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• Bassel Westmaas (92), New Jersey/Amerika
• Albertus Dominicus Cornelissen (87), IJmuiden
• Catharina Moed (92), Bemmel (Lingewaard), Gelderland, Nederland
• Alfred Neville Mick Sexton (90), New Zealand
• Allison MacLeod (86), Raynham, Massachusetts
• Allegonda van Asten (83), Gemert-Bakel
• Achille Raoul CAILLIAU (81), Boussu,7300,Hainaut,Wallonie,BELGIQUE
• Berendina van Dalen (84), Hoogeveen
• bassil Westmaas (92), mount dora Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Berendina van Dalen (84), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1992 » Gary Sánchez, Dominican baseball player
• 1993 » Haruka Ishida, Japanese singer and actress
• 1993 » Kostas Stafylidis, Greek footballer
• 1994 » Cauley Woodrow, English footballer
• 1994 » Fumika Shimizu, Japanese actress and model
• 1994 » Tomokaze Yūta, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1995 » Inori Minase, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer
• 1995 » Joe Stimson, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Uladzislau Hancharou, Belarusian trampolinist
• 1998 » Juice Wrld, American rapper († 2019)

• 1995 » Mária Telkes, Hungarian–American biophysicist and chemist (b. 1900)
• 1995 » Robertson Davies, Canadian author, playwright, and critic (b. 1913)
• 1995 » Roxie Roker, American actress (b. 1929)
• 1997 » Michael Hedges, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953)
• 1997 » Shirley Crabtree, English wrestler (b. 1930)
• 1999 » Charlie Byrd, American guitarist (b. 1925)
• 2000 » Gail Fisher, American actress (b. 1935)
• 2002 » Arno Peters, German cartographer and historian (b. 1916)
• 2002 » Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Alan Davidson, British soldier, historian, and author (b. 1924)

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. Rick

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.
• 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 12 » United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred.
• May 3 » The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20mph (484 +/- 32km/h).
• August 2 » The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
• November 12 » The 7.2 M_w  Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people were killed and almost 5,000 were injured.
• December 20 » Macau is handed over to China by Portugal.

The temperature on December 2, 1999 was between 5.5 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.