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Gregorian Year
1999 (MCMXCIX) was
a common year starting
on Friday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1999th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 999th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of
the 20th century,
and the 10th and last year of the 1990s decade. 1999 was designated as the International
Year of Older Persons. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – The euro is
established. ·
January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is
launched by NASA. ·
January 4 – Gunmen open fire on Shia Muslims
worshiping in a mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 16 and injuring
25. ·
January 20 – The China News Service announces
new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet cafés. ·
January 25 – A 6.2 Mw earthquake hits
western Colombia, killing at least 1,900. February[edit] ·
February 4 – Unarmed Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo
is shot dead by New York City police officers on an unrelated
stake-out, sparking outrage in the city.[1] ·
February 7 – King Hussein of Jordan dies
from cancer, and his son Abdullah II inherits the throne. ·
February 11 – Pluto moves along its eccentric orbit
further from the Sun than Neptune. It had been
nearer than Neptune since 1979, and will become again
in 2231. ·
February 12 – U.S. President Bill Clinton is acquitted in impeachment
proceedings in the United States Senate. ·
In Uzbekistan, an apparent assassination attempt against
President Islam Karimov takes
place at government headquarters.[2] ·
Across
Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and
hold hostages after Turkey arrests one
of their rebel leaders. ·
February 21 – Sanna Sillanpää shoots
four men, killing three at a shooting range in Finland. ·
February 22 – Moderate Iraqi Shiite cleric Mohammad
Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr is assassinated. ·
Kurdish rebel
leader Abdullah Öcalan is
charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey. ·
White supremacist John
William King is found guilty of kidnapping and murdering African American James Byrd Jr.by dragging him behind a truck
for 2 miles (3 km). ·
An avalanche destroys the village of
Galtür, Austria, killing 31. ·
February 24 – LaGrand case: The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in
an armed robbery in 1982 that led to a
death. Karl's brother Walter is executed a week later, in spite of Germany's
legal action in the International
Court of Justice to attempt to save him. ·
February 27 – While trying to
circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy
Elson set a new endurance record after being aloft for 233 hours and
55 minutes. March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
One
of four bombs detonated in Lusaka, Zambia, destroys the Angolan Embassy. ·
Rwandan Hutu rebels
kill and dismember eight foreign tourists at the Buhoma homestead, Uganda. ·
The Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines comes
into force. ·
March 3 – Walter LaGrand is executed in the gas chamber in Arizona. ·
March 4 – In a military court, United States
Marine Corps Captain Richard J. Ashby is acquitted of the
charge of reckless flying which resulted in the deaths of 20 skiers in
the Italian Alps,
when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler hit a
gondola cable. ·
March 12 – Former Warsaw Pact members Hungary, Poland,
and the Czech Republic join NATO. ·
March 15 – In Brussels, Belgium,
the Santer Commission resigns
over allegations of corruption. ·
March 21 ·
Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become
the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. ·
The 71st Academy Awards are
held at the Dorothy
Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles with Shakespeare in Lovewinning Best
Picture. ·
March 23 – Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña. ·
March 24 ·
NATO launches air
strikes against the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a
sovereign state. ·
A
fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel kills
39 people, closing the tunnel for nearly three years. ·
March 25 – Enron energy traders allegedly route
2,900 megawatts of electricity destined for California to the town of Silver Peak, Nevada,
population 200. ·
March 26 – The Melissa worm attacks the Internet. ·
March 27 – Kosovo War: A U.S. F-117 Nighthawk is shot down by
Yugoslav forces. ·
March 29 – For the first time,
the Dow Jones
Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark, at
10,006.78. April[edit] ·
April 1 – Nunavut, an Inuit homeland, is created from the
eastern portion of the Northwest
Territories to become Canada's third territory. ·
April 5 ·
Two Libyans suspected
of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in
1988 are handed over to Scottish authorities for eventual trial in the
Netherlands. The United Nations suspends
sanctions against Libya. ·
In Laramie, Wyoming, Russell Henderson pleads
guilty to kidnapping and
felony murder, in order to avoid a possible death penalty conviction
for the apparent hate crime killing
of Matthew Shepard. ·
April 7 – Kosovo War: Kosovo's main border crossings are closed by
Yugoslav forces to prevent Kosovo Albanians from leaving. ·
