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• Maud Marionne Peter Jan Collijn, Meerssen
• Tycho Peter Egberink († 2017)
• Antonia Josephina Catharina Maria van Oers, Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Bernhardina Gerarda Vieberink (74), Gendringen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Taekes Feenstra (89), Zwaagwesteinde
• Arnoldus Petrus van den Broek (87), Bergen op Zoom, Nederland
• Alice Margaret Barwick Goodrich (86), Lakeland, Polk County, Florida
• Bareld Jonker (79)
• Adrianus Henricus Antonius van Tuijl (79), Waalwijk,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bertha Lurleen Carter (88), Mount Vernon, Knox, Ohio, United States
• Adriana Lambrechtsen (83), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardina Vieberink (74)
• Albrecht Jozef Maria van Dijck (75), Deurne (België)

• 1986 » Mathieu Razanakolona, Canadian skier
• 1988 » Rob Kwiet, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Nacer Chadli, Belgian footballer
• 1990 » Ima Bohush, Belarusian tennis player
• 1994 » Laremy Tunsil, American football player
• 1994 » Laura Pigossi, Brazilian tennis player
• 1995 » Kristaps Porziņģis, Latvian basketball player
• 1996 » Keston Hiura, American baseball player
• 1996 » Simone Manuel, American swimmer
• 1999 » Mark Lee, Korean-Canadian singer

• 1996 » Michel Debré, French lawyer and politician, 150th Prime Minister of France (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian general and politician, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)
• 1996 » Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1917)
• 1997 » Fela Kuti, Nigerian singer-songwriter and activist (b. 1938)
• 1997 » William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1914)
• 1998 » Shari Lewis, American television host and puppeteer (b. 1933)
• 1999 » Willie Morris, American writer (b. 1934)
• 2003 » Peter Safar, Austrian-American physician and academic (b. 1924)
• 2004 » Ferenc Berényi, Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1929)
• 2004 » François Craenhals, Belgian illustrator (b. 1926)

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 22 » Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
• February 13 » The last hockey game is played in Maple Leaf Gardens: the Toronto Maple Leafs lose 6–2 to the Chicago Blackhawks.
• April 18 » Wayne Gretzky, the National Hockey League's all-time points scorer, plays his final game at Madison Square Garden as a teammate of the New York Rangers in a 2-1 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Gretzky recorded his final career point, an assist, bringing his career point total to 2,857.
• May 2 » Panamanian general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
• November 30 » British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
• November 30 » Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.

The temperature on August 2, 1999 was between 14.2 °C and 31.4 °C and averaged 23.8 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (85%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.