About the day » Saturday December 25, 1999Calender converter

• Beau Meenhorst, meppel

• Allegonda Helena Schoonens (83), Capelle aan de IJssel
• Bauke Dikken (78), Vollenhove, Nederland
• Anna Maria Geertruda Verstraaten (70)
• Alida Petronella Duijn (94), Castricum, Nederland
• Alberta Boer (91), Hillegersberg, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berend van 't Slot (92), Horst
• Adriana Johanna Maria Handstede (92), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alloysius van Loosdrecht (78), Loon op Zand
• Aart van de Streek (69), Oldebroek, Nederland
• Aartje van Rijssen (91), Apeldoron

• 1984 » Alastair Cook, English cricketer
• 1984 » Chris Cahill, Samoan footballer
• 1985 » Martin Mathathi, Kenyan runner
• 1985 » Rusev, Bulgarian-American professional wrestler
• 1987 » Ceyhun Gülselam, Turkish footballer
• 1987 » Demaryius Thomas, American football player
• 1988 » Eric Gordon, American basketball player
• 1988 » Joãozinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 » Lukas Hinds-Johnson, German rugby player
• 1992 » Mitakeumi Hisashi, Japanese sumo wrestler

• 1995 » Chang Kee-ryo, Korean surgeon (b. 1914)
• 1995 » Dean Martin, American singer and actor (b. 1917)
• 1995 » Emmanuel Levinas, Lithuanian-French philosopher and academic (b. 1906)
• 1996 » Bill Hewitt, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1928)
• 1997 » Anatoli Boukreev, Kazakh mountaineer and explorer (b. 1958)
• 1997 » Denver Pyle, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2000 » Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1939)
• 2000 » Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher and academic (b. 1908)
• 2001 » Alfred A. Tomatis, French otolaryngologist and academic (b. 1920)
• 2003 » Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (b. 1929)

1. Thomas
2. Max
3. Niels
4. Bram
5. Robin
6. Jan
7. Tim
8. Kevin
9. Nick
10. Lars
11. Sander
12. Ruben
13. Jesse
14. Matthijs
15. Rick
16. Tom

1. Sanne
2. Emma
3. Julia
4. Anna
5. Lisa
6. Laura
7. Lotte
8. Sophie
9. Anne
10. Ilse
11. Amber
12. Maria
13. Kim
14. Fleur
15. Anouk
16. Iris

• 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.
• April 1 » Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
• May 7 » Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft apparently inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
• July 23 » Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
• October 5 » The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
• November 18 » At Texas A&M University, the Aggie Bonfire collapses killing 12 students and injuring 27 others.
• December 24 » Indian Airlines Flight 814 is hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India. The aircraft landed at Kandahar in Afghanistan. The incident ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (one passenger is killed).

The temperature on December 25, 1999 was between 4.5 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.