April 8 – Bill Gates's personal fortune makes him the
wealthiest individual in the world due to the increased value of Microsoft stock. ·
April 9 – Ibrahim Baré
Maïnassara, president of Niger, is assassinated. ·
April 14 – Kosovo War: NATO warplanes repeatedly bomb ethnic Albanian refugee convoys for
2 hours over a 12-mile stretch of road, after mistaking them for Yugoslav
military trucks, between Đakovica and Dečani in western Kosovo,
killing at least 73 refugees. ·
April 17 – A nail bomb, the first of
three planted by David Copeland over
a fortnight, explodes in the middle of a busy market in Brixton, South London. ·
April 20 – Columbine
High School massacre: Two Littleton, Colorado,
teenagers, Eric Harris
and Dylan Klebold, open fire on their teachers and classmates,
killing 12 students and 1 teacher, and then themselves. ·
April 26 ·
Sultan Salahuddin of
Selangor becomes the 11th Yang di-Pertuan
Agong of Malaysia. ·
British
TV presenter Jill Dando, 37, is
shot dead on the doorstep of her home in Fulham, London. ·
April 30 ·
Cambodia joins the Association
of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), bringing the total
members to 10. ·
A
third nail bomb planted by David Copeland explodes in The Admiral Duncan pub
in Old Compton Street, Soho, London, killing a
pregnant woman and two friends and injuring 70 others. May[edit] ·
May 3 – 1999
Oklahoma tornado outbreak: a devastating
tornado, rated F5 on the Fujita scale, hit southern and eastern Oklahoma
City metropolitan area, killing 36 people (and 5 indirectly). It
also produces the highest winds recorded on Earth:
301 ± 20 mph (484 ± 32 km/h). ·
May 6 – Elections are held in Scotland
and Wales for the new Scottish Parliament and National
Assembly for Wales. ·
May 7 ·
Kosovo War: in the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, three Chinese embassy workers are killed and twenty
others wounded when a NATO B-2 aircraft bombs
the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. ·
In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is
ousted in a military coup. ·
May 12 – David Steel becomes the first Presiding
Officer (Speaker) of the modern Scottish Parliament. ·
May 13 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi is
elected President of Italy. ·
May 17 – Ehud Barak is elected prime minister
of Israel. ·
May 26 ·
The Indian Air Force launches an attack on
intruding Pakistan Army
troops and mujahideen militants
in Kashmir. ·
The
first Welsh Assembly in
over 600 years opens in Cardiff. ·
The 1999
UEFA Champions League Final takes place at the Camp Nou Stadium, Barcelona, in which the English side Manchester United defeats
the German side Bayern Munich 2–1. ·
May 27 – 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. ·
May 28 ·
Two
Swedish police officers are wounded by bank robbers armed with automatic
firearms, and later executed with
their own service pistols in Malexander, Sweden. ·
After
22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's The
Last Supper is placed back on display in Milan, Italy. ·
May 29 – Nigeria terminates military rule, and
the Fourth Nigerian
Republic is established with Olusegun Obasanjo as president. June[edit] ·
June 1 – Napster, a music downloading service,
debuts. ·
June 2 – The King of Bhutan allows
television transmissions to commence in the Kingdom for the first time,
coinciding with the King's Silver Jubilee. ·
June 5 – The Islamic Salvation
Army, the armed wing of the Islamic Salvation
Front, agrees in principle to disband in Algeria. ·
June 8 – The government of Colombia announces it will include the
estimated value of the country's illegal drug crops, exceeding half a
billion US dollars, in its gross national
product. ·
June 9 – Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia and NATO sign
a peace treaty. ·
June 10 – Kosovo War: NATO suspends
its air strikes after Slobodan
Milošević agrees to withdraw Yugoslav forces
from Kosovo. ·
June 12 ·
Kosovo
War: Operation Joint
Guardian/Operation Agricola begins: NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping
forces KFOR enter
the province of Kosovo in the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia. ·
Texas Governor George W. Bush announces he will seek
the Republican
Party nomination for President
of the United States. ·
June 14 – Thabo Mbeki is elected President of
South Africa. ·
June 18 – The J18 international
anti-globalization protests are organized in dozens of cities around the
world, some of which led to riots. ·
June 19 – Turin, Italy, is awarded the 2006 Winter Olympics. ·
June 30 – Twenty-three people die in a
fire at the Sealand
Youth Training Center in South Korea. July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
The Scottish Parliament is
officially opened by Elizabeth II on
the day that devolved powers are officially transferred from the Scottish Office in London to the new
devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh. ·
Europol (short for European Police
Office) the European Union's criminal
intelligence agency becomes fully operational. ·
July 7 – In Rome, Hicham El Guerrouj runs
the fastest
mile ever recorded, at 3:43.13. ·
July 10 – American soccer player Brandi Chastain scores the game winning
penalty kick against China in the final
of the FIFA Women's World Cup. ·
