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• Manoek Voogt

• Antonetta Elisabeth Botzel (94), Loosdrecht
• Aaltinus Lassche (76), Emmen
• Adriana Bastet (85)
• Albertus Andreas (Bertus) Mulder (78)
• Armand SUY (70), Beveren-Waas
• Clifford Charles HEPBURN (76)
• Clara E (90), Stewartsville, DeKalb County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Hartog (97), St. Maartensdijk
• Annetje Koffeman (82)
• Bertha De Kerte (96), Wervik, WVL, B

• 1988 » Indrek Kajupank, Estonian basketball player
• 1988 » Scott Laird, English footballer
• 1989 » Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, French footballer
• 1990 » Jordan Eberle, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Lee Jong-hyun, Korean guitarist
• 1990 » Stella Maxwell, New Zealand model
• 1993 » Jeremy Hawkins, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1993 » Tomáš Kalas, Czech international footballer
• 1996 » Birdy, English singer-songwriter
• 1997 » Ousmane Dembélé, French footballer

• 1991 » Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Malian ethnologist and author (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Andreas Floer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1956)
• 1993 » Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese poet and diplomat (b. 1933)
• 1994 » Gilbert Roland, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1995 » Eric Porter, English actor (b. 1928)
• 1996 » Charles B. Fulton, American lawyer and judge (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Earl Manigault, American basketball player (b. 1944)
• 1998 » Naim Talu, Turkish economist, banker, politician, 15th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1919)
• 2003 » June Carter Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (b. 1929)
• 2006 » Nizar Abdul Zahra, Iraqi footballer (b. 1961)

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. Tom

1. Sanne
2. Emma
3. Julia
4. Anna
5. Lisa
6. Laura
7. Lotte
8. Sophie
9. Anne
10. Amber
11. Ilse
12. Maria
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.
• January 3 » The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
• February 13 » The last hockey game is played in Maple Leaf Gardens: the Toronto Maple Leafs lose 6–2 to the Chicago Blackhawks.
• October 22 » Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
• October 31 » EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Nantucket, killing all 217 people on board.
• November 25 » A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
• December 26 » The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.

The temperature on May 15, 1999 was between 7.5 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.