About the day » Sunday August 22, 1999Calender converter

• Timmarijn Planken, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1999)

• Adriana Bril (95), Breskens, Nederland
• Adriana Bril (95), Breskens, Zeeland, NL
• Adriana de Gruil (91), waddinxveen (zuid holland)
• Catharina Johanna Cornelia (Toos) Smulders (66), Eindhoven
• Antonia Cornelia de Ridder (86)
• Cornelia Petronella Henrica de Roo (45), Margraten
• Berend Strabbing (96), Hoogezand,, Groningen, Nederland
• Christina Johanna Hendrika (Stien) Lamark (82), Zwolle, Nederland
• Catharina Johanna Cornelia Smulders (66), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dirk Boersma (77), Mensingeweer

• 1989 » Giacomo Bonaventura, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Drew Hutchison, American baseball player
• 1990 » Randall Cobb, American football player
• 1990 » Robbie Rochow, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Brayden Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1991 » Federico Macheda, Italian footballer
• 1992 » Ema Burgić Bucko, Bosnian tennis player
• 1994 » Olli Määttä, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1995 » Dua Lipa, English singer-songwriter
• 1996 » Jessica-Jane Applegate, British Paralympic swimmer

• 1994 » Allan Houser, American sculptor and painter (b. 1914)
• 1994 » Gilles Groulx, Canadian director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 1995 » Johnny Carey, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1919)
• 1996 » Erwin Komenda, Austrian car designer and engineer (b. 1904)
• 2000 » Abulfaz Elchibey, 2nd President of Azerbaijan (b. 1938)
• 2003 » Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater and coach (b. 1914)
• 2004 » Angus Bethune, Australian soldier and politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1908)
• 2004 » Daniel Petrie, Canadian director and producer (b. 1920)
• 2004 » Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player and trainer (b. 1960)
• 2005 » Luc Ferrari, French-Italian director and composer (b. 1929)

• 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 22 » Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
• February 23 » Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
• March 23 » Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
• March 24 » Kosovo war: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
• May 28 » In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
• December 24 » Indian Airlines Flight 814 is hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India. The aircraft landed at Kandahar in Afghanistan. The incident ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (one passenger is killed).

The temperature on August 22, 1999 was between 6.0 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.