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• Robbie van de Gevel, Tilburg
• Jarno Leon van Hespen, Spijkenisse († 2010)
• Robin Theodora Johanna Rovers, Nuenen en Gerwen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Aldegonda Maria (Gon) Clemensd XX* Melker (78), Egmond aan de Hoef
• Engeltje Paulina (Lien) Broekema (77), Norg, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Elisabeth Ludovica Verbinnen. (89), Lier, 2500, Antwerpen, Belgium
• CORNELIA TANNETJE JACOBA LINDENBERG (69), GOES
• Ben Dassen (45), Susterseel (D), Duitsland
• Dik van Heun (70), ......
• Anne Veldhouse (85)
• Catharina van Dun (88)
• Antje de Vries (79), Zaandijk
• Baltus Baalman (90), Wedde, Groningen, Netherlands

• 1989 » Trent Merrin, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Sebastián Coates, Uruguayan footballer
• 1991 » Lay, Chinese singer-songwriter and actor
• 1992 » Mookie Betts, American baseball player
• 1995 » Bram van Vlerken, Dutch professional football player
• 1995 » Lloyd Jones, English professional footballer
• 1995 » Lyndon Dykes, Australian professional footballer
• 1995 » Mathias Dyngeland, Norwegian footballer
• 1998 » Trent Alexander-Arnold, English professional footballer
• 2001 » Princess Senate Seeiso, Princess of Lesotho

• 1995 » Ivan Hutchinson, Australian film critic and author (b. 1928)
• 1995 » Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian-Czech-American mathematician, attendant of the Vienna Circle (b. 1906)
• 1996 » Lou Lichtveld, Surinamese-Dutch author, playwright, and politician (b. 1903)
• 1998 » Cees de Vreugd, Dutch strongman and weightlifter (b. 1952)
• 2001 » Christopher Adams, English-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1955)
• 2001 » Herblock, American cartoonist and author (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Roger Gaudry, Canadian chemist and businessman (b. 1913)
• 2002 » Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
• 2003 » Arthur Berger, American composer and educator (b. 1912)
• 2003 » Izzy Asper, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1932)

• 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.
• 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.
• April 1 » Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
• August 15 » Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
• November 2 » Xerox murders: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.
• December 14 » Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.
• December 31 » The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.

The temperature on October 7, 1999 was between 4.4 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.