samina sinks
off the coast of the island of Paros; 80 out of a total of over 500
passengers perish in one of Greece's worst sea disasters. ·
September 29 – The HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland is
closed. October[edit] ·
October 5 – Mass
demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Yugoslavia's
president Slobodan
Milošević. ·
October 6 – The last Mini is
produced in Longbridge. ·
October 11 – 250 million US
gallons (950,000 m3) of coal sludge spill in Martin County,
Kentucky (considered a greater environmental disaster than
the Exxon Valdez oil
spill). ·
October 12 – In Aden, Yemen, USS Cole is badly damaged by two Al-Qaeda suicide bombers, who place a small boat
laden with explosives alongside the United States Navy destroyer,
killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39. ·
October 22 – The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper exposes
Japanese archeologist Shinichi Fujimura as
a fraud; Japanese archaeologists had based their treatises on his findings. ·
Pakistani
authorities announce that their police have found an apparently ancient mummy
of a Persian Princess in
the province of Balochistan. Iran,
Pakistan and the Taliban all claim
the mummy until Pakistan announces it is a modern-day fake on April 17, 2001. ·
The New York Yankees defeat the New York Mets 4-2 in the fifth game of
the World Series to win the first "Subway Series" since 1956 by 4
games to 1. The series win was the Yankees third in a row and 26th overall.[importance?] ·
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[edit] ·
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 – In London, a criminal
gang raids the Millennium
Dome to steal the Millennium Star diamond, but police
surveillance catches them in the act. ·
November 11 – Kaprun disaster, Austria: A funicular fire in an Alpine tunnel
kills 155 skiers and snowboarders. ·
November 17 – A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions
of SIT of
damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100
years. December[edit] ·
December 7 – Kadisoka temple discovered in Sleman,
Yogyakarta, Indonesia. ·
December 15 – The third and final
reactor at the Chernobyl
Nuclear Power Plant is shut down and the station is shut down
completely. ·
December 25 – The Luoyang Christmas
fire at a shopping center in China kills 309 people. World population[edit]
Births[edit]
January[edit]
·
January 1 – Ekaterina
Alexandrovskaya, Russian-Australian pair skater ·
January 7 – Marcus Scribner, American actor ·
January 8 – Noah Cyrus, American actress and singer ·
Shareef O'Neal, American basketball player ·
Marrit Steenbergen,
Dutch swimmer ·
January 19 – Choi Da-bin, South Korean figure skater February[edit]
·
February 1 – Paris Smith, American actress and singer ·
February 5 – Jordan Nagai, American actor ·
February 10 – Yara Shahidi, American actress ·
February 20 – Josh Sargent, American footballer ·
Cho I-hsuan, Taiwanese professional tennis
player ·
Yuto Miyazawa, Japanese singer ·
February 28 – Moise Kean, Italian footballer March[edit]
·
March 1 – Ava Allan, American actress ·
March 2 ·
Nahida Akter, Bangladeshi cricketer ·
Julia Kedhammar, Swedish singer ·
Bianca Umali, Filipino actress ·
March 5 – Jack Aitchison, Scottish footballer ·
March 6 – Jacob Bertrand, American actor ·
March 10 – Norah Flatley, American artistic gymnast ·
March 15 – Kristian Kostov, Russian/Bulgarian
singer-songwriter ·
March 21 – Jace Norman, American actor ·
March 25 ·
Camden Pulkinen, American figure skater ·
Christian Traeumer,
American actor ·
March 27 – Sophie Nélisse,
Canadian actress ·
March 30 – Regan Mizrahi, American child actor ·
March 31 – Anu Anand, Indian actress April[edit]
·
April 1 – Barbora Seemanová,
Czech swimmer ·
