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Born on Wednesday September 8, 1999
Died on Wednesday September 8, 1999



Born on September 8

Died on September 8
  • 1997 » Derek Taylor, English journalist and author (b. 1932)
  • 1999 » Michalis Kounelis, Greek violinist (b. 1928)
  • 1999 » Moondog, American-German singer-songwriter, drummer, and poet (b. 1916)
  • 2001 » Bill Ricker, Canadian entomologist and author (b. 1908)
  • 2002 » Laurie Williams, Jamaican cricketer (b. 1968)
  • 2003 » Leni Riefenstahl, German actress, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1902)
  • 2004 » Frank Thomas, American animator, voice actor, and screenwriter (b. 1913)
  • 2005 » Donald Horne, Australian journalist, author, and critic (b. 1921)
  • 2005 » Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer, footballer, and manager (b. 1932)
  • 2006 » Hilda Bernstein, English-South African author and activist (b. 1915)

Names that were popular for boys in 1999
  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. Thijs
Names that were popular for girls in 1999
  1. Sanne
  2. Emma
  3. Julia
  4. Anna
  5. Lisa
  6. Laura
  7. Lotte
  8. Sophie
  9. Anne
  10. Amber
  11. Maria
  12. Ilse
  13. Kim
  14. Fleur
  15. Anouk
  16. Iris

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1999
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • March 28 » Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in Izbica.
  • March 29 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
  • August 9 » Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
  • December 21 » The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid, Spain.
Weather September 8, 1999

The temperature on September 8, 1999 was between 12.1 °C and 24.9 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.

Source: KNMI