About the day » Saturday February 6, 1999Calender converter

• Ivo van den Broek, Rotterdam

• Cornelia Gijsberta Colder (91), Apeldoorn (Gld), Nederland
• Cornelis (Kees) Hansen (83), Purmerend
• Catharina Anna Apolonia Vinkestijn (88), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Delia Ramaker (92)
• Aaltje HAEGENS (81)
• Alexander Pieter van der Weiden (40), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Andries NIEUWLAND (91), Leeuwarden
• Aaltje JANKEN (86), Maastricht
• Anna Clara de Geus (89), Den Haag,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnold Edward Preston (56), Portage, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten

• 1991 » Eva Wacanno, Dutch tennis player
• 1991 » Fei Yu, Chinese footballer
• 1991 » Ida Njåtun, Norwegian speed skater
• 1991 » Tobias Eisenbauer, Austrian ice dancer
• 1992 » Víctor Mañón, Mexican footballer
• 1993 » Teresa Scanlan, Miss America 2011
• 1993 » Tinashe, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1994 » Charlie Heaton, British actor and musician
• 1995 » Leon Goretzka, German footballer
• 1995 » Sam McQueen, English footballer

• 1994 » Jack Kirby, American author and illustrator (b. 1917)
• 1994 » Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1995 » James Merrill, American poet and playwright (b. 1926)
• 1998 » Falco, Austrian pop-rock musician (b. 1957)
• 1999 » Don Dunstan, Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Premier of South Australia (b. 1926)
• 1999 » Jimmy Roberts, American tenor (b. 1924)
• 2000 » Phil Walters, American race car driver (b. 1916)
• 2001 » Filemon Lagman, Filipino theoretician and activist (b. 1953)
• 2002 » Max Perutz, Austrian-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
• 2004 » Gerald Bouey, Canadian lieutenant and economist (b. 1920)

1. Thomas
2. Max
3. Niels
4. Bram
5. Robin
6. Jan
7. Tim
8. Kevin
9. Nick
10. Lars
11. Ruben
12. Sander
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 12 » United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred.
• May 28 » In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
• 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.
• August 15 » Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
• October 5 » The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.
• 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 February 6, 1999 was between 1.3 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.