About the day » Thursday July 15, 1999Calender converter

• Julie Wartel, Asse, Vlaams-Brabant, België

• Aafke Hiltje Hamstra (89), Lochem, Gelderland, Nederland
• ClaSina Karels Kleijn (87), Scheveningen
• Albertus Johannes Snoek (77), De Ronde Venen, Utrecht, Nederland
• André Antoine Porteman (81)
• Dorothea Hornberg (56)
• Alice Elizabeth Rose (82), fortasse, somewhere in MI
• Cornelis Adrianus Luijendijk (91), Strijen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Bouwina Hovenga (80), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Albertus Holland (93), Owatonna, Iowa, VS
• Clemens Bernardus Steggink, Bundaberg

• 1990 » Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player
• 1991 » Danilo, Brazilian footballer
• 1991 » Derrick Favors, American basketball player
• 1991 » Evgeny Tishchenko, Russian boxer
• 1992 » Hokutōfuji Daiki, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1992 » Tobias Harris, American basketball player
• 1992 » Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter
• 1993 » Håvard Nielsen, Norwegian footballer
• 1993 » Harrison Rhodes, American racing driver
• 1998 » Noah Gragson, American racing driver

• 1992 » Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani journalist and author (b. 1960)
• 1992 » Hammer DeRoburt, Nauruan educator and politician, 1st President of Nauru (b. 1922)
• 1997 » Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, founded Versace (b. 1946)
• 1997 » Justinas Lagunavičius, Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1924)
• 1998 » S. Shanmuganathan, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1960)
• 2000 » Louis Quilico, Canadian opera singer and educator (b. 1925)
• 2001 » C. Balasingham, Sri Lankan lawyer and civil servant (b. 1917)
• 2003 » Elisabeth Welch, American actress and singer (b. 1904)
• 2003 » Roberto Bolaño, Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist (b. 1953)
• 2006 » Robert H. Brooks, American businessman, founder of Hooters and Naturally Fresh, Inc. (b. 1937)

1. Thomas
2. Max
3. Niels
4. Bram
5. Robin
6. Jan
7. Tim
8. Kevin
9. Nick
10. Lars
11. Ruben
12. Sander
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 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 » Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
• June 1 » American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
• October 22 » Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
• 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.
• 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 July 15, 1999 was between 11.1 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.