About the day » Tuesday August 10, 1999Calender converter

• Alfred jellema (42)
• Delina Hortence Mathilde Baert (75), Weert
• Biethje de Graaf (86), Spakenburg
• Carl E. WILLIAMS (59)
• Anthony Stanislas Radziwill (40), New York City
• Adriana Otte (82), Steenbergen
• Arentje Teune (74), Oldebroek, Gld. Nederland
• Aaltje Sellis (54), Hattemerbroek, Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alida Hazenoot (90), Warmond
• Bridget Doherty (89), Foxhall, Donegal

• 1991 » Marcus Foligno, American-Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 » Chanel Simmonds, South African tennis player
• 1992 » Go Ah-sung, South Korean actress
• 1992 » Oliver Rowland, English race car driver
• 1993 » Andre Drummond, American basketball player
• 1993 » Shin Hye-jeong, South Korean singer
• 1993 » Yuto Nakajima, Japanese actor, dancer, model, singer, and idol
• 1994 » Bernardo Silva, Portuguese footballer
• 1996 » Lauren Tait, Scottish netball player
• 1997 » Kylie Jenner, American television personality and model

• 1991 » Lưu Trọng Lư, Vietnamese poet and playwright (b. 1912)
• 1993 » Euronymous, Norwegian singer, guitarist, and producer (b. 1968)
• 1997 » Conlon Nancarrow, American-Mexican pianist and composer (b. 1912)
• 1997 » Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian director and screenwriter (b. 1953)
• 1999 » Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Indian historian, scholar, and critic (b. 1899)
• 1999 » Jennifer Paterson, English chef and television presenter (b. 1928)
• 2000 » Gilbert Parkhouse, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (b. 1925)
• 2001 » Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist and politician (b. 1926)
• 2002 » Michael Houser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962)

• 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 29 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
• May 1 » SpongeBob SquarePants premieres on Nickelodeon.
• September 21 » The Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
• December 6 » A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.
• December 18 » NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
• December 20 » Macau is handed over to China by Portugal.

The temperature on August 10, 1999 was between 15.1 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 17.2 mm of rain during 7.4 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (11%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.