April 6 – Shaheen Afridi, Pakistani cricketer ·
April 7 – Ivan Ivanov,
Bulgarian singer and songwriter ·
April 9 – Jackie Evancho, American soprano ·
April 11 ·
Morgan Lily, American actress ·
Alexei Krasnozhon,
Russian-American figure skater ·
April 13 – Rasmus Dahlin, Swedish ice hockey player ·
April 28 – Ellie Carpenter, Australian footballer May[edit]
·
May 7 – Maxwell Perry Cotton,
American actor ·
May 15 – Jacob Bragg, Australian runner ·
May 18 ·
Addison Holley, Canadian actress ·
Ryan Sessegnon, English footballer ·
May 23 – Evan Bird, Canadian actor ·
May 24 – Anja Crevar, Serbian swimmer ·
May 28 – Taylor Ruck, Canadian swimmer ·
May 30 – Jared S. Gilmore, American actor June[edit] ·
June 1 – Willow Shields, American actress and dancer ·
June 2 – Lilimar Hernandez,
Venezuelan actress ·
June 5 – Eliias, Swedish singer ·
June 9 – Laurie Hernandez, American artistic gymnast ·
June 13 – Penny Oleksiak, Canadian swimmer ·
June 16 – Bianca Andreescu, Canadian tennis player ·
June 23 ·
Kim Hyun-soo,
South Korean actress ·
Caitlin Blackwood,
English actress ·
June 29 – Kia Pegg, English actress July[edit]
·
July 1 – Lalu Muhammad Zohri,
Indonesian sprinter ·
July 4 – Rikako Ikee, Japanese swimmer ·
July 6 – Jesperi Kotkaniemi,
Finnish ice hockey player ·
July 12 – Vinícius Júnior,
Brazilian footballer ·
July 16 – Jonathan Morgan Heit,
American actor ·
July 18 – Angelina Melnikova,
Russian artistic gymnast ·
July 24 – Marko Čalasan, Macedonian computer
systems prodigy ·
July 25 – Ellie Soutter, British snowboarder (d. 2018) ·
July 28 – Emile Smith Rowe, English footballer August[edit]
·
August 2 – Sandeep Lamichhane,
Nepalese cricketer ·
August 3 – Landry Bender, American actress ·
August 8 – Félix Auger-Aliassime,
Canadian tennis player ·
August 11 – James Cartmell,
British actor ·
August 17 – Lil Pump, American rapper and songwriter ·
August 20 – Fátima Ptacek, American actress ·
August 21 – Kate Valdez, Filipino model and actress ·
August 24 – Griffin Gluck, American actor ·
August 25 – Vincenzo Cantiello,
Italian singer ·
August 26 – Noah Ryan Scott, Canadian actor ·
August 27 – Tatsuomi Hamada, Japanese actor and model ·
August 29 – Julia Grosso, Canadian soccer player September[edit] ·
September 1 – Jacob Ewaniuk, Canadian teen actor ·
September 5 – Ceren Akkaya, Turkish footballer ·
Frankie Jonas, American actor ·
Ahn Do-gyu, South Korean actor October[edit]
·
October 6 – Isobelle Molloy, British actress ·
October 10 – Aedin Mincks, American actor ·
October 11 – Hayden Byerly, American actor ·
October 16 – David Rawle, Irish actor ·
Vincent Zhou, American figure skater ·
Mizuki Itagaki, Japanese actor, model, and
singer[importance?] ·
October 26 – Ellery Sprayberry,
American actress ·
October 31 – Willow Smith, American actress and singer November[edit]
·
November 2 – Alphonso Davies, Canadian football player ·
Jade Pettyjohn, American actress ·
Anastasia Skoptsova,
Russian ice dancer ·
Jasmine Thompson, English singer and songwriter ·
November 10 – Mackenzie Foy, American model and actress ·
November 20 – Connie Talbot, British singer ·
November 21 – Megan Roberts, Canadian artistic gymnast ·
November 22 – Auliʻi Cravalho,
American actress December[edit] ·
December 12 – Lucas Jade Zumann,
American actor ·
December 24 – Ethan Bortnick, American musician Deaths[edit] Main article: Deaths in 2000 January[edit]
·
Nat Adderley, American jazz musician
(b. 1931) ·
Patrick O'Brian, British writer (b. 1914) ·
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies,
mother of King Juan Carlos I (b. 1910) ·
Diether Krebs, German actor, cabaret artist
and comedian. (b. 1947) ·
Spyros Markezinis,
Greek politician, 169th Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1909) ·
Gary Albright, American professional
