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• Ryan Roland Oldenburger, Emmen
• Lisa van Zwieten, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Catharina Maria van hal (81), roosendaal
• Cornelis Johannes (Cees) van Engelen (83), Vlijmen
• Alice Josephine (Alice) Vanbrabant (83), Sint-Truiden, België
• Antoon Groen (84), -
• Andreas Michaël van de Nieuwenhof (69), Gemert-Bakel
• Arthur Irwin Engelson (75), Fort Lauderdale, Broward, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Christiaan Klebach (79), Enschede, Gemeente Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Bernardus Everhardus Bouwmeester (64), Apeldoorn
• Christiaan opperman (54), Arnhem
• Beth Graves (93), Jamestown, Chautauqua, New York, Verenigde Staten

• 1989 » Siosia Vave, Australian-Tongan rugby league player
• 1991 » Bastian Baker, Swiss singer, songwriter, and performer
• 1991 » Emre Colak, Turkish footballer
• 1992 » Cate Campbell, Malawian-Australian swimmer
• 1992 » Enes Kanter, Turkish basketball player
• 1992 » Jack Gleeson, Irish actor
• 1993 » Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
• 1996 » Brian Kelly, Australian rugby league player
• 1998 » Jamie Chadwick, English race car driver
• 1998 » Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater

• 1995 » Les Cowie, Australian rugby league player (b. 1925)
• 1996 » Jon Pertwee, English actor, portrayed the Third Doctor (b. 1919)
• 1998 » Robert Normann, Norwegian guitarist (b. 1916)
• 2000 » Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Malik Sealy, American basketball player and actor (b. 1970)
• 2000 » Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1933)
• 2001 » Renato Carosone, Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1920)
• 2002 » Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, biologist, and academic (b. 1941)
• 2005 » Paul Ricœur, French philosopher and academic (b. 1913)
• 2005 » William Seawell, American general (b. 1918)

• 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 4 » Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota, United States.
• March 20 » Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California, US.
• June 12 » Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• August 7 » The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
• November 18 » At Texas A&M University, the Aggie Bonfire collapses killing 12 students and injuring 27 others.
• November 26 » The 7.5 M_w  Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured.

The temperature on May 20, 1999 was between 10.5 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.