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• Boann Weijermars
• Sem Peters, Nijmegen († 1999)

• Catharina Boudina Swakman (76), Oudorp, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Catharina Josephina Huberta Mulders (97), Valkenburg aan de Geul, Limburg, Nederland
• Alida H. Slijp (88), Rotterdam
• Albertus de Jong (76), Leiden
• Dinand (Knevelbaard (geboren Elling)) Knevelbaard (62), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Lustrac (71), Milaan, Lombardije
• Alice Piszker (70), Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Johannes Hulst (77), Vlissingen
• * Arigje de Wildt (88), Leerdam
• Arigje de Wildt (88), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1988 » Ismaïl Aissati, Moroccan footballer
• 1989 » Moussa Sissoko, French footballer
• 1989 » Wang Hao, Chinese race walker
• 1990 » Godfrey Oboabona, Nigerian footballer
• 1991 » José Eduardo de Araújo, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Diego Schwartzman, Argentinian tennis player
• 1993 » Cameron Monaghan, American actor and model
• 1996 » Caeleb Dressel, American swimmer
• 1997 » Greyson Chance, American musician
• 1999 » Karen Chen, American figure skater

• 1997 » Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician and Qawwali singer (b. 1948)
• 1998 » Dorothy West, American journalist and author (b. 1907)
• 1998 » Phil Leeds, American actor (b. 1916)
• 2002 » Abu Nidal, Palestinian terrorist leader (b. 1937)
• 2002 » Jeff Corey, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2002 » John Roseboro, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
• 2003 » Idi Amin, Ugandan field marshal and politician, 3rd President of Uganda (b. 1928)
• 2004 » Balanadarajah Iyer, Sri Lankan journalist and poet (b. 1957)
• 2004 » Carl Mydans, American photographer and journalist (b. 1907)
• 2004 » Ivan Hlinka, Czech ice hockey player and coach (b. 1950)

1. Thomas
2. Max
3. Niels
4. Bram
5. Robin
6. Jan
7. Tim
8. Kevin
9. Nick
10. Lars
11. Sander
12. Ruben
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.
• January 3 » The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
• February 23 » Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
• May 1 » The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.
• August 19 » In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
• November 11 » The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
• 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 August 16, 1999 was between 11.1 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.