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• Dirk Jacob Vlastuin, Ede († 2002)

• Adrianus LEEUW van WEENEN, de (60), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Dirven (94), 's-Gravenmoer
• Agatha van Ast (68), Oss
• Anje Bogema (82), Baarn
• Anna Hendrika JACOBS (81), Ede
• Antonius Adrianus Cornelis Geerts (66), Tilburg
• Arjen Gerrit Kiestra (30), Leeuwarden
• André de Man (74), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bronne Mulder (84)
• Alida Hoek (96), Katwijk aan Zee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1988 » Lotte Friis, Danish swimmer
• 1989 » Maxime Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian skier
• 1990 » Tariq Sims, Australian-Fijian rugby league player
• 1991 » Logan Ryan, American football player
• 1992 » Avan Jogia, Canadian actor
• 1992 » Kyle Feldt, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 » Mitchell Frei, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Niclas Füllkrug, German footballer
• 1995 » André Burakovsky, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1995 » Mario Pašalić, Croatian footballer

• 1994 » Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1934)
• 1995 » David Wayne, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1995 » J. William Fulbright, American lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
• 1998 » Maurice Schumann, French journalist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)
• 2001 » Herbert A. Simon, American political scientist, economist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2002 » Isabelle Holland, Swiss-American author (b. 1920)
• 2002 » Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (b. 1930)
• 2003 » Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, Japanese-Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
• 2004 » Claude Ryan, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1925)
• 2005 » Robert Kearns, American engineer, invented the windscreen wiper (b. 1927)

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. Ilse
11. Amber
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.
• 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.
• May 28 » In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
• June 12 » Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• October 12 » Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
• November 30 » In Seattle, United States, demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
• December 31 » The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.

The temperature on February 9, 1999 was between -4.2 °C and -0.2 °C and averaged -2.5 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.