wrestler (b. 1963) ·
Makhmud Esambayev,
Russian actor and dancer (b. 1924) ·
January 8 – Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian and show
jumper (b. 1918) ·
January 10 – Sam Jaffe,
American film producer (b. 1901) ·
Dan Kemp, American actor (b. 1927) ·
Bob Lemon, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1920) ·
January 12 – Bobby Phills, American professional
basketball player (b. 1969) ·
January 13 – Antti Hyvärinen,
Finnish Olympic ski jumper (b. 1932) ·
January 15 – Željko
Ražnatović, Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (b. 1952) ·
January 18 – Frances Drake, American actress (b. 1912) ·
Bettino Craxi, Italian politician,
45th Prime Minister of
Italy (b. 1934) ·
Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (b. 1914) ·
Alan North, American actor (b. 1920) ·
January 20 – Izabella Yurieva, Russian singer (b. 1899) ·
January 21 – Saeb Salam, Lebanese politician, 20th Prime Minister
of Lebanon (b. 1905) ·
January 24 – Rex Nelon, American Southern gospel singer
(b. 1932) ·
January 26 – Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915) February[edit]
·
Claude Autant-Lara,
French film director (b. 1901) ·
Ward Cornell, Canadian radio/TV broadcaster
& educator (b. 1924) ·
Doug Henning, Canadian magician (b. 1947) ·
Shiho Niiyama, Japanese voice actress
(b. 1970) ·
Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player
(b. 1918) ·
Bob Collins,
American broadcaster (b. 1942) ·
Ion Gheorghe Maurer,
Romanian lawyer and politician, 49th Prime Minister
of Romania (b. 1902) ·
Derrick Thomas, American football player
(b. 1967) ·
February 9 – Beau Jack, American boxer (b. 1921) ·
February 10 – Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949) ·
Jacqueline Auriol,
French aviator (b. 1917) ·
Roger Vadim, French film director and
producer (b. 1928) ·
Tom Landry, American football coach
(b. 1924) ·
Charles M. Schulz,
American comic strip artist (b. 1922) ·
Oliver, American pop singer (b. 1945) ·
Screamin' Jay
Hawkins, American rock singer and performer (b. 1929) ·
February 13 – Anders Aalborg, Canadian politician
(b. 1914) ·
Friedensreich
Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (b. 1928) ·
Djidingar Dono
Ngardoum, 2nd Prime Minister of
Chad (b. 1928) ·
Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957) ·
Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer
(b. 1915) March[edit]
·
March 2 – Sandra Schmirler, Canadian Olympic curler
(b. 1963) ·
March 3 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist
(b. 1904) ·
March 5 ·
Lolo Ferrari, French actress and dancer
(b. 1962) ·
Roma Mitchell, Australia lawyer and Governor of
South Australia (b. 1913) ·
March 6 ·
John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928) ·
Abraham Waligo, Ugandan politician,
4th Prime Minister
of Uganda (b. 1928) ·
March 7 ·
Charles Gray,
English actor (b. 1928) ·
Masami Yoshida, Japanese athlete (b. 1958) ·
March 9 – Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and music
educator (b. 1908) ·
March 11 ·
Will Roberts, British painter (b. 1907) ·
Alfred Schwarzmann,
German gymnast (b. 1912) ·
March 20 – Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer
(b. 1961) ·
March 27 – Ian Dury, British rock musician (b. 1942) ·
March 28 – Anthony Powell, British author (b. 1905) ·
March 30 – Rudolf Kirchschläger,
Austrian diplomat and 8th President of Austria (b. 1915) April[edit]
·
April 2 – Tommaso Buscetta, Italian mafioso informant
(b. 1928) ·
April 3 – Terence McKenna, American writer,
philosopher, writer and entheogen advocate (b. 1946) ·
April 4 – Derek Allhusen, British equestrian (b. 1914) ·
April 5 – Lee Petty, American race-car driver
(b. 1914) ·
April 6 – Habib Bourguiba, 1st President of Tunisia (b. 1903) ·
April 8 ·
