About the day » Wednesday May 12, 1999Calender converter

• Tatum Ahrens
• Stephan Eric Laurens Kreischer, Rotterdam

• Cornelis Johannes (Kees) van Hooren (81), Waalwijk
• Wilhelmina Maria Heesen (82), Amsterdam
• Anna Maria Visser (87), Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland
• DNA Match Wilhelmina Maria Heesen (82), Amsterdam
• Elisabeth Henriette Maria Van de Linden (75), Utrecht
• Alphonsus Constantinus De Rese (89), Lubbeek
• Albert Henk Johanneszn. de Jager (40), Stiens, Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Egbertus Hartzuiker (78), 's Gravenmoer
• Abraham Poppe (67), Oost-en West-Souburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aloisius Augustinus Matheus Alexander Gatzen (72), Baarle-Nassau

• 1986 » Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress
• 1986 » Jonathan Orozco, Mexican footballer
• 1987 » Kieron Pollard, Trinidadian cricketer
• 1988 » Marcelo, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 » Eleftheria Eleftheriou, Greek Cypriot singer, musician, and actress
• 1990 » Florent Amodio, French figure skater
• 1992 » Volha Khudzenka, Belarusian kayaker
• 1995 » Irina Khromacheva, Russian tennis player
• 1995 » Luke Benward, American actor and singer
• 1997 » Morgan Lake, English athlete

• 1993 » Zeno Colò, Italian Olympic alpine skier (b.1920)
• 1994 » Erik Erikson, German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1902)
• 1994 » John Smith, Scottish-English lawyer and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1938)
• 1995 » Ștefan Kovács, Romanian football player and coach (b. 1920)
• 1999 » Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American illustrator (b. 1914)
• 2000 » Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
• 2001 » Alexei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144 (b. 1925)
• 2001 » Perry Como, American singer and television host (b. 1912)
• 2003 » Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-American diplomat (b. 1933)
• 2005 » Ömer Kavur, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1944)

• 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.
• April 19 » The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
• May 1 » SpongeBob SquarePants premieres on Nickelodeon.
• July 23 » ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
• September 21 » The Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
• 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 May 12, 1999 was between 10.8 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.