About the day » Wednesday April 21, 1999Calender converter

• Ilse van der Pol, Drachten († 1999)
• Anne Healy, Manhattan (New York)
• Arend Kramer († 2018)
• Lydia Grace Smits, Hammond, IN

• Charlie DYKSTRA (93), Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States of America
• André René Camiel Vanwildemersch (87), Kortemark,8610,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Bernice (Bea) CHINNECK (89), Erie Erie County Pennsylvannia U.S.A
• Agatha C Perdue (85)
• Clarence Edward George Leibach (93), Cuba, Crawford, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Albert WILLEMS (82), Duffel, Antwerpen, België
• Arie Scheiberliech (82), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Cornelis van den Dries (83), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna van Dorland (90), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Petrus Kokke (73), Roosendaal,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1988 » Jencarlos Canela, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1988 » Pedro Mosquera, Spanish footballer
• 1988 » Ricky Berens, American swimmer
• 1989 » Carlos Muñoz, Chilean footballer
• 1989 » Tatyana McFadden, Russian-American sprinter and skier
• 1990 » Aleksandar Prijović, Swiss-born Serbian footballer
• 1992 » Isco, Spanish footballer
• 1992 » Joc Pederson, American baseball player
• 1992 » Rene Santos, Brazilian footballer
• 1994 » Mitchell Weiser, German footballer

• 1996 » Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1925)
• 1996 » Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen general and politician, 1st President of Ichkeria (b. 1944)
• 1996 » Jimmy Snyder, American sportscaster (b. 1919)
• 1996 » Zora Arkus-Duntov, Belgian-born American engineer and race car driver (b. 1909)
• 1998 » Jean-François Lyotard, French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1924)
• 1999 » Buddy Rogers, American actor (b. 1904)
• 2003 » Nina Simone, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and activist (b. 1933)
• 2004 » Mary McGrory, American journalist (b. 1918)
• 2005 » Gerry Marshall, English race car driver and journalist (b. 1941)
• 2006 » Johnny Checketts, New Zealand commander and pilot (b. 1912)

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

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

• 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 19 » British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
• May 29 » Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
• 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.
• December 2 » The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive following the Good Friday Agreement.
• December 22 » Just after taking off from London Stansted Airport, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury, killing all four people on board.
• December 24 » Indian Airlines Flight 814 is hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India. The aircraft landed at Kandahar in Afghanistan. The incident ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (one passenger is killed).

The temperature on April 21, 1999 was between 9.3 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 10.5 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.