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Operation Allied Force : NATO air strikes on Serbia | |
Hugo Chavez is the president of Venezuela elected | Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan through a military coup |
1999 in other calendars | |
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From urbe condita | 2752 |
Armenian calendar | 1447-1448 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1991-1992 |
Badi calendar | 155-156 |
Bengali calendar | 1405-1406 |
Berber calendar | 2949 |
Buddhist calendar | 2543 |
Burmese calendar | 1361 |
Byzantine calendar | 7507-7508 |
Chinese calendar | |
- era | 4695-4696 or 4635-4636 |
- 60 year cycle |
Earth-Tiger ( 戊寅 , 15) - |
French revolutionary calendar |
- CCVII CCVIII 207-208 |
Hebrew calendar | 5759-5760 |
Hindu calendar | |
- Vikram Sambat | 2055-2056 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1921-1922 |
Iranian calendar | 1377-1378 |
Islamic calendar | 1419-1420 |
Japanese calendar | |
- Nengō (era): | Heisei 11 |
- Kōki | 2659 |
Coptic calendar | 1715-1716 |
Korean calendar | |
- Dangun era | 4332 |
- Juche era | 88 |
Minguo calendar | 88 |
Modern Olympics | XXVI |
Seleucid calendar | 2310-2311 |
Thai solar calendar | 2542 |
Annual dedications
- 1999 is the " International Year of Seniors " by the United Nations
- The white willow ( Salix alba ) is tree of the year (Kuratorium Baum des Jahres / Germany)
- The satan's boletus ( Boletus satanas ) is mushroom of the year (German Society for Mycology)
- The goldenhammer ( Emberizidae citrinella ) is bird of the year ( NABU / Germany)
- The buck's strap tongue ( Himantoglossum hircinum ) is Orchid of the Year (Arbeitsgruppe Heimische Orchideen / Germany)
- The otter ( Lutra lutra ) is animal of the year (Schutzgemeinschaft Deutsches Wild)
- The North Sea beak ( Coregonus oxyrhynchus ) is the fish of the year (Verband Deutscher Sportfischer e.V.)
Events
Politics and world events
January
- January 1 : Ruth Dreifuss becomes the first female President of Switzerland .
- January 1 : Poland reduces the number of regions ( voivodships ) from 49 to 16 as part of an administrative reform .
- January 2 : An office of the OSCE is in Bishkek ( Kyrgyzstan opened).
- January 2 : Osama bin Laden confesses to the bomb attacks on the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam .
- January 2nd : Juan José Ibarretxe becomes Prime Minister of the Spanish Autonomous Region of the Basque Country .
- January 7th : Impeachment against US President Bill Clinton begins before the United States Senate . He is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice in the course of the Lewinsky affair .
- January 10 : Presidential elections in Kazakhstan
- January 23 : Suspension of economic sanctions against Burundi
February
- February 1 : The Lisbon Convention takes effect. The ratifying countries recognize academic achievements made abroad in the higher education sector in the European region.
- February 2 : Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías becomes President of Venezuela
- February 7th : Death of King Hussein of Jordan
- February 12 : The impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton in the US Senate come to an end after his Lewinsky affair . No two-thirds majority is required for a guilty verdict on account of perjury or obstruction of punishment .
- February 21 : The opposition in Togo blocks the parliamentary elections
- February 22 : The governments of Bulgaria and Macedonia put an end to their longstanding language dispute by signing a joint declaration.
- February 26 : Iran . First local elections
- February 27 : King Abdullah II becomes king ( head of state ) in Jordan
March
- March 6 : Cambodia . Ta Mok , the last leader of the Khmer Rouge ( Khmer Rouge ) is arrested
- March 7 : General elections in Equatorial Guinea
- March 11 : Federal Finance Minister Oskar Lafontaine resigns from all his offices after the government has changed direction
- March 12 : NATO's eastward expansion : Poland , Czech Republic and Hungary join the NATO at
- March 16 : Members of the European Commission resign after allegations of corruption
- March 23 : Paraguay . Assassination of Vice President Dr. Luis Argaña
- March 24th : NATO operation Allied Force begins with air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , the Bundeswehr takes part with Tornado fighter planes
- March 24 : The EU Council agrees on Romano Prodi as the new EU Commission President
- March 25 : The investment protection and promotion agreement between Lebanon and Germany comes into force
- March 28 : Paraguay . The President Raúl Cubas Grau resigns
- March 28th : Luis Ángel González Macchi becomes President of Paraguay
April
- April 1 : Canada . Establishment of Nunavut Territory
- April 9 : Republic of Niger . Assassination of President Baré
- April 20 : USA . Columbine High School rampage : Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, kill twelve classmates and a teacher before they commit suicide.
