* 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

* Will Wright's computer game SimCity 2000 allows the construction of four different types of arcologies.

Gus Van Sant's 2000 Finding Forrester was quickly billed " Good Will Hunting in the Hood.

1: Uranometria 2000. 0 Deep Sky Atlas, by Wil Tirion, Barry Rappaport, and Will Remaklus, ISBN 978-0-943396-71-2 hardcover, printed boards ( blue edging ); Vol.

2: Uranometria 2000. 0 Deep Sky Atlas, by Wil Tirion, Barry Rappaport, and Will Remaklus, ISBN 978-0-943396-72-9 hardcover, printed boards ( green edging ); Vol.

* Will Eisner Library ( 2000 – present )

* Will Eisner Library ( some properties licensed 2000 to present )

* The 2000 YA novel A Question of Will by Lynne Kositsky addresses the debate over who really wrote Shakespeare's plays.

U-571 is a 2000 film directed by Jonathan Mostow, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes, and Tom Guiry.

During Buffy season four, Buffy also appears in the first season of spin-off series Angel ( 1999 – 2000 ), guest starring in the episodes " I Will Remember You " and " Sanctuary ".

* Will ( comics ) ( 1927 – 2000 ), comic strip artist

* James F. Will ( 2000 – 2006 )

In 2000, Lauper contributed a song called " I Want a Mom That Will Last Forever " for the children's movie Rugrats in Paris.

* Will " Dub " Jones ( 1928 – 2000 ), American bass vocalist

* Will & Grace ( 2000 )

* In May 2000, in the American sitcom Will & Grace episode " My Best Friend's Tush ," the characters Grace Adler ( Debra Messing ) and Karen Walker ( Megan Mullally ) visit a taco restaurant to find Helena Barnes ( Joan Collins ).

The Ocean Course was featured in the 2000 movie The Legend of Bagger Vance, starring Will Smith, Matt Damon and Charlize Theron.

The album earned her two Grammy Awards for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance ( for " Building a Mystery " in 1998 and " I Will Remember You " in 2000 ) and four Juno Awards, including Album of the Year for Surfacing and Song of the Year and Songwriter of the Year for " Building a Mystery ".

* Will Alsop ( 2000 )

Originally comprising vocalist and guitarist Sammy James, Jr., guitarist Graham Tyler, bassist John Paul Ribas and drummer Will Rockwell-Scott, the band has released four studio albums – People Get Ready ( 2000 ), Electric Sweat ( 2003 ), Alive & Amplified ( 2004 ) and Have Mercy ( 2007 ).

Altogether, they have garnered eight Top 10 albums, fifteen Top 10 singles and have reached Number One three times — with their 1998 This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours album, the 1998 " If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next " single and the 2000 " The Masses Against the Classes " single.

The 1944 " ballad opera ", The Martins and the Coys, broadcast in Britain ( but not the USA ) by the BBC, featuring Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, Will Geer, Sonny Terry, Pete Seeger, and Fiddlin ' Arthur Smith, among others, was released on Rounder Records in 2000.

* No Sleep Till Canvey Island: The Great Pub Rock Revolution, Will Birch ( Virgin Books 2000, 2003 ) ISBN 0-7535-0740-4

His second novel, a legal thriller called The Will, was published in 2000.

* The Will, 2000