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• Zachary Wayne BOSS († 1999)
• Floor van Leijsen († 2000)

• Betty Jane Nuyen (70), Kalamazoo, Michigan, VS
• Adriaan van Eldijk (73)
• Bernhardus Anthonius van Rooij (84), Delft
• Clara Kleene (80)
• Aubrey L Canter (90), SSDI Last Ben.: Bethesda, Montgomery County, MD
• Brian Jon Kneppe (36)
• Cees Breure (55), Parijs, Frankrijk
• Amy Elizabeth Biggins (96), Naracoorte, South Australia, Australia
• Agnes Anna VANHOVE (85), Marshall,56258,Lyon County,Minnesota,United States
• Alfred Lawrence Dymond (68), Tunkhannock, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, United States

• 1986 » Enzo Amore, American wrestler and rapper
• 1989 » Drew Doughty, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Jesse Sene-Lefao, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1992 » Yui Yokoyama - Japanese idol, model, and actress
• 1993 » AnnaSophia Robb, American actress
• 1993 » Cara Mund, Miss America 2018
• 1993 » Janari Jõesaar, Estonian basketball player
• 1993 » Jordan Obita, English footballer
• 1994 » Conseslus Kipruto, Kenyan runner
• 1994 » Raheem Sterling, English footballer

• 1993 » Yevgeny Minayev, Russian weightlifter (b. 1933)
• 1994 » Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1927)
• 1996 » Howard Rollins, American actor (b. 1950)
• 1996 » Kashiwado Tsuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 47th Yokozuna (b. 1938)
• 1997 » Bob Bell, American clown and actor (b. 1922)
• 1999 » Péter Kuczka, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1923)
• 2001 » Betty Holberton, American computer scientist and programmer (b. 1917)
• 2001 » Mirza Delibašić, Bosnian basketball player and coach (b. 1954)
• 2003 » Rubén González, Cuban pianist (b. 1919)
• 2004 » Dimebag Darrell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1966)

• 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 25 » A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
• April 1 » Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
• September 21 » The Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
• October 5 » The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
• November 25 » A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
• December 21 » The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid, Spain.

The temperature on December 8, 1999 was between 4.6 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.