July 11 – India recaptures Kargil, forcing the Pakistan Army to retreat. India
announces victory, ending the 2-month conflict. ·
July 16 – Off the coast of Martha's Vineyard,
a plane
crashes piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr.,
killing him, his wife Carolyn
Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister Lauren Bessette. ·
July 20 ·
Mercury program: Liberty Bell 7 –
piloted by Gus Grissom in 1961 –
is raised from the Atlantic Ocean. ·
Falun Gong is banned in the People's
Republic of China under Jiang Zemin. ·
July 23 ·
NASA's Chandra X-ray
Observatory is launched. ·
Mohammed VI of Morocco becomes king upon the death of
his father Hassan II. ·
July 23 – Fourteen Kosovo Serb villagers are killed by
ethnic Albanian gunmen in the village of Staro Gračko. ·
July 27 – Twenty-one people die in
a canyoning disaster at the Saxetenbach Gorge near Interlaken, Switzerland. ·
July 31 – NASA intentionally
crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon,
thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the lunar surface. August[edit] 1999
İzmit earthquake, Turkey ·
August 7 – Hundreds of Chechen
guerrillas invade the Russian republic of Dagestan, triggering a short war. ·
The Atlantique incident occurs
as an intruding Pakistan Navy plane
is shot down in India, sparking tensions between the two nations, coming just
a month after the end of the Kargil War. ·
European record
high temperature of 48.5 °C (119.3 °F) attained
in Sicily at Catenanuova. ·
August 11 – A total
solar eclipse is seen in Europe and Asia. ·
August 17 – The 7.6 Mw İzmit
earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of IX (Violent), leaving more than 17,000
dead and around 50,000 injured. ·
August 19 – In Belgrade, tens of thousands of Yugoslavs rally
to demand the resignation of Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milošević. ·
August 26 – The Second Chechen War begins ·
August 30 – East Timor votes for independence
from Indonesia (which had invaded and occupied
it since 1975) in a referendum. September[edit] ·
September 7 – The 6.0 Mw Athens earthquake affected
the area with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of IX (Violent), killing 143, injuring
800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless. ·
September 8 – The first of a series
of Russian
apartment bombings occurs. Subsequent bombings occur on
September 13 and 16, while a bombing on September 22 fails. ·
September 12 – Under international
pressure to allow an international peacekeeping force, Indonesian president
BJ Habibie announces that he will do so. ·
September 14 – Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations. ·
September 21 – The 921 earthquake,
also known as the Jiji earthquake (magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale), kills
about 2,400 people in Taiwan. October[edit] Mars Climate Orbiter during tests ·
October
– NASA loses one of its probes, the Mars Climate Orbiter. ·
October 1 – Shanghai
Pudong International Airport opens in China, taking over all
international flights from Hongqiao. ·
October 5 – Thirty-one people die in
the Ladbroke Grove
rail crash, west of London, England. ·
October 12 – Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attempts to dismiss Army
Chief General Pervez Musharraf,
who is out of the country. The generals lead a coup d'état, ousting Sharif's
administration, and Musharraf takes control of the government. ·
October 13 – The United States Senate rejects
ratification of the Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).[importance?] ·
October 27 – Gunmen open
fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime
Minister Vazgen Sargsyan,
Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and six other members. ·
October 29 – A super cyclonic
storm impacts Orissa, India, killing approximately 10,000
people. ·
EgyptAir Flight 990,
travelling from New York City to Cairo, crashes off the coast of Nantucket,
Massachusetts, killing all 217 on board. ·
Roman Catholic
Church and Lutheran Church leaders sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification,
ending a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and salvation. November[edit] ·
November 6 – Australians defeat a referendum proposing
the replacement of the Queen and the Governor General with a President to
make Australia a republic. ·
November 12 – The 7.2 Mw Düzce earthquake shakes
northwestern Turkey with a
maximum Mercalli
intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people were
killed and almost 5,000 were injured. ·
November 20 – China launches the first Shenzhou spacecraft. ·
November 23 – The National
Assembly of Kuwait revokes a 1985 law
that granted women's suffrage. ·
November 26 – The 7.5 Mw Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami
follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured. ·
November 27 – The centre-left Labour Party takes
control of the New Zealand
government, with leader Helen Clark becoming the second
female Prime
Minister in New Zealand's history. ·
November 30 – The ExxonMobil merger is completed, forming
the largest corporation in the world. December[edit] The Millennium Dome opened in London. ·
December 3 – After rowing for 81 days
