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• Ross Allan Bakker, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa († 1999)
• Loes Duivenvoorden, Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Elza Pille (85), Sint-Laureins, Belgium
• Anna Johanna Antonia Maria Pulles (81), Arnhem,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bernhard Arnold Nieboer (82), fremont, Verenigde Staten
• Clasina Ouwehand (83), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Bernardus Sibe Miggelbrink (52), denekamp
• Eugeen De Maeijer (77), Aalst, OVL.BE
• Antonie Boom (88), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Andrew van Veldhuizen (93), Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa
• Elizabeth Winifred Trego (82), Lima, Allen Co.Ohio
• Aaltje Rikste Werkman (88)

• 1987 » Yasser Corona, Mexican footballer
• 1987 » Yevhen Khacheridi, Ukrainian-Greek footballer
• 1988 » Greg Hardy, American football player
• 1989 » Felipe Kitadai, Brazilian martial artist
• 1990 » Simone Pizzuti, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Soulja Boy, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1993 » Cher Lloyd, English singer-songwriter
• 1993 » Harry Kane, English footballer
• 1993 » Moses Odubajo, English footballer
• 1995 » Josh Addo-Carr, Australian rugby league player

• 1996 » Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (b. 1920)
• 1997 » Seni Pramoj, Thai lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1905)
• 1998 » Consalvo Sanesi, Italian race car driver (b. 1911)
• 1998 » Lenny McLean, English boxer, actor, and author (b. 1949)
• 1998 » Zbigniew Herbert, Polish poet and author (b. 1924)
• 1999 » Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2000 » Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi poet, author, and critic (b. 1943)
• 2002 » Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)

• 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.
• March 23 » Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
• March 24 » A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The resulting inferno kills 38 people.
• June 1 » American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
• July 26 » Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
• August 15 » Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
• October 12 » The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.

The temperature on July 28, 1999 was between 11.3 °C and 25.8 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 14.2 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.