About the day » Friday September 17, 1999Calender converter

• Emil Klomberg, Rotterdam
• Kirsten VROONEN, Rocourt (B) († 1999)

• Bernard Gustave Hubert Put (73), Hasselt, België
• Bryan MILLS (56), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Catharina Roosjen (87), Bloemendaal, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Camilius Jozef Stuer (87), Antwerpen, Antwerpen, België
• Catharina johanna Meegdes (74), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Augustinus Josephus Cammaert (91), Chathem ON (Can)
• Arrien Boxum (87)
• Cornelia Johanna Balmakers (86), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Stoop (87), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antistene del Pezzo (77)

• 1987 » Paul Huntington, English footballer
• 1989 » Kate Deines, American soccer player
• 1990 » Pixie Geldof, English model and singer
• 1990 » Sean Scannell, English footballer
• 1991 » Cameron King, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Justyna Jegiołka, Polish tennis player
• 1991 » Ryo Ishikawa, Japanese golfer
• 1993 » Sofiane Boufal, Moroccan footballer
• 1993 » Sophie Howard, Scottish footballer
• 1997 » Auston Matthews, American ice hockey player

• 1994 » John Delafose, American accordion player (b. 1939)
• 1995 » Isadore Epstein, Estonian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1919)
• 1995 » Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
• 1996 » Spiro Agnew, American soldier and politician, 39th Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
• 1997 » Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
• 1998 » Geoffrey Dutton, Australian historian and author (b. 1922)
• 1998 » Ted Binion, American poker player and businessman (b. 1943)
• 1999 » Frankie Vaughan, English singer and actor (b. 1928)
• 2000 » Georgiy Gongadze, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and director (b. 1969)
• 2003 » Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)

• 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.
• March 21 » Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
• April 1 » Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
• May 24 » The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
• October 12 » Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
• October 29 » A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.
• October 31 » EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Nantucket, killing all 217 people on board.

The temperature on September 17, 1999 was between 10.0 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.