* 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

In 2000 regional elections the Pole of Freedoms, with the support of Lega Nord, won in 8 regions ( the most popolous ones, except Campania ) out of 15 and Forza Italia's members were elected President of Region in Piedmont ( Enzo Ghigo, confirmed ), Lombardy ( Roberto Formigoni, confirmed ), Veneto ( Giancarlo Galan, confirmed ), Liguria ( Sandro Biasotti, newly elected ), Puglia ( Raffaele Fitto, newly elected ) and Calabria ( Giuseppe Chiaravalloti, newly elected ).

Sandro Rosa do Nascimento ( July 7, 1978-June 12, 2000 ) was the perpetrator of the Bus 174 hostage crisis in Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

One of the survivors was Sandro Rosa do Nascimento who later became infamous for hijacking a city bus and standing off with Rio police on June 12, 2000 ( Brazilian equivalent of Valentine's Day ).

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ), a large four-part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice, violin and ensemble.

The Green Party has contested four U. S. presidential elections: in 1996 and 2000 with Ralph Nader for President and Winona LaDuke as Vice President, in 2004 with David Cobb for President and Pat LaMarche for Vice President, and in 2008 with Cynthia McKinney for President and Rosa Clemente for Vice President.

The 2000 Brazilian soap opera O Cravo e a Rosa was also based on the play ( this title means " The Carnation and the Rose " and comes from a children's song about a couple of engaged flowers who had a serious " fight " – which, in Portuguese, may mean either an awful argument or some physical confrontation ).

Don Rosa wrote two comic book sequels in 2000 and 2005 titled The Three Caballeros Ride Again and The Magnificent Seven ( Minus 4 ) Caballeros respectively.

One of a generation of African and African-American filmmakers from the UCLA Film School who have created an alternative to Hollywood films, she has also made numerous music videos and television movies, the latter including Funny Valentines ( 1999 ), Incognito ( 1999 ), Love Song ( 2000 ), and The Rosa Parks Story ( 2002 ).

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ) a large four part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice and ensemble.

* Rosa Kohlheim, Volker Kohlheim: Familiennamen: Herkunft und Bedeutung von 20000 Nachnamen ( Family Names: Origin and Meaning of 20, 000 Last Names ), 2000, Duden, ISBN 3-411-70851-4

Similar population declines were discovered on Santa Cruz Island, where the population decreased from 2, 000 adults in 1994 to less than 135 in 2000, and on Santa Rosa Island where foxes may have numbered more than 1, 500 in 1994 but were reduced to 14 animals by 2000.

* In 2000 the journalists of A Bola selected Agostinho as the 4th most important Portuguese Sportsman of the 20th Century, behind Eusébio ( 1st ), Carlos Lopes ( 2nd ) and Rosa Mota ( 3rd ).

In 2000, Bono Mack helped pass legislation that established the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument in the Palm Springs region.

^ María Rosa Menocal ; Raymond P. Scheindlin ; Michael Anthony Sells ( 2000 ).

One highly cited study, designed by nine year old Emily Rosa and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that practitioners of therapeutic touch could not detect the presence or absence of a hand placed a few inches above theirs when their vision was obstructed .< ref name =" Glazer 2000 ">

Much of the range is embraced by the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument created in 2000.

A recent work ( 2000 ), involving universities and the offices of cartography of Italy and Switzerland, was made in order to record a more precise elevation for Monte Rosa.

* 2000: María Rosa, búscame una esposa .... María Rosa Garcia

( 1995 ), Tem Mas Acabou ( 1996 ), Televisão de Cachorro ( 1998 ), Isopor ( 1999 ), Ruído Rosa ( 2000 ), MTV ao Vivo: No Museu de Arte da Pampulha ( 2002 ), Toda Cura para Todo Mal ( 2005 ), and Daqui Pro Futuro ( 2007 ), and with launch scheduled for 2010, Música de Brinquedo.

* María Rosa, búscame una esposa, 2000

* 2000: “ Interview with World Curator Rosa Martínez ”, by Young Chul Lee, Art, September.

2000 Named to the Council of Honored Elders of the group ‘ Earth Elders ’, Santa Rosa, CA