and 5,486 kilometers (2,962 nautical miles), Tori Murden became the first woman to
cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone, when she reached Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands. ·
NASA lost
radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander,
moments before the spacecraft entered the Martian atmosphere. ·
December 5 – Bolivian
municipal elections, the first election contested by Evo Morales' Movement
for Socialism. ·
December 18 – NASA launched the Terra
platform into orbit, carrying 5 Earth Observation instruments,
including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT. ·
December 20 – The sovereignty of Macau is transferred from
the Portuguese Republic to
the People's Republic of China after 442 years of Portuguese settlement. ·
December 26 – Cyclones
Lothar and Martin killed 140 people as they crossed France,
southern Germany, and Switzerland. ·
December 27 – Storm Martin caused damage throughout
France, Spain, Switzerland and Italy, including an emergency due to flooding
at the Blayais Nuclear Power Plant. ·
The
U.S. turned over complete administration of the Panama Canal to the Panamanian
Government, as stipulated in the Torrijos–Carter
Treaties of 1977. ·
Boris Yeltsin resigned as President of Russia,
leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President. ·
3rd millennium celebrations. Births[edit]
January[edit] ·
Gianluca Scamacca,
Italian footballer ·
Diamond White,
American actress, voice artist, and singer ·
Daniel Arzani, Australian footballer ·
Nico Hischier, Swiss ice hockey player ·
Gage Munroe, Canadian actor ·
Collin Sexton, American basketball player ·
January 5 – Mattias Svanberg, Swedish footballer ·
January 6 – Elena Radionova, Russian figure skater ·
Li Zhuhao, Chinese swimmer ·
Maximiliano Romero,
Argentinian footballer ·
January 12 – Nicolás
Schiappacasse, Uruguayan footballer ·
January 15 – Miray Daner, Turkish actress ·
January 18 – Karan Brar, American actor ·
Valentino Müller,
Austrian footballer ·
Jonathan
Taylor, American football player ·
Alban Lafont, French footballer ·
Malang Sarr, French footballer ·
January 24 – Shan Huanhuan, Chinese footballer ·
January 25 – Jai Waetford, Australian singer February[edit] ·
February 4 – Mohammad Soltani
Mehr, Iranian footballer ·
February 7 – Bea Miller, American actress, singer, and
songwriter ·
February 10 – Tiffany Espensen, Chinese-American actress ·
Candace Hill, American track and field
athlete ·
Andriy Lunin, Ukrainian footballer ·
February 14 – Tyler Adams, American footballer ·
February 17 – Oscar Krusnell, Swedish footballer ·
Georgia Coates, British swimmer ·
Quinn Lord, Canadian actor ·
Hugo Gonzalez,
Spanish swimmer ·
February 25 – Gianluigi Donnarumma,
Italian footballer ·
February 28 – Luka Dončić, Slovenian basketball
player March[edit] ·
March 2 – Abdullah Al-Qwabani,
Yemeni long-distance runner ·
March 5 – Colin Schooler, American football player ·
March 6 – Abdul Hakim Sani
Brown, Japanese athlete ·
March 14 – Marvin Bagley III,
American basketball player ·
March 16 ·
Bailie Key, American artistic gymnast ·
Antonis Stergiakis,
Greek footballer ·
Vladimir Guerrero
Jr., Canadian-Dominican baseball player ·
March 22 – Mick Schumacher, German racing driver ·
March 24 – Arina Openysheva, Russian swimmer ·
March 25 – Jin Ji-hee, South Korean actress ·
March 29 – Ezequiel Barco, Argentinian footballer ·
March 31 ·
Sawyer Fredericks,
American singer-songwriter ·
Jens Odgaard, Danish footballer April[edit] ·
April 1 – Jairus Aquino, Filipino actor ·
April 2 – Sophie Reynolds, American actress ·
April 5 ·
Maria Astashkina, Russian swimmer ·
Sharlene San Pedro,
Filipina actress ·
April 6 – Kwesi Boakye, American actor ·
April 8 ·
CiCi Bellis, American tennis player. ·
José
Gomes, Portuguese footballer ·
April 9 – Isaac Hempstead
Wright, British actor ·
April 15 – Denis Shapovalov, Canadian tennis player ·
April 16 – Wendell Carter, American basketball player ·
April 18 – Michael Andrew,
American swimmer ·
April 24 – Jonathan Leko, English footballer ·
April 27 – Joel Asoro, Swedish footballer ·
April 30 – Jorden van Foreest,
Dutch chess grandmaster May[edit] ·
May 2 – Andre Dozzell, English footballer ·
May 5 ·
Jonny Gray,
Canadian actor ·
Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer ·
Nathan Chen, American figure skater ·
May 8 ·
Maykel Massó, Cuban long jumper ·
Rebeca Andrade, Brazilian artistic gymnast ·
May 11 – Sabrina Carpenter,
American actress, singer, and songwriter ·
May 13 – Francis Magundayao,
Filipino actor ·
May 18 – Teo Halm, American actor ·
May 22 – Camren Bicondova, American actress and
dancer ·
May 24 – Charlie Plummer, American actor ·
May 25 – Brec Bassinger, American actress ·
May 27 – Maria Kameneva, Russian swimmer ·
May 28 – Cameron Boyce, American actor ·
May 29 – Park Ji-hoon, South Korean singer and child
actor June[edit] ·
June 1 – Dmitri Aliev, Russian figure skater ·
June 2 – Madison Leisle, American actress ·
June 11 – Kai Havertz, German footballer ·
June 18 – Trippie Redd, American rapper ·
June 21 – Natalie Alyn Lind,
American actress ·
June 22 – Cam Akers, American football player ·
June 23 ·
Noah Marullo, British child actor ·
Semisi Otukolo, Tongan footballer ·
Linton Maina, German footballer ·
June 24 – Mads Roerslev, Danish footballer ·
