About the day » Friday October 8, 1999Calender converter

• Austin Jacob Schrock
• Sieta Hannah Luichies, Haarlem
• dave broekhof, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1999)

• Antonius Kouwenhoven (76), Ter Aar (Langeraar)
• Anna Josina Theodora de ROO (63), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Danny L (Jr.) Loete (37), Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Antonius de Jong (86), Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anthonij Pieter (Ton) van Manen (47), Berkel en Rodenijs
• Cornelis Breeweg (70)
• Cornelis Bikker (85), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelis de Jong (99), Sneek
• Clementina Maria (Tine) van Drielen (78), Kampen
• Catharina Maria Nederpelt (85), Driebergen

• 1992 » Lidziya Marozava, Belarusian tennis player
• 1992 » Maria João Koehler, Portuguese tennis player
• 1993 » Barbara Palvin, Hungarian model and actress
• 1993 » Darrell Wallace, Jr., American race car driver
• 1993 » Garbiñe Muguruza, Spanish tennis player
• 1993 » Molly Quinn, American actress and producer
• 1996 » Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spanish tennis player
• 1996 » Sara Takanashi, Japanese ski jumper
• 1997 » Bella Thorne, American actress
• 1999 » Camila Rossi, Brazilian rhythmic gymnast

• 1992 » Willy Brandt, German lawyer and politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1994 » Oscar M. Ruebhausen, American lawyer (b. 1912)
• 1995 » Christopher Keene, American conductor and educator (b. 1946)
• 1997 » Bertrand Goldberg, American architect, designed the Marina City Building (b. 1913)
• 1999 » John McLendon, American basketball player and coach (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Charlotte Lamb, English author (b. 1937)
• 2001 » Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
• 2002 » Phyllis Calvert, English actress (b. 1915)
• 2004 » James Chace, American historian and author (b. 1931)

• 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 12 » Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
• March 20 » Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California, US.
• April 19 » The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
• July 1 » The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh. In Wales, the powers of the Welsh Secretary are transferred to the National Assembly.
• October 5 » The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
• November 9 » TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.

The temperature on October 8, 1999 was between 10.1 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.