About the day » Thursday July 29, 1999Calender converter

• Shannon J Swalve († 1999)

• Anthonia Helderop (71), Vlaardingen
• Adriana Cornelia Wirken (77), Tilburg
• Dagmar Olga Adina Lunden (77), Västra Vingåker, Södermanland
• Dirk Jan Jozef Roelofs (28), Geel
• Daniel Petrus Martina Sleven (88)
• Amelia Maria Leonia Schurmans (81), Sint-Truiden, België
• Alberdina Meijerink (82), Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland
• cornelia maria schippers (83), Geertruidenberg
• Cornelis Johannes Waltherus Coolen (79), Tilburg
• Anna Cornelia Verhaard (93), Sprundel, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

• 1985 » Besart Berisha, Albanian footballer
• 1985 » Okinoumi Ayumi, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1985 » Simon Santoso, Indonesian badminton player
• 1988 » Tarjei Bø, Norwegian biathlete
• 1989 » Grit Šadeiko, Estonian heptathlete
• 1991 » Dale Copley, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Irakli Logua, Russian footballer
• 1992 » Karen Torrez, Bolivian swimmer
• 1993 » Nicole Melichar, American tennis player
• 1994 » Liam O'Brien, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1994 » Dorothy Hodgkin, Egyptian-English biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1994 » John Britton, American physician (b. 1925)
• 1995 » Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1917)
• 1996 » Jason Thirsk, American singer and bass player (b. 1967)
• 1996 » Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1920)
• 1996 » Ric Nordman, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1919)
• 1998 » Jerome Robbins, American director, producer, and choreographer (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Edward Gierek, Polish soldier and politician (b. 1913)
• 2001 » Wau Holland, German computer scientist, co-founded Chaos Computer Club (b. 1951)
• 2003 » Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leonean soldier, founded the Revolutionary United Front (b. 1937)

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. Amber
11. Ilse
12. Maria
13. Kim
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.
• May 7 » Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft apparently inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
• October 26 » Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
• October 27 » Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.
• December 18 » NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
• December 21 » Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216 overshoots the runway at La Aurora International Airport, killing 18.
• December 31 » The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.

The temperature on July 29, 1999 was between 12.2 °C and 28.0 °C and averaged 21.6 °C. There was 14.4 hours of sunshine (92%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.