June 26 – Harley Quinn Smith,
American actress ·
June 27 – Chandler Riggs, American actor ·
June 29 – Nikita Volodin, Russian pair skater July[edit] ·
July 1 – Charles
Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley ·
July 4 – Moa Kikuchi, Japanese singer and dancer ·
July 6 – Denis Khodykin, Russian pair skater ·
July 9 – Claire Corlett, American actress and singer ·
July 10 – April Ivy, Portuguese singer and composer ·
July 12 – Nur Dhabitah Sabri,
Malaysian diver ·
July 13 – Leong Jun Hao, Malaysian badminton player ·
July 15 – Seda Tutkhalyan, Russian artistic gymnast ·
July 17 ·
Lisandro Cuxi, Portuguese-French singer ·
Stahl Gubag, Papua New Guinean footballer ·
July 20 ·
Princess
Alexandra of Hanover ·
Ellie Downie, British artistic gymnast ·
July 28 ·
Kaitlin De Guzman,
Filipino artistic gymnast ·
Troy Brown Jr., American basketball player ·
July 30 – Joey King, American actress August[edit] ·
August 2 – Emma Bale, Belgian singer ·
August 3 – Brahim Díaz, Spanish footballer ·
August 4 – Kelly Gould, American actress ·
August 7 – Sydney McLaughlin,
American hurdler and sprinter ·
August 9 ·
Ariana Guido, American actress and comedian ·
Deniss
Vasiļjevs, Latvian figure skater ·
Kevin Knox,
American basketball player ·
Mary-Sophie Harvey,
Canadian swimmer ·
August 12 – Matthijs de Ligt, Dutch footballer ·
August 16 – Karen Chen, American figure skater ·
August 19 – Ethan Cutkosky, American actor ·
August 21 – Maxim Knight, American actor ·
Dakota Goyo, Canadian actor ·
Ricardo Hurtado, American actor and singer ·
August 26 – Leonie Kullmann, German swimmer ·
Mitchell van Bergen,
Dutch footballer ·
Mile Svilar, Belgian footballer ·
August 28 – Prince Nikolai
of Denmark ·
August 31 – Miomir
Kecmanović, Serbian tennis player September[edit] ·
September 3 – Rich Brian, Indonesian rapper ·
Michelle Creber, Canadian actress and singer ·
Cameron Ocasio, American actor ·
September 13 – Ekaterina Borisova,
Russian pair skater ·
September 14 – Emma Kenney, American actress ·
September 15 – Jaren Jackson Jr.,
American basketball player ·
September 16 – Mao Yi, Chinese gymnast ·
September 17 – Daniel Huttlestone,
English actor ·
September 21 – Alexander Isak, Swedish footballer ·
Kim Yoo Jung, South Korean actress ·
Erin Pitt, Canadian actress ·
September 28 – Kayla Day, American tennis player ·
September 30 – Flávia Saraiva,
Brazilian artistic gymnast October[edit] ·
October 1 – Christopher
Taylor, Jamaican sprinter ·
October 3 – Aramis Knight, American actor ·
Daniel Roche, British actor ·
Wu Yibing, Chinese tennis player ·
Laura Zeng, American rhythmic gymnast ·
Bailee Madison, American actress ·
Alexei Sancov, Moldovan swimmer ·
Ben Woodburn, British footballer ·
October 17 – Gabrielle
Fa'amausili, New Zealand swimmer ·
October 23 – Joseph Andre Garcia,
Filipino actor ·
October 27 – Amy Tinkler, British artistic gymnast ·
October 30 – Wang Yan,
Chinese gymnast November[edit] ·
November 1 – Buddy Handleson, American actor ·
November 8 – Isaac Bonga, German basketball player ·
November 9 – Karol Sevilla, Mexican actress and singer ·
Armand Duplantis, Swedish pole vaulter ·
Kiernan Shipka, American actress ·
Emma Gonzalez, American gun control activist[importance?] ·
Fan Yilin, Chinese artistic gymnast ·
November 13 – Lando Norris, British racing driver ·
November 14 – Ellis Hollins, British actor ·
November 19 – Evgenia Medvedeva,
Russian figure skater ·
November 26 – Olivia O'Brien, American singer December[edit] ·
December 18 – YBN Nahmir, American rapper and songwriter ·
December 20 – Migo Adecer, Filipino dancer and actor ·
December 29 – Nadine Joy Nathan,
Singaporean artistic gymnast Deaths[edit] Main article: Deaths in 1999 January[edit] ·
January 6 – Michel Petrucciani,
French jazz pianist and composer (b. 1962) ·
January 10 – Gavin Relly, South African businessman.[3] (b. 1926) ·
Teuvo Aura, Finnish politician, 33rd Prime Minister
of Finland (b. 1912) ·
Fabrizio De André,
Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1940) ·
Brian Moore,
Northern Irish-Canadian writer (b. 1921) ·
January 12 – Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (b. 1914) ·
January 14 – Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director
(b. 1933) ·
Gerda Ring, Norwegian stage actress and
stage producer (b. 1891) ·
Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938) ·
January 22 – Graham Staines, Australian missionary
(b. 1941) ·
January 23 – John Osteen, American televangelist
(b. 1921) ·
January 25 – Robert Shaw,
American conductor (b. 1916) ·
January 31 – Norm Zauchin, American baseball player
(b. 1929) February[edit] King Hussein of Jordan ·
Barış
Manço, Turkish singer and television personality (b. 1943) ·
Paul Mellon, American philanthropist
(b. 1907) ·
February 5 – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist
(b. 1906) ·
Don Dunstan, Australian politician (b. 1926) ·
Jimmy Roberts,
American singer (b. 1924) ·
February 7 – King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935) ·
February 8 – Dame Iris Murdoch, Anglo-Irish author (b. 1919) ·
February 9 – Bryan Mosley, English actor (b. 1931) ·
February 12 – Heinz Schubert,
German actor and photographer (b. 1925) ·
Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter
(b. 1933) ·
John Ehrlichman, American Watergate scandal
figure (b. 1925) ·
