* 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

* 1908 – William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American novelist ( d. 2000 )

William Prentice disagrees with both, noting that archeological evidence suggests that the Achaeans instead migrated from " southern Asia Minor to Greece, probably settling first in lower Thessaly " probably prior to 2000 BC.

* Peter Baker The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton ( 2000 ) ISBN 0-684-86813-X

The other judges were John Toohey QC, a former Justice of the High Court of Australia who had worked on Aboriginal issues ( he replaced New Zealander Sir Edward Somers QC, who retired from the Inquiry in 2000 for personal reasons ), and Mr Justice William Hoyt QC, former Chief Justice of New Brunswick and a member of the Canadian Judicial Council.

* Vaughan, William and Weston, Helen ( eds ), Jacques-Louis David's Marat, Cambridge ( 2000 )

* Ury, William, 2000.

The importance of Epictetus ' Stoicism for Stockdale, its role in A Man in Full, and its significance in Gladiator ( 2000 film ) is discussed by William O. Stephens < ref >

The executive order signed in 1996 to turn off Selective Availability in 2000 was proposed by the US Secretary of Defense, William Perry, because of the widespread growth of differential GPS services to improve civilian accuracy and eliminate the US military advantage.

* 2000 – William Roscoe Estep, American historian ( b. 1920 )

Due to the prevalence of American television programs and motion pictures in which the police characters frequently read suspects their rights, it has become an expected element of arrest procedure — in the 2000 Dickerson decision, Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote that Miranda warnings had " become embedded in routine police practice to the point where the warnings have become part of our national culture.

* William S. Lind, " The Origins of Political Correctness ", Accuracy in Academia, 2000.

* William Simon ( 1930 – 2000 )

* Alston, William P., Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning, Ithaca, N. Y .: Cornell University Press, 2000

* William McGaughey's Five Epochs of Civilization ( 2000 ).

* Jolitz, William F. and Jolitz, Lynne Greer: Operating System Source Code Secrets Vol 2 Virtual Memory, 2000, ISBN 1-57398-027-7

* February 12 – William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian ( d. 2000 )

In 2000, electronic musician William Orbit included a modern, electronic orchestration of an excerpt from Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana on his album Pieces in a Modern Style.

Immortalized as Elsinore in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Kronborg is one of the most important Renaissance castles in Northern Europe and was added to UNESCO's World Heritage Sites list on November 30, 2000.

Julia Whistler, the wife of Captain Whistler's son, Lieutenant William Whistler, later related that 2000 Indians gathered to see the Tracy.

New York: William Morrow, 2000.

New York: William Morrow, 2000.

* Marszalek, John F., « William Tecumseh Sherman », Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, Heidler, David S., and Heidler, Jeanne T., eds., W. W. Norton & Company, 2000, ISBN 0-393-04758-X.

Writing in 2000, David Roffe argued that the inquest ( the survey ) and the construction of the book were two distinct exercises ; the latter being completed, if not started, by William II following his assumption of the English throne and quashing of the rebellion that followed and based on, though not consequent on, the findings of the inquest.

* Beat ( 2000 film ), a film about writer William Seward Burroughs