Bernie Grant, British politician (b. 1944) ·
Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910) ·
April 10 ·
Rabah Bitat, Algerian politician and
Interim President of Algeria (b. 1925) ·
Larry Linville, American actor (b. 1939) ·
April 11 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and
dancer (b. 1945) ·
April 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, 2nd Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) (b. 1906) ·
April 30 – Poul Hartling, Danish diplomat and
politician, 21st Prime Minister
of Denmark (b. 1914) May[edit]
·
May 1 ·
Steve Reeves, American actor and bodybuilder
(b. 1926) ·
Jukka Tapanimäki,
Finnish game programmer (b. 1961) ·
May 2 – Sundar Popo, Indo-Trinidadian chutney
musician (b. 1943) ·
May 3 – Júlia Báthory,
Hungarian glass designer (b. 1901) ·
May 7 – Douglas Fairbanks
Jr., American actor (b. 1909) ·
May 8 – Hubert Maga, 1st President of Dahomey (b. 1916) ·
May 10 ·
Kaneto Shiozawa, Japanese voice actor
(b. 1954) ·
Craig Stevens,
American actor (b. 1918) ·
May 11 – René Muńoz, Cuban actor and screenwriter
(b. 1938) ·
May 12 – Adam Petty, American NASCAR driver (b. 1980) ·
May 13 ·
Paul Bartel, American actor, writer and
director (b. 1938) ·
Tomomi Tsuruta, Japanese professional
wrestler (b. 1951) ·
May 14 – Keizō Obuchi, Japanese politician,
54th Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1937) ·
May 19 – Petter Hugsted, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper
(b. 1921) ·
May 20 ·
Edward Bernds, American director (b. 1905) ·
Malik Sealy, American basketball player
(b. 1970)[importance?] ·
May 21 ·
Dame Barbara Cartland, British novelist (b. 1901) ·
Sir John Gielgud, British actor (b. 1904) ·
Mark R. Hughes, American MLM founder
(b. 1956) ·
Erich Mielke, German secret police official
(b. 1907) ·
May 25 – Francis Lederer, French film and stage actor
(b. 1899) ·
May 27 ·
Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter
pilot and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912) ·
Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player
(b. 1921) ·
May 30 – Doris Hare, British actress (b. 1905) ·
May 31 ·
Petar Mladenov, Bulgarian diplomat and
politician, 1st President of
Bulgaria (b. 1936) ·
Tito Puente, American jazz musician
(b. 1923) June[edit]
·
June 3 – Merton Miller, American economist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923) ·
June 10 ·
Hafez al-Assad, Syrian politician and
general, 18th President of Syria (b. 1930) ·
Frank Patterson, Irish tenor (b. 1938) ·
June 12 – Logan Ramsey, American actor (b. 1921) ·
June 14 – Robert Trent Jones,
English-born golf course designer (b. 1906) ·
June 16 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903) ·
June 17 – Ismail Mahomed, South African and Namibian
Chief Justice (b. 1931) ·
June 18 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928) ·
June 19 – Noboru Takeshita, Japanese politician,
46th Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1924) ·
June 21 – Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911) ·
June 24 – David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917) ·
June 27 – Pierre Pflimlin, French politician,
97th Prime Minister
of France (b. 1907) ·
June 29 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922) July[edit]
·
July 1 – Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920) ·
July 2 – Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcyclist
(b. 1952) ·
July 6 – Lazar Koliševski,
2nd President of
Yugoslavia (b. 1914) ·
July 7 ·
Kenny Irwin Jr., NASCAR Driver (b. 1969) ·
James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher
(b. 1921) ·
July 8 – FM-2030, Transhumanist philosopher (b. 1930) ·
July 10 ·
Vakkom Majeed, Indian freedom fighter and
Legislative member (b. 1909) ·
Denis O'Conor Don,