Big L, American rapper (b. 1974) ·
Henry Way Kendall,
American physicist (b. 1926) ·
Andreas Feininger,
French-born photographer (b. 1906). ·
Noam Pitlik, American actor and director
(b. 1932) ·
Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971) ·
Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946) ·
February 21 – Gertrude B. Elion,
American scientist (b. 1918) ·
February 22 – William Bronk, American poet (b. 1918) ·
Andre Dubus, American short-story writer
(b. 1936) ·
Virginia Foster Durr,
American civil rights activist (b. 1903) ·
Frank Leslie Walcott,
Barbadian labour leader (b. 1916) ·
February 25 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist (b. 1912) ·
February 26 – José Quintero, Panamanian director (b. 1924) ·
Bing Xin, Chinese author and poet (b. 1900) ·
Bill Talbert, American tennis player
(b. 1918) March[edit] ·
March 1 – Ann Corio, American dancer and actress
(b. 1914) ·
March 2 – Dusty Springfield,
English pop singer (b. 1939) ·
March 3 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist
(b. 1904) ·
March 4 ·
Harry Blackmun, American judge (b. 1908) ·
Del Close, American actor, writer, and
teacher (b. 1934) ·
Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician, 79th President of
Switzerland (b. 1917) ·
March 5 ·
Alfred Denning,
Baron Denning, British lawyer and judge (b. 1899) ·
John Figueroa, Jamaican poet (b. 1920) ·
Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922) ·
March 6 ·
Dennis Viollet, English footballer (b. 1933) ·
Emir Isa bin Salman
Al Khalifa of Bahrain (b. 1933) ·
March 7 ·
Sidney Gottlieb, American intelligence
official (b. 1918) ·
Stanley Kubrick, American film director and
producer (b. 1928) ·
March 8 ·
Adolfo Bioy Casares,
Argentine writer (b. 1914) ·
Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914) ·
March 12 – Yehudi Menuhin, American violinist (b. 1916) ·
March 13 ·
Lee Falk, American writer, theater director,
and producer (b. 1911) ·
Garson Kanin, American playwright and
screenwriter (b. 1912) ·
March 17 – Ernest Gold,
Austrian-born composer (b. 1921) ·
March 19 – Tofilau Eti Alesana,
Samoan politician, 6th Prime Minister of
Samoa (b. 1924) ·
March 21 – Ernie Wise, English comedian (b. 1925) ·
March 22 – David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969) ·
March 26 – David Holliday, American actor (b. 1937) ·
March 29 – Joe Williams,
American singer (b. 1918) ·
March 31 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and
epigrapher (b. 1922) April[edit] Michael
Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin ·
April 3 – Lionel Bart, English composer (b. 1930) ·
April 4 ·
Faith Domergue, American actress (b. 1924) ·
Jumabek Ibraimov, 5th Prime
Minister of Kyrgyzstan (b. 1944) ·
April 9 – Ibrahim Baré
Maïnassara, Nigerese military officer, 5th President of Niger (b. 1949) ·
April 10 – Jean Vander Pyl, American television actress
(b. 1919) ·
April 12 – Boxcar Willie, American country music singer
(b. 1931) ·
April 13 – Willi Stoph, German politician, 2-time Prime
Minister of the German Democratic Republic (b. 1914) ·
April 14 ·
Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911) ·
Anthony Newley, English actor, singer and
songwriter (b. 1931) ·
April 15 – Harvey Postlethwaite,
English engineer and race car designer (b. 1944) ·
April 20 ·
Rick Rude, American professional wrestler
(b. 1958) ·
Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist
(b. 1896) ·
April 21 – Charles
"Buddy" Rogers, American silent film actor (b. 1904) ·
April 25 ·
Herman Miller,
American screenwriter and producer (b. 1919) ·
Michael
Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish journalist and 6th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1914) ·
Roger Troutman, American funk musician
(b. 1951) ·
April 26 ·
Adrian Borland, British musician and
producer (b. 1957) ·
Jill Dando, British television journalist
(b. 1961) ·
April 27 ·
Al Hirt, American trumpeter and bandleader
(b. 1922) ·
Cyril Washbrook, English cricketer (b. 1914) ·
April 28 ·
Rory Calhoun, American television and film
actor (b. 1922) ·
Arthur Leonard
Schawlow, American physicist (b. 1921) ·
Alf Ramsey, English footballer and manager
(b. 1920) May[edit] ·
May 1 – Jos LeDuc, Canadian professional wrestler
(b. 1944) ·
May 2 – Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938) ·
May 3 – Steve Chiasson, Canadian ice hockey player
(b. 1967) ·
May 8 ·
Dana Plato, American actress (b. 1964) ·
Dirk Bogarde, English actor (b. 1921) ·
Soeman Hs, Indonesian author and educator
(b. 1904) ·
May 10 ·
Eric Willis, Australian politician (b. 1922) ·
Shel Silverstein, American author and poet
(b. 1930) ·
May 12 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born cartoonist
(b. 1914) ·
May 13 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902) ·
May 16 – Eva Macapagal, 9th First Lady of the
Philippines (b. 1915) ·
May 17 – Henry Jones,
American actor (b. 1912) ·
May 18 – Betty Robinson, American athlete (b. 1911) ·
May 19 ·
Candy Candido, American voice actor
(b. 1913) ·
Alister Williamson,
Australian actor (b. 1918) ·
May 23 ·
Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
(b. 1965) ·
John T. Hayward, American admiral (b. 1908) ·
May 26 ·
Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906) ·
Waldo Semon, American inventor (b. 1898) June[edit] ·
