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• Anouk van Sunten, Tilburg
• Maraisa Margaretha(Maraisa) Schipper, Hardenberg,Gemeente Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland († 1999)

• Antonia Jansen (90), Tiel
• Antonia Jansen (90), Tiel
• Cornelia van der Boon (89), Katwijk
• Barbara Clasina Lamphen (69), Laren N.H.
• Alfons Aerts (78), Geel (B), België
• Antonia, Maria van Tiggelen (77), Breda
• Bertha Hendrika van Wijk (70), Haarlem
• Cornelis Petrus Tilburgs (81), Bergeijk
• Charles BLUM (77)
• Dien Ebrecht (82)

• 1990 » Emily Scarratt, English rugby union player
• 1991 » Aristidis Soiledis, Greek footballer
• 1991 » Nam Woo-hyun, South Korean singer and actor with the boy band Infinite.
• 1991 » Roberto Soriano, Italian footballer
• 1992 » Bruno Martins Indi, Portuguese-Dutch footballer
• 1992 » Carl Jenkinson, English-Finnish footballer
• 1994 » Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Turkish footballer
• 1994 » Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1995 » Joshua Kimmich, German footballer
• 1996 » Kenedy, Brazilian footballer

• 1996 » Del Ennis, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 1997 » Corey Scott, American motorcycle stunt rider (b. 1968)
• 1998 » Enoch Powell, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Health (b. 1912)
• 1998 » Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1998 » Julian Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
• 1999 » Iris Murdoch, Irish-born British novelist and philosopher (b. 1919)
• 2000 » Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
• 2000 » Sid Abel, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Ivo Caprino, Norwegian director and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 2002 » Ong Teng Cheong, Singaporean architect and politician, 5th President of Singapore (b. 1936)

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.
• April 20 » Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
• April 23 » NATO bombs the headquarters of Radio Television of Serbia, as part of their aerial campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• July 10 » In women's association football, the United States defeated China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. The final was watched by 90,185 spectators, which set a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.
• September 7 » The 6.0 M_w  Athens earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 143, injuring 800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless.
• November 30 » Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
• December 14 » Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.

The temperature on February 8, 1999 was between -4.1 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain during 6.7 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.