hereditary chief of the O'Conor Don sept of Ireland (b. 1912) ·
July 11 – Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury
(b. 1921) ·
July 12 – Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer
(b. 1908) ·
July 15 – Kalle Svensson, Swedish footballer (b. 1925) ·
July 21 – Yosef Qafih, Israeli rabbi (b. 1917) ·
July 27 – Virginia Admiral, American painter and poet
(b. 1915) ·
July 28 – Abraham Pais, American physicist (b. 1918) ·
July 29 – René Favaloro, Argentinian cardiologist
(b. 1923) August[edit]
Sir Alec Guinness
·
August 3 – Isolina Ferre, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic nun (b. 1914) ·
August 5 ·
Otto Buchsbaum, German writer and ecological
activist (b. 1920) ·
Sir Alec Guinness, British actor and writer
(b. 1914) ·
August 6 ·
Sir Robin Day, British political broadcaster
(b. 1923) ·
Don A. Jones, American admiral and civil
engineer (b. 1912) ·
August 8 – K. Kailasanatha
Kurukkal, Sri Lankan researcher, writer and professor (b. 1921) ·
August 9 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist
(b. 1920) ·
Dave Edwards,
American musician (b. 1941) ·
Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913) ·
August 13 – Nazia Hassan, Pakistani singer (b. 1964) ·
August 19 – Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo activist and leader
(b. 1946) ·
August 20 – Bunny Austin, English tennis player
(b. 1906) ·
August 21 – Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician, 3rd Prime Minister
of Zambia (b. 1930) ·
August 22 – Abulfaz Elchibey, Azerbaijani political
figure, 2nd President of
Azerbaijan (b. 1938) ·
August 24 – Andy Hug, Swiss Seidokaikan karateka and kickboxer (b. 1964) ·
Carl Barks, American cartoonist and
screenwriter (b. 1901) ·
Ivan Stambolić,
Serbian politician (b. 1936) ·
August 30 – David Haskell, American actor (b. 1948) September[edit]
·
Elvera Sanchez, American dancer (b. 1905) ·
Curt Siodmak, American novelist and
screenwriter (b. 1902) ·
Jean Speegle Howard,
American actress (b. 1927) ·
September 5 – Abdul Haris Nasution,
Indonesian general (b. 1918) ·
September 14 – Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920) ·
September 16 – Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist
(b. 1969) ·
Bakht Singh, Indian evangelist (b. 1903) ·
Paula Yates, British television presenter
(b. 1959) ·
Ann Doran, American actress (b. 1911) ·
Anthony Robert Klitz,
British artist (b. 1917) ·
September 22 – Saburō Sakai, Japanese fighter ace
(b. 1916) ·
September 25 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913) ·
September 26 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932) ·
September 27 – Sammy Luftspring, Canadian boxer (b. 1916) ·
Peter Gennaro, American dancer and
choreographer (b. 1919) ·
Pote Sarasin, Thai diplomat and politician,
9th Prime Minister
of Thailand (b. 1905) ·
Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of
Canada (b. 1919) October[edit]
·
October 1 – Rosie Douglas, 5th Prime Minister
of Dominica (b. 1941) ·
October 3 – Benjamin Orr, American singer-songwriter
(b. 1947) ·
October 4 – Michael Smith,
English-born chemist (b. 1932) ·
October 6 – Richard Farnsworth,
American actor (b. 1920) ·
October 7 – Walter Krupinski, German fighter ace and
general (b. 1920) ·
October 8 – Sheila Holland, English writer (b. 1937) ·
October 9 – Patrick Anthony
Porteous, British recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918) ·
October 10 – Sirimavo
Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician, 2-time Prime Minister
of Ceylon and 2-time Prime
Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916) ·
October 11 – Donald Dewar, First Minister
of Scotland (b. 1937) ·
October 13 – Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926) ·
October 14 – Tony Roper,
American NASCAR driver (b. 1964) ·
