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• Elmo "Elmer" Clovis Martin (89), San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Aleida Klasina Swart (81), Tilburg
• cyrillus camillus debel (89)
• Charles comte Thomas de Pange (77)
• Cornelis de JONG (91), Voorburg (Z-H)
• Adriana Margaretha van RAFFE (88)
• Cornelia KLAUI (83), Weesp (N-H)
• Beverly Elaine Cline (76), Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States
• Adriaan van Dijk (91)
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• 1987 » Kostas Giannoulis, Greek footballer
• 1988 » Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer
• 1990 » Denise Hannema, Dutch cricketer
• 1991 » Choi Minho, Korean singer and actor
• 1993 » Laura Smulders, Dutch cyclist
• 1993 » Mark McMorris, Canadian snowboarder
• 1995 » McKayla Maroney, American gymnast
• 1996 » MyKayla Skinner, American gymnast
• 1999 » Riley Clemmons, American Christian musician
• 2000 » Diāna Ņikitina, Latvian figure skater

• 1996 » Alain Poher, French lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
• 1996 » Diana Morgan, Welsh playwright and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1996 » Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Patty Donahue, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 1998 » Archie Moore, American boxer and actor (b. 1913)
• 1998 » Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1948)
• 2001 » Michael Carver, Baron Carver, English field marshal (b. 1915)
• 2002 » Ian Hornak, American painter and sculptor (b. 1944)
• 2002 » Mary Hansen, Australian singer and guitarist (b. 1966)
• 2002 » Stan Rice, American painter and poet (b. 1942)

1. Thomas
2. Max
3. Niels
4. Bram
5. Robin
6. Jan
7. Tim
8. Kevin
9. Nick
10. Lars
11. Sander
12. Ruben
13. Jesse
14. Matthijs
15. Rick
16. Thijs

1. Sanne
2. Emma
3. Julia
4. Anna
5. Lisa
6. Laura
7. Lotte
8. Sophie
9. Anne
10. Amber
11. Maria
12. Ilse
13. Kim
14. Fleur
15. Anouk
16. Iris

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
• February 4 » Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
• March 21 » Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
• April 1 » Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
• April 14 » A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
• May 29 » Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
• November 12 » The 7.2 M_w  Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people were killed and almost 5,000 were injured.

The temperature on December 9, 1999 was between 5.4 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.