About the day » Monday February 15, 1999Calender converter

• Wendy Schaap

• Adrianus Johannes Duijster (78), wijk en aalburg (noordbrabant)
• Abelina Lutgerdina Koopman (91), Den Helder
• Aaltje Schippers (76), Zaandam
• Antoinette van Paassen (80), Ridderkerk,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• "Marie" Maria Lucia Wilhelmina Derksen (93), Zevenaar
• Alfred ROOT (81), Michigan U.S.A
• Aijolt Hindrik Helmantel (93), Westeremden, Stedum
• Adrianus Johannes van de Corput (80), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agnes Elisabeth Bernauer (75), Dublin, Irlande
• Aaltje (Alie) Schippers (76), Zaandam, Nederland

• 1986 » Johnny Cueto, Dominican baseball player
• 1986 » Valeri Bojinov, Bulgarian footballer
• 1987 » Jarrod Sammut, Australian rugby league player
• 1988 » Hironori Kusano, Japanese singer and actor
• 1988 » Jarryd Hayne, Australian rugby league player and football player
• 1988 » Rui Patrício, Portuguese footballer
• 1988 » Tim Mannah, Australian-born Lebanese rugby league player
• 1990 » Charles Pic, French race car driver
• 1991 » Ángel Sepúlveda, Mexican footballer
• 1993 » Ravi, South Korean rapper

• 1996 » McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1998 » Martha Gellhorn, American journalist and author (b. 1908)
• 1999 » Big L, American rapper (b. 1974)
• 1999 » Henry Way Kendall, American physicist and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
• 2000 » Angus MacLean, Canadian commander and politician, 25th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1914)
• 2002 » Howard K. Smith, American journalist and actor (b. 1914)
• 2002 » Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
• 2004 » Jens Evensen, Norwegian lawyer, judge, and politician, Norwegian Minister of Trade (b. 1917)
• 2005 » Pierre Bachelet, French singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
• 2005 » Samuel T. Francis, American historian and journalist (b. 1947)

• 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 3 » The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
• May 6 » The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
• 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 26 » Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
• December 3 » NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
• December 18 » NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.

The temperature on February 15, 1999 was between -0.3 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.