October 15 – Konrad Emil Bloch,
German-born biochemist (b. 1912) ·
Mel Carnahan, American politician (b. 1934) ·
Rick Jason, American actor (b. 1923) ·
October 18 – Julie London, American singer and actress
(b. 1926) ·
October 19 – Charles
Perkins, Australian aboriginal activist and soccer player
(b. 1936) ·
October 21 – Reginald Kray, British criminal (b. 1933) ·
Fred Pratt Green, British Methodist minister
and hymn writer (b. 1903) ·
Jean-Luc Mandaba, 11th Prime
Minister of Central African Republic (b. 1943) ·
Rodney Anoa'i,
American wrestler (b. 1966) ·
Nils Tapp, Swedish Olympic cross-country
skier (b. 1917) ·
October 27 – Walter Berry,
Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929) ·
October 28 – Andújar Cedeńo,
Dominican baseball player (b. 1969) ·
October 30 – Steve Allen, American comedian and author
(b. 1921) ·
October 31 – Ring Lardner, Jr.,
American screenwriter (b. 1915) November[edit]
·
David Brower, American environmental
activist (b. 1912) ·
Jimmie Davis, American singer (b. 1899) ·
Roger Peyrefitte, French writer and diplomat
(b. 1907) ·
November 6 – L. Sprague de Camp,
American writer (b. 1907) ·
C Subramaniam,
Indian politician (b. 1910) ·
Ingrid of Sweden, Queen consort of Frederick
IX of Denmark (b. 1910) ·
November 8 – Józef Pińkowski,
Polish politician, 50th Prime Minister
of Poland (b. 1929) ·
Adamantios
Androutsopoulos, Greek lawyer and professor, 168th Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1919) ·
Jacques
Chaban-Delmas, French politician, 102nd Prime Minister
of France (b. 1915) ·
November 11 – Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915) ·
November 16 – DJ Screw, American hip hop DJ (b. 1971) ·
November 17 – Louis Néel, French physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) ·
November 19 – George Cosmas Adyebo,
6th Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1947) ·
Sir Cyril Astley Clarke, British physician,
geneticist and entomologist (b. 1907) ·
Christian Marquand,
French actor and director (b. 1927) ·
Emil Zatopek, Czechoslovakian Olympic
athlete (b. 1922) ·
November 28 – Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895) December[edit]
·
December 2 – Gail Fisher, American actress (b. 1935) ·
December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American writer (b. 1917) ·
December 6 – Werner Klemperer, American actor (b. 1920) ·
December 8 – Ionatana Ionatana,
5th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1938) ·
Paul Avery, American journalist (b. 1934) ·
Marie Windsor, American actress (b. 1919) ·
December 11 – Johannes Virolainen,
Finnish politician, 30th Prime Minister
of Finland (b. 1914) ·
December 17 – Blaise Rabetafika,
Malagasy diplomat (b. 1932) ·
December 18 – Kirsty MacColl, English singer (b. 1959) ·
John Lindsay, American politician and
lawyer, Mayor of New York
City (b. 1921) ·
Roebuck "Pops" Staples, American
musician (b. 1914) ·
Son Sann, Cambodian politician, 24th Prime Minister
of Cambodia (b. 1911) ·
Billy Barty, American actor (b. 1924) ·
Victor Borge, Danish-born American actor and
comedian (b. 1909) ·
December 26 – Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922) ·
December 30 – Julius J. Epstein,
American screenwriter (b. 1909) ·
December 31 – Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev
Kahane, Israeli settler leader (b. 1966) Nobel Prizes[edit]
·
Chemistry – Alan J. Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid, and Hideki Shirakawa ·
Economics – James Heckman and Daniel McFadden ·
Peace – Kim Dae-jung ·
Physics – Zhores Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, and Jack Kilby ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, and Eric Kandel See also[edit] References |
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