Explore 910 historical events from 2000–2009.
Sir Arthur John Gielgud was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trinity of actor…
John Gielgud, English actor (born 1904)
Mark R. Hughes was an American entrepreneur who was the founder, chairman, and CEO of Herbalife, a multi-level marketing company.
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Edmund Davie Fulton was a Canadian Rhodes Scholar, politician and judge. He was born in Kamloops, British Columbia, the son of politician/lawyer Frederick John Fulton and Winnifred…
Davie Fulton, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1916)
Kurt Schork was an American and Bosnian war correspondent, working for Reuters.
Kurt Schork, American journalist and scholar (born 1947)
Asrar ul Hassan Khan, better known as Majrooh Sultanpuri, was an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist in the Hindi language film industry. He wrote lyrics for numerous Hindi film soundtra…
Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian poet and songwriter (born 1919)
Kazimierz Leski, nom de guerre Bradl, was a Polish engineer, co-designer of the Polish submarines ORP Sęp (1938) and ORP Orzeł, a fighter pilot, and an officer in World War II Home…
Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer and pilot (born 1912)
Crawford Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch,, was a British politician, diplomat and colonial official who served as the 25th Governor of Hong Kong, from 1971 to 1982. He w…
Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, Scottish politician and diplomat, 25th Governor of Hong Kong (born 1917)
Joseph Henri Maurice Richard was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens. He was the first pl…
Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1921)
George Irving Bell was an American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer, and a grandson of John Joseph Seerley. He died in 2000 from complications of leukemia after surgery.
George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (born 1926)
Gordon Lee "Tex" Beneke was an American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader. His career is a history of associations with bandleader Glenn Miller and former musicians and singers w…
Tex Beneke, American saxophonist and bandleader (born 1914)
Petar Toshev Mladenov was a Bulgarian communist diplomat and politician. He was the last leader of the Bulgarian People's Republic from 1989 to 1990, and briefly the first Presiden…
Petar Mladenov, Bulgarian diplomat, 1st President of Bulgaria (born 1936)
Alfred Jeyaratnam Wilson was a Sri Lankan Tamil academic, historian and author. He began his academic career as a lecturer in economics and political science at the University of C…
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Ernest Anthony Puente Jr., commonly known as Tito Puente, was an American musician, songwriter, bandleader, timbalero, vibraphonist and record producer. He composed dance-oriented …
Tito Puente, American drummer, composer, and producer (born 1923)
John H. Schlee was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s.
John Schlee, American golfer (born 1939)
Gerald James Whitrow was a British mathematician, cosmologist and science historian.
Gerald James Whitrow, English mathematician, cosmologist, and historian (born 1912)
Elián González Brotons is a Cuban engineer and politician. As a six-year-old child, he was at the center of a high-profile international custody dispute between members of his fami…
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Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov was a Russian ophthalmologist, politician, professor, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. He is…
Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist, academic, and politician (born 1927)
Air Philippines Flight 541 was a scheduled domestic flight operated by Air Philippines from Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Metro Manila to Francisco Bangoy International Air…
Air Philippines Flight 541 crashed in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board
Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, OLM was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic. Faustyna, popularly spelled Faustina in English, had apparitions of Jesus C…
Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun whose apparitions of Jesus inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, was canon
Kenneth Robert Livingstone is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as the first…
Ken Livingstone took office as the first mayor of London
The Enschede fireworks disaster was a catastrophic fireworks explosion on 13 May 2000 in Enschede, Netherlands. The explosion killed 23 people, including four firefighters, and inj…
An explosion at a fireworks factory in Enschede, Netherlands, resulted in 23 deaths and approximately €450 million in da
The 2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence in Istanbul, Turkey, between fans of English football team Leeds United and Turkish team Galatasaray on 5 April 2000, the day before the first…
Following the killing of two English football fans by Galatasaray supporters in the previous month, British and Turkish