June 3 – Charlene Pryer, American professional
baseball player (b. 1921) ·
June 5 – Mel Tormé, American singer (b. 1925) ·
June 6 – Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930) ·
June 8 – Francis Brian
Shorland, New Zealand organic chemist (b. 1909) ·
June 9 ·
Andrew L. Stone, American screenwriter,
director and producer (b. 1902) ·
Maurice Journeau, French composer (b. 1898) ·
June 11 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920) ·
June 12 – Sergey Khlebnikov,
Soviet speed skater (b. 1955) ·
June 16 – Screaming Lord Sutch,
English politician (b. 1940) ·
June 23 – Buster Merryfield,
British actor (b. 1920) ·
June 25 ·
Fred Trump, American real estate developer
(b. 1905) ·
Yevgeny Morgunov, Soviet and Russian actor,
film director, and script writer (b. 1927) ·
June 27 ·
Isaac C. Kidd, Jr.,
American admiral (b. 1919) ·
Siegfried Lowitz, German television actor
(b. 1914) ·
Georgios
Papadopoulos, military ruler of Greece, 69th Prime Minister
of Greece and 4th President of Greece (b. 1919) ·
June 29 – Allan Carr, American producer (b. 1937) July[edit] King Hassan II of Morocco ·
July 1 ·
Dennis Brown, Jamaican reggae singer
(b. 1957) ·
Edward Dmytryk, American film director
(b. 1908) ·
Guy Mitchell, American singer (b. 1927) ·
Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910) ·
July 2 – Mario Puzo, American author (b. 1920) ·
July 3 – Mark Sandman, American rock musician and
artist (b. 1952) ·
July 4 – Jack Watson,
English actor (b. 1915) ·
July 6 ·
Carl Gunter Jr., American politician
(b. 1938) ·
Joaquín Rodrigo,
Spanish composer (b. 1901) ·
July 7 – Julie Campbell
Tatham, American writer (b. 1908) ·
July 8 ·
Pete Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930) ·
Shafik Wazzan, 27th Prime Minister
of Lebanon (b. 1925) ·
July 11 – Helen Forrest, American jazz singer
(b. 1917) ·
July 12 – Bill Owen,
English actor (b. 1914) ·
July 16 ·
John F. Kennedy Jr.,
American lawyer, journalist, and magazine publisher (b. 1960) ·
Carolyn
Bessette-Kennedy, American actress and model (killed in plane
crash) (b. 1966) ·
July 19 – Jerold Wells, English actor (b. 1908) ·
July 20 – Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916) ·
July 22 – Gar Samuelson, American drummer (b. 1958) ·
July 23 ·
King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929) ·
Dmitri Tertyshny, Russian professional ice
hockey (b. 1976) ·
July 25 – Raul Manglapus, Filipino politician
(b. 1919) ·
July 27 – Phaedon Gizikis, Greek general, 5th President of Greece (b. 1917) ·
July 28 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist
(b. 1911) ·
July 29 ·
Anita Carter, American singer (b. 1933) ·
Rajendra Kumar, Indian film actor, producer
and director (b. 1929) August[edit] ·
August 1 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri,
Bengali writer (b. 1897) ·
August 2 – Willie Morris, American writer (b. 1934) ·
August 3 – Leroy Vinnegar, American musician (b. 1928) ·
August 4 – Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913) ·
Giuseppe Delfino, Italian fencer (b. 1921) ·
Jennifer Paterson,
English chef, actress, and television personality (b. 1928) ·
Anthony
Stanislas Radziwill, American television executive and filmmaker
(b. 1959) ·
August 13 – Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and
comedian (b. 1960) ·
Lane Kirkland, American union leader
(b. 1922) ·
Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player
(b. 1918) ·
August 17 – Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (b. 1936) ·
August 22 – Hide Hyodo Shimizu,
Japanese-Canadian educator and activist (b. 1908) ·
August 22 – Aleksandr Demyanenko,
Russian film and theater actor (b. 1937) ·
Norman Wexler, American screenwriter
(b. 1926) ·
James White,
Irish writer (b. 1928) ·
August 24 – Mary Jane Croft, American radio and
television actress (b. 1916) ·
August 25 – Rob Fisher,
British keyboardist and songwriter (b. 1956) September[edit] ·
September 5 – Allen Funt, American television personality
(b. 1914) ·
September 6 – Lagumot Harris, 3rd President of Nauru (b. 1938) ·
September 7 – Jim Keith, American author (b. 1949) ·
Catfish Hunter, American baseball player
(b. 1946) ·
Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922) ·
September 10 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927) ·
September 11 – Gonzalo
Rodríguez, Uruguayan racing driver (b. 1972) ·
September 12 – Allen Stack, American swimmer (b. 1928) ·
September 14 – Charles Crichton, English film director
(b. 1910) ·
September 17 – Frankie Vaughan, British singer (b. 1928) ·
September 20 – Raisa Gorbacheva, Soviet first lady
(b. 1932) ·
September 22 – George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927) ·
September 23 – Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (b. 1910) ·
September 24 – Ester Boserup, Danish economist (b. 1910) ·
September 25 – Marion Zimmer
Bradley, American writer (b. 1930) October[edit] ·
October 1 – Lena Zavaroni, Scottish entertainer
(b. 1963) ·
October 3 – Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (b. 1921) ·
Bernard Buffet, French painter (b. 1928) ·
Art Farmer, American jazz trumpeter
(b. 1928) ·
Gorilla Monsoon, American professional
wrestler and announcer (b. 1937) ·
Amália Rodrigues,
Portuguese fado singer and actress (b. 1920) ·
