About the day » Tuesday August 31, 1999Calender converter

• Tirza de Vries
• James (Jimmy) Joseph Allen III, Hinsdale, IL

• Antonia Henrica van de Wiel (82), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Beryl Elizabeth McGregor (77)
• Annie de Graauw (86), Bergen op Zoom
• Albert Jan (Jan) Schonewille (67)
• Charles E. Rankin (84), Corning, Tehama County, California, United States of America
• Andries Arie Vreugdenhil (90), 's Gravenzande
• Antoine MALLARD (17), Erne Calvados
• Antonia Johanna Boerkamp (71), Deventer,Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonia Maria Hulsman (82), Rijssen
• Antonius Marie van de Put (72), Weert,, Limburg, Nederland

• 1990 » Tadeja Majerič, Slovenian tennis player
• 1991 » António Félix da Costa, Portuguese race car driver
• 1991 » Cédric Soares, Portuguese footballer
• 1992 » Holly Earl, British actress
• 1992 » Tyler Randell, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Anna Karnaukh, Russian water polo player
• 1993 » Ilnur Alshin, Russian football player
• 1993 » Pablo Marí, Spanish football player
• 1994 » Alex Harris, Scottish footballer
• 1994 » Can Aktav, Turkish football player

• 1997 » Diana, Princess of Wales (b. 1961)
• 1997 » Dodi Fayed, Egyptian film producer (b. 1955)
• 2000 » Dolores Moore, American baseball player and educator (b. 1932)
• 2000 » Lucille Fletcher, American screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 2002 » Farhad Mehrad, Persian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pianist (b. 1944)
• 2002 » George Porter, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
• 2002 » Lionel Hampton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1908)
• 2005 » Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 2006 » Mohamed Abdelwahab, Egyptian footballer (b. 1983)
• 2006 » Tom Delaney, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1911)

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.
• February 11 » Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune's orbit again until 2231.
• April 7 » The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
• May 28 » In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
• June 9 » Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
• August 15 » Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
• November 25 » A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.

The temperature on August 31, 1999 was between 10.6 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.