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• Anna Louise Laureen Barten, Duiven, Gelderland, Nederland († 2001)
• Lenard den Hartog, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1999)
• Anouk Wilhelmina Joanna Rutten, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland

• Albert Lenters (64), Bergentheim
• Clara Stene (101)
• Anton Johan Frans van Rijswijk (77), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Agnes Josefine Kleckers (67), St.Tönis
• Annechien Ahlers (87), Winschoten
• Antje de Raad (87), Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Muurling (67)
• Catharina Johanna Maria Beezemer (91), Den Helder, NH, Nederland
• Albertus Christen (76), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aartje Maria Kwint (78), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1990 » Duvashen Padayachee, Australian race car driver
• 1990 » Irina Falconi, American tennis player
• 1990 » Ryan Morgan, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Brianne Jenner, Canadian women's ice hockey player
• 1992 » Victor Oladipo, American basketball player
• 1993 » Jānis Bērziņš, Latvian basketball player
• 1994 » Abi Masatora, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1994 » Joseph Tapine, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1996 » Pelayo Roza, Spanish sprint canoeist
• 1997 » Max King, Australian rugby league player

• 1990 » Emily Remler, American guitarist (b. 1957)
• 1991 » Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer-songwriter and mandolin player (b. 1902)
• 1992 » Gregor Mackenzie, Scottish politician (b. 1927)
• 1993 » France Štiglic, Slovenian film director and screenwriter (b. 1919)
• 1995 » Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist and academic (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Bonnie Lee Bakley, American model, wife of Robert Blake (b. 1956)
• 2004 » David Reimer, Canadian victim of a botched circumcision and transgender reassignment surgery (b. 1965)
• 2005 » David Hackworth, American colonel and journalist (b. 1930)
• 2008 » Fred Baur, American chemist and founder of Pringles (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.
• August 9 » Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
• August 31 » The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
• October 27 » Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.
• October 31 » Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.
• November 2 » Xerox murders: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.
• 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 4, 1999 was between 6.3 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (40%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.