* 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

* The C ++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup – Addison-Wesley Pub Co ; 3rd edition ( February 15, 2000 ); ISBN 0-201-70073-5

* Las Vegas, the 3rd race of the 2001 season, was noted for the fact that Mike Skinner, Earnhardt's teammate at Richard Childress Racing, took over Earnhardt's slot in the No Bull 5 million dollar eligibility for this race since Earnhardt had qualified for the No Bull 5 prize after his final victory in the 2000 Winston 500 at Talladega.

In 2000, the original version of the game was discontinued and the AD & D version was renamed Dungeons & Dragons with the release of its 3rd edition.

Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition ( 2000 ) assumes the use of miniatures to represent combat situations in play, an aspect of the game that was further emphasized in the v3. 5 revision.

He was a primary play tester for the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition bookset, released by Wizards in 2000.

2010 was the 1st season without LaDainian Tomlinson since 2000 ( let go by management due to an over-sized contract relative to production and other issues, he went on to lead the Jets in rushing with 914 yards & tied for 3rd in receptions with 52 ).

When PTS awarded four licenses for the 3rd generation mobile networks in December 2000, Telia was not among the winners, but later established an agreement to build a 3G network jointly with Tele2 using Tele2's licence.

In the UK The Hobbit has not retreated from the top 5, 000 books of Nielsen BookScan since 1995, when the index began, achieving a three-year sales peak rising from 33, 084 ( 2000 ) to 142, 541 ( 2001 ), 126, 771 ( 2002 ) and 61, 229 ( 2003 ), ranking it at the 3rd position in Nielsens ' " Evergreen " book list.

Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, due to a tendency to group the years according to decimal values, as if year zero were counted.

In 2000, after two years of work and playtesting, WotC released the 3rd edition of D & D, and defined a default setting for the game for the first time.

Concurrent with the release of the 3rd edition Player's Handbook, Living Greyhawk debuted at Gen Con 2000 with three Core adventures: COR1-1 Dragon Scales at Morningtide, by Sean K. Reynolds ; COR1-2 The Reckoning, by Sean Flaherty and John Richardson ; and COR1-3 River Of Blood, by Erik Mona.

Other riders to keep in account for a high place in the final rankings were Tyler Hamilton ( 2nd Giro 2002 ), Levi Leipheimer ( 3rd Vuelta 2001 ), Christophe Moreau ( 4th Tour 2000 ) and Armstrong's team mate Roberto Heras ( 4th Vuelta 2001 ).

* DeLancey, Mark W., and Mark Dike DeLancey ( 2000 ): Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon ( 3rd ed .).

* ( 2000 ): Domestication of plants in the Old World ( 3rd ed .).

Following the November 3rd 2000 Déclaration de Bamako, the Francophonie has given itself the financial means to attain a number of set objectives in that regard.

Brooklyn Park is a " bedroom community " of Minneapolis and St. Paul and is considered both a 2nd and 3rd tier suburb because much of the land developed north of 85th avenue was developed after the year 2000.

The population was 2, 025 at the 2010 census, a loss of over 1 / 3rd its population of 3, 206 from 2000.

The population was 373 at the 2010 census, a loss of more than 1 / 3rd its population of 588 in 2000.

The 3rd edition of the Code was from 1985, the present edition is the 4th edition ( effective since 2000 ).

At the FPI's 3rd Ordinary Congress on 9 – 11 July 1999, Gbagbo was chosen as the FPI's candidate for the October 2000 presidential election.

The 1999 – 2000 season was much better for the Battalion as they finished with a 25-29-14 record, good enough for a 3rd place finish in the Midwest Division and 7th in the Western Conference which gave them their first ever trip to the post season.

The 2000 – 01 season proved to be the first season in club history that the team would score a record above the. 500 mark with a final tally of 33-22-13 for a 3rd place finish in the Midwest Division and 5th in the Western Conference.

By 1997, Tampa Bay ranked 3rd in the league in total yards allowed, 2nd in 1998, and 3rd in 2000.