About the day » Sunday May 2, 1999Calender converter

• Calvin Schipper, Zaandijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Kenton Dale Whitaker († 1999)

• Dieuwke EIJSBERG (78), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Josephus Maria PATERNOTTE (79), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Charles Gladney Raney (70), Reston, Fairfax, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Nieuweboer (85), Hengelo, Netherlands
• Anne Krop (74)
• Arie van Ginkel (56)
• Durk Bosgraaf (81)
• Alida Pfaff (76), Woerden
• Dirk van der Plas (77), Katwijk
• Egidius Hubertus Gerardus Prick (95), Maastricht

• 1990 » Kay Panabaker, American actress
• 1991 » Jeong Jinwoon, South Korean actor and singer
• 1992 » María Teresa Torró Flor, Spanish tennis player
• 1992 » Sunmi, South Korean singer
• 1993 » Huang Zitao, Chinese singer and rapper
• 1993 » Isyana Sarasvati, Indonesian singer
• 1993 » Owain Doull, Welsh track cyclist
• 1996 » Cherprang Areekul, Thai singer
• 1996 » Julian Brandt, German footballer
• 1996 » Schuyler Bailar, American swimmer

• 1995 » John Bunting, Australian public servant and diplomat, (b. 1918)
• 1997 » John Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1997 » Paulo Freire, Brazilian philosopher and academic (b. 1921)
• 1998 » Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1998 » hide, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1964)
• 1998 » Justin Fashanu, English footballer (b. 1961)
• 1999 » Douglas Harkness, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1903)
• 1999 » Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
• 2000 » Sundar Popo, Indo-Trinidadian musician (b. 1943)
• 2002 » W. T. Tutte, English-Canadian mathematician and academic (b. 1917)

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. Thijs

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.
• January 3 » The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
• February 4 » Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 41 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
• March 20 » Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California, US.
• November 8 » Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder.
• November 26 » The 7.5 M_w  Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured.
• December 21 » Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216 overshoots the runway at La Aurora International Airport, killing 18.

The temperature on May 2, 1999 was between 7.3 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.