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• Catharina Antonia Adriana van Neerven (79), Geldrop
• Berendina Jennigje ter Horst (81), Hengelo
• Adrianus Traa (90), Soest, Utrecht, Nederland
• Christina HOEVERS (88), Amsterdam Noord-Holland Netherlands
• Adrianus Rutten (70), Vught,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annigje van de Streek (80), Eerbeek (Brummen), Gld, NL
• Anna Maria Jansens (70), Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Catherine Ann Socki Marinez (46), Oak Lawn, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Elisabeth Anna C. Warmenhoven (48)
• Dina Geertruida Cornelia de Vries (94), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

• 1986 » Ben Griffin, Australian footballer
• 1987 » Hatem Ben Arfa, French footballer
• 1987 » Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1988 » Larry Asante, American football player
• 1991 » Michele Rigione, Italian footballer
• 1994 » Chase Kalisz, American swimmer
• 1994 » Jordan Pickford, English footballer
• 1995 » Aboubakar Kamara, French footballer, forward
• 1995 » Jerome Binnom-Williams, English footballer
• 1996 » Liam Donnelly, Northern Irish footballer

• 1993 » Carlo Mazzarella, Italian actor and journalist (b. 1919)
• 1993 » J. Merrill Knapp, American musicologist (b. 1914)
• 1993 » Martti Larni, Finnish writer (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Tony Harris, South African cricketer (b. 1916)
• 1997 » Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 1999 » Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (b. 1918)
• 1999 » Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2000 » Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
• 2001 » Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 2004 » Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)

• 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 19 » British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
• March 12 » Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
• 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.
• 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.
• September 7 » The 6.0 M_w  Athens earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 143, injuring 800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless.
• November 25 » A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.

The temperature on March 7, 1999 was between 2.8 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.