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• Aimee van Heeringen, Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1999)

• Berendina Oving (91), Chatham, Ontario, Canada
• Caroline Prinses van Auersperg (74), Wenen
• Claude James Barr (80), San Bernardino (San Bernardino County) (California)
• Charles A. Jurasek (94), Lansing, Ingham Co., Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Rosalia Sauer (92)
• Cornelis Petrus Josephus Maria Kustermans (79), Breda
• Anthonie Wilhelm GERBER (65), Ermelo
• Caroline Willemsen (39), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonia Martha (Tonie) Schild (91), Kimba, South Australia, Australia
• Carl William WICK (77), Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten

• 1986 » Everth Cabrera, Nicaraguan baseball player
• 1987 » Craig Noone, English footballer
• 1987 » Gemma Spofforth, English swimmer
• 1987 » Justine Michelle Cain, English actress
• 1988 » Durratun Nashihin Rosli Malaysian rhythmic gymnast
• 1989 » Roman Zozulya, Ukrainian football striker
• 1989 » Ryan Griffin, American football player
• 1992 » Alex Sheedy, Australian basketball player
• 1992 » Danielle Kettlewell, Australian synchronised swimmer
• 1993 » Taylor Gold, American snowboarder

• 1995 » Alan Hull, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
• 1998 » Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Kea Bouman, Dutch tennis player (b. 1903)
• 2000 » Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 2001 » Harrison A. Williams, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1919)
• 2001 » Michael Karoli, German guitarist and songwriter (b. 1948)
• 2002 » Abba Eban, South African-Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1915)
• 2002 » Frank McCarthy, American painter and illustrator (b. 1924)
• 2003 » Arthur Conley, American-Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• 2003 » Surjit Bindrakhia, Indian singer (b. 1962)

• 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 1 » Euro currency is introduced in 11 member nations of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden; Greece later adopts the euro).
• April 23 » NATO bombs the headquarters of Radio Television of Serbia, as part of their aerial campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• May 29 » Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
• August 10 » Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting.
• December 3 » NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
• December 22 » Just after taking off from London Stansted Airport, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury, killing all four people on board.

The temperature on November 17, 1999 was between 1.4 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.