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• James (Jimmy) Joseph Allen III, Hinsdale, IL
• Tirza de Vries

• Antoine ESTRELLA (78), Brest, FRANCE
• Anna Margaretha Pieper (76), Slagharen
• Andries Arie Vreugdenhil (90), 's-Gravenzande
• Antoine MALLARD (17), Erne Calvados
• Adriana Maria (Janie) ROSKAM (78), Wieringerwerf, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Afra Jong (52)
• Antonia Maria Hulsman (82), Rijssen
• Anje Fikkers (77), Australia
• Antonius Gerardus Hendriks (81), Nijmegen
• Alvin ONeal Bankhead [Ob] (70), Columbia,Richland County,S. C

• 1990 » Tadeja Majerič, Slovenian tennis player
• 1991 » António Félix da Costa, Portuguese race car driver
• 1991 » Cédric Soares, Portuguese footballer
• 1992 » Holly Earl, British actress
• 1992 » Tyler Randell, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Anna Karnaukh, Russian water polo player
• 1993 » Ilnur Alshin, Russian football player
• 1993 » Pablo Marí, Spanish football player
• 1994 » Alex Harris, Scottish footballer
• 1994 » Can Aktav, Turkish football player

• 1997 » Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1961)
• 1997 » Dodi Fayed, Egyptian film producer (b. 1955)
• 2000 » Dolores Moore, American baseball player and educator (b. 1932)
• 2000 » Lucille Fletcher, American screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 2002 » Farhad Mehrad, Persian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pianist (b. 1944)
• 2002 » George Porter, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
• 2002 » Lionel Hampton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1908)
• 2005 » Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 2006 » Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)
• 2006 » Tom Delaney, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1911)

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. 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 11 » Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune's orbit again until 2231.
• April 18 » Wayne Gretzky, the National Hockey League's all-time points scorer, plays his final game at Madison Square Garden as a teammate of the New York Rangers in a 2-1 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Gretzky recorded his final career point, an assist, bringing his career point total to 2,857.
• May 2 » Panamanian general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
• August 7 » The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
• September 14 » Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
• November 25 » A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.

The temperature on August 31, 1999 was between 10.6 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.