* Bunny Austin ( 1906 – 2000 ), British tennis player

Rethinking the Angolan Crisis and the Portuguese Revolution, 1974 – 1976, Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History, 26 / 2, 2000, pp. 22 – 44

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

The Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic and Korean-Japanese-Ainu groupings were also posited by Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ) who, however, treated them as independent members of a larger family, which he termed Eurasiatic.

* Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ).

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.

* 1926 – Gil Kane, Latvian cartoonist ( d. 2000 )

* 1928 – Hugh Hood, Canadian author ( d. 2000 )

* 1937 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist ( d. 2000 )

* 1938 – Paul Bartel, American actor ( d. 2000 )

* 1940 – Bill Musselman, American basketball coach ( d. 2000 )

* 2000 – Piper Reese, American video blogger

* 1941 – Doris Coley, American singer ( The Shirelles ) ( d. 2000 )

* 2000 – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish jurist ( b. 1924 )

Mainly Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) but also Marin Mersenne ( 1588 – 1648 ), independently, discovered the complete laws of vibrating strings ( completing what Pythagoras and Pythagoreans had started 2000 years earlier ).

* 1892 – Kin Narita, Japanese identical twin who lived to be 107 ( d. 2000 )

* 1916 – Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet ( d. 2000 )

* 1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer ( d. 2000 )

* 1934 – John Beck, New Zealand cricketer ( d. 2000 )

* 1936 – W. D. Hamilton, English biologist ( d. 2000 )

* 1958 – Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter ( 10, 000 Maniacs ) ( d. 2000 )

* 1903 – Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician ( d. 2000 )

* Friedensreich Hundertwasser ( 1928 – 2000 ): artist and architect

* Barzun, Jacques ( 2000 ).

Tiberi was finally expelled from the RPR, Chirac's party, on 12 October 2000, declaring to the Figaro magazine on 18 November 2000: " Jacques Chirac is not my friend anymore ".

* 2000 – Jacques Loussier, arrangement for jazz trio

Papon applied for release on the grounds of poor health in March 2000, but President Jacques Chirac denied the petition three times.

* Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence, ( 2000 ).

* Levy, Jacques ( 2000 ): From Geopolitics to Global Politics: A French Connection ( ISBN 0-7146-5107-9 )

( Casterman, 2000 ); drawn by: Jacques Tardi

* Jacques Derrida, Demeure: Fiction and Testimony ( Stanford, 2000 )

President Jacques Chirac demands reports from cabinet ministers on the crisis, while in Italy the newspaper La Repubblica suggests that Italy had 2000 more deaths than normal due to the heatwave.

Jacques Gerschwiler ( 10 September 1898 – 4 May 2000 ) was a noted Swiss figure skater and coach.

In his 2000 film entitled Traître ou Patriote, filmmaker Jacques Godbout, Adélard's nephew, lamented what he perceived as a lack of public knowledge about his uncles's work and premiership.

According to a study done by Jacques Charmes, in the year 2000 informal labor made up 57 % of non-agricultural employment, 40 % of urban employment, and 83 % of the new jobs in Latin America.

On December 19, 2000, former Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau ( who held similar remarks in 1995 before resigning ), and many others signed an open letter condemning the hasty resolution and supporting Michaud's, in the name of the right to freedom of expression and the distinction of power between the federal and provincial governments ( hate speech laws being under the canadian federal jurisdiction ).

On 18 November 2004, Farage announced in the European Parliament that Jacques Barrot, the French Commissioner designate, had been barred from elected office in France for 2 years, after being convicted in 2000 of embezzling £ 2 million from government funds and diverting it into the coffers of his party.

Robert Silverberg & Jacques Chambon, Flammarion 2000

Jacques Chaban-Delmas (; 7 March 1915 in Paris – 10 November 2000 in Paris ) was a French Gaullist politician.

Chef Jacques Torres opened a chocolate factory in Dumbo in December 2000.

Geoffrey O ’ Byrne White replaced Jacques Bankir as CEO of CityJet in 2000, and held this position until 2010.

He would finish second to Jacques Villeneuve in CART championship points in 1995, but after finishing fourth in 1996, 13th in 1997, 11th in 1998 and 21st in 1999, ( not helped by the fact that he had to sit out two races after breaking his leg in the season-opener at Miami in a first-lap accident with Japanese driver Naoki Hattori ) Unser would eventually leave CART to join the budding Indy Racing League for the 2000 campaign.

Jacques Derrida's famous work on " hospitality, the Other, the enemy " is an explicit " gloss " on Benveniste's ground-breaking study of host / hostility / hospitality in the Vocabulary ( Chapter 7 ) ( Jacques Derrida, On Hospitality, 2000 ).

* Jacques Freitag ( 2000 ): South African Olympic high jumper, gold medalist at 2003 IAAF World Championship

* Prix Jacques Le Marois – ( 3 ) – Dubai Millennium ( 1999 ), Muhtathir ( 2000 ), Librettist ( 2006 )