About the day » Monday May 3, 1999Calender converter

• Anouk Hofman, Stadskanaal
• Pedro Uitdewillegen, Axel

• Eldred Malvern Ridgway (90), Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Maria Langeveld (81), Voorhout
• David van der Teems (88), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Cornelis Blaak (72), Emmen, Nederland
• Bernardus Nicolaas Ockeloen (72), Amsterdam
• Aldert Verburg (68)
• David Hyder Funderburk, Jr (85), Whitmire, Newberry County, South Carolina, United States
• Alida Maria Reukema (88), Groningen
• Ant. Rijnbrand (82), Dirksland, Goeree-Overflakkee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Croes (82), Hasselt, België

• 1990 » Brooks Koepka, American golfer
• 1991 » Samuel Seo, South Korean musician
• 1992 » Aaron Whitchurch, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Ivan Bukavshin, Russian chess player († 2016)
• 1996 » Alex Iwobi, Nigerian football player
• 1996 » Domantas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1996 » Mary Cain, American runner
• 1997 » Desiigner, American rapper
• 1997 » Dwayne Haskins, American football player
• 1997 » Ivana Jorović, Serbian tennis player

• 1996 » Alex Kellner, American baseball player (b. 1924)
• 1996 » Dimitri Fampas, Greek guitarist, composer, and educator (b. 1921)
• 1997 » Narciso Yepes, Spanish guitarist and composer (b. 1927)
• 1997 » Sébastien Enjolras, French race car driver (b. 1976)
• 1998 » Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1999 » Godfrey Evans, English cricketer (b. 1920)
• 1999 » Joe Adcock, American baseball player and manager (b. 1927)
• 1999 » Steve Chiasson, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1967)
• 2000 » Júlia Báthory, Hungarian glass designer (b. 1901)
• 2000 » John Joseph O'Connor, American cardinal (b. 1920)

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.
• March 24 » A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The resulting inferno kills 38 people.
• March 29 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
• May 7 » Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft apparently inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
• May 7 » Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
• August 2 » The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
• October 12 » Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.

The temperature on May 3, 1999 was between 5.3 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (85%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.