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• Cedrik Storms († 2000)
• Jennifer Joy Hertz, Tilburg
• Jermay Molhuysen, Amsterdam
• Femke Amber Rugenbrink, Almere († 2001)
• NICOLE MARIA THERESIA MAAT, Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Angela Kay Mingee (31), Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Annichje Drees (91), Almelo
• Aleida Petronella Maria Natrop (85), Loenen
• Adriaan Bons (89)
• Aletta Cornelia Amens (86), LEERBROEK (Vijfheerenlanden), Utrecht, Nederland
• Apolonius Jacob Noordam (76), Leidschendam
• Aleida Petronella Maria Natrop (85), Loenen,Apeldoorn,Gelderland,Nederland
• Adriana Wilhelmina van den Bemt (88), Oosterhout
• Adriaan Johannes Maas (84), Vlissingen
• Agine Afina Huisman (91), Doorn

• 1986 » Beau Champion, Australian rugby league player
• 1986 » Thomas Bourgin, French motorcycle racer († 2013)
• 1987 » Owen Franks, New Zealand rugby player
• 1987 » Tommaso Bellazzini, Italian footballer
• 1988 » Mallory Hagan, Miss America 2013
• 1989 » Liis Koger, Estonian painter and poet
• 1992 » Jeff Schlupp, German footballer
• 1994 » Reed Alexander, American actor
• 1996 » Bartosz Kapustka, Polish footballer
• 2002 » Finn Wolfhard, Canadian actor and musician

• 1992 » Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (b. 1934)
• 1994 » Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1995 » Patric Knowles, English actor (b. 1911)
• 1998 » Joe Orlando, Italian-American author and illustrator (b. 1927)
• 2000 » Billy Barty, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2000 » Victor Borge, Danish-American comedian, pianist, and conductor (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Bola Ige, Nigerian lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Oyo State (b. 1930)
• 2004 » P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (b. 1921)
• 2005 » Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Charlie Drake, English actor (b. 1925)

• 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 13 » The last hockey game is played in Maple Leaf Gardens: the Toronto Maple Leafs lose 6–2 to the Chicago Blackhawks.
• February 23 » Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
• April 5 » Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
• May 29 » Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
• November 19 » Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
• December 31 » The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.

The temperature on December 23, 1999 was between 2.8 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.