page_title: 2000
section_title: June
hierarchical_section_title: 2000 / Deaths / June
caption_attribution_description: Syrian president Hafez al-Assad on a official portrait.
context_page_description: 2000 was a century leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2000th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 1000th and last year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 2000s decade.
  2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematical Year.
  Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium due to a tendency of grouping the years according to decimal values, as if year zero were counted. According to the Gregorian calendar, these distinctions fall to the year 2001, because the 1st century was retroactively said to start with the year AD 1. Since the Gregorian calendar does not have year zero, its first millennium spanned from years 1 to 1000 inclusively and its second millennium from years 1001 to 2000.
  The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as "Y2K". The year 2000 was the subject of Y2K concerns, which were fears that computers would not shift from 1999 to 2000 correctly. However, by the end of 1999, many companies had already converted to new, or upgraded, existing software.
context_section_description: June 3 – Merton Miller, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
  June 10 – Hafez al-Assad, Syrian politician and general, 18th President of Syria (b. 1930)
  June 16 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
  June 18 – Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
  June 19 – Noboru Takeshita, Japanese politician, 46th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1924)
  June 21 – Alan Hovhaness, American composer (b. 1911)
  June 24 – David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917)
  June 27 – Pierre Pflimlin, French politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
  June 29 – Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor (b. 1922)
caption: Hafez al-Assad
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