About the day » Thursday February 4, 1999Calender converter

• Eduardus Adrianus van Dijck, Schilde

• Cornelia Catharina Verschueren (74), Breda
• Cornelis Faase (83), Middelburg, Nederland
• August BEX (76), Hasselt (B)
• ALBERT KATERBERG (89)
• Cato van Eijk (89), Weert,, Limburg, Nederland
• Ans Roepman (45), Utrecht
• Charles Todd Hurley (75)
• Cornelia Maria Poissonier (95), Retranchement, Zeeland, NL
• Alice van Otterloo (85), Hudsonville, Ottawa County, Michigan
• Darlene Huckabee (85), Highland, San Bernardino County, California

• 1983 » Lee Stempniak, American ice hockey player
• 1984 » Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer
• 1984 » Sandeep Acharya, Indian singer († 2013)
• 1986 » Mahmudullah Riyad, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1986 » Maximilian Götz, German race car driver
• 1987 » Darren O'Dea, Irish footballer
• 1987 » Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player
• 1988 » Carly Patterson, American gymnast and singer
• 1993 » Bae Noo-ri, South Korean actress
• 1998 » Maximilian Wöber, Austrian footballer

• 1992 » John Dehner, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1995 » Patricia Highsmith, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1921)
• 2000 » Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1908)
• 2002 » Count Sigvard Bernadotte of Wisborg (b. 1907)
• 2003 » Benyoucef Benkhedda, Algerian pharmacist and politician (b. 1920)
• 2005 » Ossie Davis, American actor, director, and playwright (b. 1917)
• 2006 » Betty Friedan, American author and activist (b. 1921)
• 2007 » Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (b. 1934)
• 2007 » Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian-English poet and translator (b. 1959)
• 2007 » José Carlos Bauer, Brazilian footballer and manager (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.
• January 1 » Euro currency is introduced in 11 member nations of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden; Greece later adopts the euro).
• January 3 » The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
• March 24 » A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The resulting inferno kills 38 people.
• April 20 » Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
• May 24 » The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
• August 10 » Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting.

The temperature on February 4, 1999 was between 7.6 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.