About the day » Saturday August 28, 1999Calender converter

• Antonia Cornelia Franken (87), Santpoort-Noord, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Cornelia Antonia Bode (89), Boskoop, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ada Mae Jones (77), Tyler, Texas
• Agnes Vissers (87), Maasbree
• Antje Adrianusdr Hoek (64), Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Hoek (64), Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Aart Docter (93), Nunspeet
• André Gerard Camille Martens (82), Wondelgem, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Annie Mae Shoemaker (86)
• Cornelia Dimphena van de Wiel (83)

• 1991 » Felicio Brown Forbes, German footballer
• 1992 » Bismack Biyombo, Congolese basketball player
• 1992 » Gabriela Drăgoi, Romanian gymnast
• 1992 » Max Collins, American-Filipino actress and model
• 1993 » Jakub Sokolík, Czech footballer
• 1994 » Bobby Andonov, Australian singer
• 1994 » Junior Malanda, Belgian footballer († 2015)
• 1994 » Manon Arcangioli, French tennis player
• 1995 » Joshua Kalu, American football player
• 2003 » Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress

• 1993 » William Stafford, American poet and academic (b. 1914)
• 1995 » Carl Giles, English cartoonist (b. 1916)
• 1995 » Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo performer and painter (b. 1906)
• 1995 » Michael Ende, German scientist and author (b. 1929)
• 2005 » Esther Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1910)
• 2005 » George Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (b. 1911)
• 2005 » Jacques Dufilho, French actor (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Benoît Sauvageau, Canadian educator and politician (b. 1963)
• 2006 » Heino Lipp, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (b. 1922)
• 2006 » Melvin Schwartz, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932)

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 19 » British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
• February 7 » Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
• May 3 » Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side resulted into the kargil war.
• June 10 » Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
• December 14 » Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.
• December 18 » NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.

The temperature on August 28, 1999 was between 9.9 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (79%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.