The millennium bug does not only bite computers.
Human beings are susceptible to it, too.
Often, there is only the foggiest idea as to what is actually being celebrated. That it is notionally 2000 years since the birth of Christ is quite forgotten in general. An additional irony lies in the fact that recent evidence from history, archaeology, and astronomy suggests a birthdate about seven years earlier, so the real millennium came and went unnoticed in the early 1990s. However that may be, the grand spirit of revelry and bonhomie cannot be quenched by such mundane considerations, and celebration there shall be. Inclusion in this hall of fame would do little for the individuals concerned for the simple reason that they all had to be dead.