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• Kenton Dale Whitaker († 1999)
• Calvin Schipper, Zaandijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Armindo Gonçalves Torres (83), Porto Ferreira, São Paulo, Brasil
• Egidius Hubertus Gerardus (Jules) PRICK (95), Maastricht (NL/LI)
• Charles Marion Rinehart (89)
• Anne Jans Visser (64), Wommels, Hennaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Edward Frank Buss (74), Ìowa
• Arie Zwitser (75), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Krop (74)
• Anna Barbara Hubertina van de Veerdonk (77), Heerlen
• Billy Dwight Wellmon (74)
• Aaltje WESTERIK (85)

• 1990 » Kay Panabaker, American actress
• 1991 » Jeong Jinwoon, South Korean actor and singer
• 1992 » María Teresa Torró Flor, Spanish tennis player
• 1992 » Sunmi, South Korean singer
• 1993 » Huang Zitao, Chinese singer and rapper
• 1993 » Isyana Sarasvati, Indonesian singer
• 1993 » Owain Doull, Welsh track cyclist
• 1996 » Cherprang Areekul, Thai singer
• 1996 » Julian Brandt, German footballer
• 1996 » Schuyler Bailar, American swimmer

• 1995 » John Bunting, Australian public servant and diplomat, (b. 1918)
• 1997 » John Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1997 » Paulo Freire, Brazilian philosopher and academic (b. 1921)
• 1998 » Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1998 » hide, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1964)
• 1998 » Justin Fashanu, English footballer (b. 1961)
• 1999 » Douglas Harkness, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1903)
• 1999 » Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
• 2000 » Sundar Popo, Indo-Trinidadian musician (b. 1943)
• 2002 » W. T. Tutte, English-Canadian mathematician and academic (b. 1917)

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. Maria
11. Ilse
12. Kim
13. Amber
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 7 » The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
• August 10 » Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting.
• October 27 » Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.
• November 11 » The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
• November 30 » British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
• December 14 » Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.

The temperature on May 2, 1999 was between 7.3 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.