About the day » Friday October 1, 1999Calender converter

• Sylvan Yannick Paul, Deventer
• Esjé Kager, Oudeschild (Texel, NH) († 1999)
• Peter Robert Boissevain

• Arie Tenwolde (54), Schiedam
• Cornelis van Garderen (79), Lutten
• Cornelia Noppen (79), Noordwijk
• Cornelia Jacoba ZALM, van der (71), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Adriaan Hendrikus van Beek (68)
• Charlotte de Meij (60), Nieuwegein
• Colette Marie Henry DUMOULIN (68), Nimes,30000,Gard,Occitanie,France,France
• Ada den hond (86), Wijk bij Duurstede, Wijk Bij Duurstede, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Carla Zonneveld (46)
• Aaltje Judith Jongman (82), Losser, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1986 » Ricardo Vaz Tê, Portuguese footballer
• 1987 » Hiroki Aiba, Japanese actor and singer
• 1987 » Mitchell Aubusson, Australian rugby league player
• 1989 » Brie Larson, American actress
• 1990 » Albert Prosa, Estonian footballer
• 1990 » Pedro Filipe Mendes, Portuguese footballer
• 1991 » Conor Clifford, Irish footballer
• 1991 » Rain Veideman, Estonian basketball player
• 1992 » Xander Bogaerts, Aruban baseball player
• 1995 » Lauren Hill, American basketball player († 2015)

• 1992 » Petra Kelly, German activist and politician (b. 1947)
• 1994 » Paul Lorenzen, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1915)
• 1997 » Jerome H. Lemelson, American engineer and philanthropist (b. 1923)
• 2002 » Walter Annenberg, American publisher and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1908)
• 2004 » Bruce Palmer, Canadian bass player (b. 1946)
• 2004 » Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)
• 2004 » Robert Vaidlo, Estonian journalist and author (b. 1921)
• 2006 » Fawaz al-Rabeiee, Saudi Arabian terrorist (b. 1979)
• 2006 » Jerald Tanner, American author and activist (b. 1938)
• 2007 » Ronnie Hazlehurst, English conductor and composer (b. 1928)

• 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.
• January 7 » The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
• March 24 » A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The resulting inferno kills 38 people.
• May 3 » Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side resulted into the kargil war.
• November 11 » The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
• November 18 » At Texas A&M University, the Aggie Bonfire collapses killing 12 students and injuring 27 others.

The temperature on October 1, 1999 was between 11.4 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (25%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.