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• Benjamine Lee van Kooten, Marion County, Iowa († 2000)
• Heleen Zonneveld († 2002)
• Irene Zonneveld († 2002)

• Cornelis Christianus van Merrienboer (89), Kruisland
• Dr Charles Cameron King DVM (47), Leighton, Alabama, Verenigde Staten
• Dina van Moorsel (73)
• Dirkje Lam (94)
• Anna Tjipjes (79)
• Charles William Stare (85), Flushing, Queens, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Daniel Wilhelmus Gerardus van Dijk (63), Maasbree
• Adrianus Theresia Johannes Kortekaas (71)
• Anna Maria Elisabeth HOOGEBOOM (89), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Westdijk (55), Utrecht

• 1983 » Giulio Scandella, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 » Kevin Doyle, Irish footballer
• 1984 » Anthony Gonzalez, American football player and politician
• 1984 » Dizzee Rascal, British hip hop musician
• 1989 » Serge Ibaka, Congolese-Spanish basketball player
• 1990 » Lewis Holtby, German footballer
• 1992 » Edrick Lee, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Max Meyer, German footballer
• 1998 » Christian Pulisic, American soccer player
• 2003 » Ana Galindo, Mexican rhythmic gymnast

• 1997 » Jimmy Witherspoon, American singer (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Charlie Foxx, American singer and guitarist (Inez and Charlie Foxx) (b. 1939)
• 2001 » Ernie Coombs, American-Canadian television host (b. 1927)
• 2002 » Bob Hayes, American sprinter and football player (b. 1942)
• 2002 » Margita Stefanović, Serbian keyboard player (b. 1959)
• 2002 » Mauro Ramos, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1930)
• 2003 » Bob Mitchell, English educator and politician (b. 1927)
• 2003 » Emil Fackenheim, German rabbi and philosopher (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Norman Cantor, Canadian-American historian and educator (b. 1929)
• 2004 » Russ Meyer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)

• 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.
• May 7 » Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
• August 9 » Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
• August 19 » In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
• November 18 » At Texas A&M University, the Aggie Bonfire collapses killing 12 students and injuring 27 others.
• December 18 » NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.

The temperature on September 18, 1999 was between 8.7 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.