October 7 – Helen Vinson, American actress (b. 1907) ·
October 8 – John McLendon, American basketball coach
(b. 1915) ·
Milt Jackson, American musician (b. 1923) ·
Akhtar Hameed Khan,
Pakistani businessman (b. 1914) ·
October 11 – Rafi Daham
al-Tikriti, Iraqi intelligence director (b. 1937) ·
October 12 – Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player
(b. 1936) ·
October 14 – Julius Nyerere, 1st President of
Tanzania (b. 1922) ·
October 18 – Paddi Edwards, English-born American actress
(b. 1931) ·
Harry Bannink, Dutch composer and musician
(b. 1929) ·
James C. Murray, American politician
(b. 1917) ·
Nathalie Sarraute,
Russian-born Francophone lawyer and writer (b. 1900) ·
October 20 – Jack Lynch, Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1917) ·
Lars Bo, Danish artist and writer (b. 1924) ·
John Bromwich, Australian tennis player
(b. 1918) ·
October 23 – András Hegedüs,
Hungarian politician, 45th Prime Minister
of Hungary (b. 1922) ·
October 24 – John Chafee, American politician (b. 1922) ·
October 25 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (b. 1957) ·
Rex Gildo, German singer (b. 1936) ·
Abraham Polonsky, American screenwriter and
director (b. 1910) ·
Frank De Vol, American arranger, composer,
and actor (b. 1911) ·
Karen Demirchyan, Speaker of the National
Assembly of Armenia (b. 1932) ·
Robert Mills,
American physicist (b. 1927) ·
Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian military commander
and politician, 12th Prime Minister
of Armenia (assassinated) (b. 1959) ·
October 31 – Greg Moore,
Canadian race car driver (b. 1975) November[edit] ·
Bhekimpi Dlamini, 4th Prime
Minister of Swaziland (b. 1924) ·
Theodore Hall, American physicist and spy
(b. 1925) ·
Walter Payton, American football player
(b. 1954) ·
November 2 – Demetrio B. Lakas,
27th President of Panama (b. 1925) ·
November 3 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928) ·
Rob Nieuwenhuys, Dutch writer (b. 1908) ·
Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (b. 1898) ·
November 9 – Mabel King, American actress and singer
(b. 1932) ·
Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress
(b. 1961) ·
Vivian Fuchs, English geologist (b. 1908) ·
Jacobo Timerman, Argentine journalist and
author (b. 1923) ·
November 12 – Mohammad
Mohammadullah, 3rd President of
Bangladesh (b. 1921) ·
November 15 – Gene Levitt, American television writer,
producer, and director (b. 1920) ·
November 16 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist
(b. 1928) ·
Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910) ·
Horst P. Horst, American photographer
(b. 1906) ·
Doug Sahm, American musician (b. 1941) ·
November 20 – Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician,
32nd Prime Minister of
Italy (b. 1908) ·
Quentin Crisp, English writer (b. 1908) ·
Horacio Gómez
Bolaños, Mexican actor (b. 1930) ·
November 24 – Hilary Minster, English actor (b. 1944) ·
November 27 – Jim Wiggins,
English actor (b. 1922) ·
Iwamoto Kaoru, Japanese professional Go
player (b. 1902) ·
Gene Rayburn, American television
personality (b. 1917) December[edit] ·
Joey Adams, American comedian (b. 1911) ·
Charlie Byrd, American jazz musician and
classical guitarist (b. 1925) ·
Scatman John, American musician (b. 1942) ·
Madeline Kahn, American actress and singer
(b. 1942) ·
Rose Bird, American activist and judge
(b. 1936) ·
Nilde Iotti, Italian politician (b. 1920) ·
Sylvester Clarke, West Indian cricketer
(b. 1954) ·
Rupert Hart-Davis,
British publisher (b. 1907) ·
Péter Kuczka, Hungarian author (b. 1923) ·
Pupella Maggio, Italian actress (b. 1910) ·
Rick Danko, Canadian musician (b. 1943) ·
Franjo Tuđman, 1st President of Croatia (b. 1922) ·
Paul Cadmus, American artist (b. 1904) ·
Joseph Heller, American novelist (b. 1923) ·
Rex Allen, American actor, singer, and
songwriter (b. 1920) ·
Grover Washington,
Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943) ·
December 18 – Robert Bresson, French filmmaker (b. 1901) ·
Desmond Llewelyn, British actor (b. 1914) ·
Robert Dougall, British newsreader (b. 1913) ·
December 20 – Irving Rapper, American film director
(b. 1898) ·
December 23 – John P. Davies, American diplomat (b. 1908) ·
Maurice Couve
de Murville, Prime Minister
of France (b. 1907) ·
João Figueiredo,
Brazilian military leader and politician, 30th President of Brazil (b. 1918) ·
Curtis Mayfield, American musician and
composer (b. 1942) ·
Shankar Dayal Sharma,
9th President of India (b. 1918) ·
December 27 – Leonard Goldenson,
American television executive (b. 1905) ·
December 28 – Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914) ·
December 30 – Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer
(b. 1909) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus J. G.
Veltman ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Günter Blobel ·
Peace – Médecins Sans
Frontières ·
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of
Alfred Nobel – Robert Mundell References[edit] 1.
^ "The Diallo Verdict: The Overview; 4 Officers in
Diallo Shooting Are Acquitted of All Charges" (February
26, 2000), The New York Times, New York: The New York Times 2.
^ Cummings, Sally N. (2002). Power and change in
Central Asia. p. 130. 3.
^ "GAVIN RELLY DIES". mg.co.za. 12
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