About the day » Friday April 2, 1999Calender converter

• Logan James Maassen († 1999)

• Aaltje Hiemstra (87), Oegstgeest, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Jacobus Stokman (67), Haarlem
• Cesar Peelman (77)
• Alida Dina Hoek (29), Katwijk aan Zee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Caroline Berendina Kok (92), Deventer
• Beverly Jane Cox (72), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
• Antonius C. (Toon) Sondervan (86)
• de Vrueh (90), Alkmaar
• Alle Klompstra (63), Groningen (Groningen)
• Cornelis Johannes Kremers (92), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1986 » Ibrahim Afellay, Dutch footballer
• 1987 » Marc Pugh, English footballer
• 1987 » Pablo Aguilar, Paraguayan footballer
• 1988 » Jesse Plemons, American actor
• 1990 » Miralem Pjanić, Bosnian footballer
• 1990 » Yevgeniya Kanayeva, Russian gymnast
• 1991 » Quavo, American rapper
• 1993 » Keshorn Walcott, Trinidadian javelin thrower
• 1997 » Abdelhak Nouri, Dutch footballer
• 1997 » Dillon Bassett, American race car driver

• 1994 » Betty Furness, American actress, consumer advocate, game show panelist, television journalist and television personality (b. 1916)
• 1994 » Marc Fitch, British historian and philanthropist (b. 1908)
• 1995 » Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese director and producer (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Rob Pilatus, American-German singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
• 2001 » Charles Daudelin, Canadian sculptor and painter (b. 1920)
• 2002 » John R. Pierce, American engineer and author (b. 1910)
• 2002 » Levi Celerio, Filipino composer and songwriter (b. 1910)
• 2003 » Edwin Starr, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
• 2004 » John Argyris, Greek computer scientist, engineer, and academic (b. 1913)

• 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 24 » A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The resulting inferno kills 38 people.
• July 31 » Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon's surface.
• August 7 » The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
• October 31 » Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.
• November 9 » TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.

The temperature on April 2, 1999 was between 8.7 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (84%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.