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• luuk van den beuken, helden-beringe

• Antonius Johannes Loozen (65), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Cirlly van Iwaarden (24), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Hylke(Hijlke) Tjalsma (76), Nijland
• Ariea Maria Stolk (90), 's Gravenhage Z.H
• Anna Kleverlaan (63)
• Elisabeth Josephina Carolina Maria Vos de Wael (89), Bloemendaal
• Charles Walter GILPIN (73)
• Arthur Hartwell Mahaffey WingoEmaLoui II (81), Trussville, Jefferson county, Alabama, Verenigde Staten
• Christina Kemper (92), Nieuw-Weerdinge Emmen Drenthe Nederland
• Cornelis Adrianus (Cor) Kooijman (80), Montfoort, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1988 » Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer
• 1989 » Aleix Vidal, Spanish footballer
• 1989 » Charlison Benschop, Dutch footballer
• 1989 » Hayden Panettiere, American actress
• 1989 » James Davey, English rugby league player
• 1989 » Matteo Gentili, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Bo Burnham, American comedian, musician, actor, filmmaker and poet
• 1991 » Leandro Bacuna, Dutch footballer
• 1992 » Felipe Nasr, Brazilian race car driver
• 2000 » Kate Valdez, Filipina actress and singer

• 1993 » Tatiana Troyanos, American soprano and actress (b. 1938)
• 1995 » Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (b. 1919)
• 1995 » Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1928)
• 2000 » Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
• 2000 » Tomata du Plenty, American singer-songwriter and playwright (b. 1948)
• 2001 » Calum MacKay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
• 2003 » John Coplans, British artist (b. 1920)
• 2003 » Kathy Wilkes, English philosopher and academic (b. 1946)
• 2004 » Sachidananda Routray, Indian Oriya-language poet (b. 1916)

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.
• April 14 » NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.
• May 29 » Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
• November 25 » A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
• November 27 » The centre-left Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
• 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 August 21, 1999 was between 7.6 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.