- April 26 : The multilateral agreement establishing the International Commission for the Protection of the Oder against Pollution enters into force
- April 27 : Georgia joins the Council of Europe
- April 30th : Cambodia receives full membership in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
- April 30th : Military coup in the Comoros . The government is dissolved
May
- May 1st : Nauru becomes a full member of the Commonwealth of Nations
- May 8 : Ismail Omar Guelleh becomes President of the State and Government of Djibouti
- May 17th : State visit by Federal President Roman Herzog to Lithuania
- May 23 : 50th anniversary of the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany
- May 23 : Johannes Rau is the German Federal President elected
- May 28 : Dr. Rudolf Schuster becomes President of Slovakia
- May 29 : Nigeria becomes a Federal Republic with presidential democracy. Olusegun Obasanjo becomes president
June
- June 7th : Indonesia first free elections
- June 9 : Rwanda . Extension of the political transition phase
- 10 June : Macedonia adopted the Stability Pact in Cologne on
- June 10 : NATO air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia cease
- 12 June : NATO troops marching in Kosovo a
- June 13 : arrival of the first with a UN mandate equipped KFOR Troops to Kosovo
- June 15 : Armenia . Vasgen Sarkissian becomes head of government
- June 19 : The G7 summit in Cologne approves the Cologne debt initiative accompanied by the human chain of the Jubilee campaign
- June 24 : Germany brings the ELV Directive EU to case
July
- July 1 : The Cooperation Agreement between Yemen and EC enters into force
- July 7 : Latvia . Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga becomes President
- July 16 : John F. Kennedy Jr. crashes on a self-controlled flight to Martha's Vineyard together with his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and their sister Lauren shortly before reaching the destination airport in the Atlantic .
- July 26 : The Palestinian President Ahmed Kuria visits the Israeli Parliament as the first high-ranking representative of the Palestinians
- July 29 : Stability Summit in Sarajevo , Bosnia
August
- August 7th : Jean-Claude Juncker is sworn in again as Prime Minister of Luxembourg .
- August 9 : Russian President Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin appoints the head of the domestic intelligence service , Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin , as prime minister.
- August 12 : Tajikistan . After the ban on parties, all parties can now register.
- August 21 : In Sofia, the Georgi Dimitrov mausoleum is blown up following a resolution by the new Council of Ministers. The body of Georgi Dimitrov was previously cremated and buried in the Sofia Central Cemetery.
- August 24th : The Bremen bunker murder is committed.
- August 30 : Independence referendum in East Timor
September
- September 1 : Sellapan Ramanathan becomes President of Singapore
- September 5 : The CDU wins the absolute majority in the state elections in Saarland ; Peter Müller becomes Prime Minister
- September 8 : Switzerland's rapprochement with the EU is supported by Parliament
- September 14 : Nauru becomes a member of the United Nations
- September 14 : Kiribati joins the United Nations
- September 19 : In the state elections in Saxony , the CDU defends its absolute majority, the SPD only receives a little more than 10%, the PDS wins
- September 20th : Palau becomes a member of UNESCO
- September 20 : The first INTERFET units land in Dili . Due to the wave of violence in East Timor , the country comes under UN administration .
- September 23 : First direct election of the President in Yemen . President Ali Abdullah Saleh is confirmed in office
- September 26th : Egypt . President Muhammad Husni Mubarak is confirmed by a referendum for a fourth, six-year term
- September 26 : The European central banks declare that gold continues to play an important role in the monetary system and that gold lending transactions will not be expanded.
October
- October 1 : Russian troops march into Chechnya . Beginning of the Second Chechen War
- October 3rd : National Council election in Austria : SPÖ party with the strongest vote
- October 12th : According to UN calculations, the number of people living worldwide crosses the 6 billion mark for the first time.
- October 12 : Parliament of Pakistan suspended after bloodless military coup; General Pervez Musharraf takes power.
- October 15 : The United Nations Security Council decides to set up a liaison office in Angola .
- October 19 : Micronesia becomes a member of UNESCO.
- October 20 : Indonesia . Abdurrahman Wahid is elected President.
- October 24 : Tunisia . Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is confirmed in office as President.
- October 27 : Armenia . Terrorist attack on the parliament building. The president of parliament, the head of government, two deputies, a minister and four MPs are shot dead.
- October 30 : Cayman Islands become an associate member of UNESCO.
- October 31 : Georgia . Second democratic parliamentary elections
- October 31 : The Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church announce the joint declaration on the doctrine of justification in Augsburg .
November
- November 2 : The French Economics and Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigns on suspicion of corruption.
- November 3 : Aram Zarkissyan is appointed head of the government of Armenia .
- November 4th : Ilir Meta is confirmed as Prime Minister in Albania by parliament
- November 4th : Mexico adopts observer status in the Council of Europe .
- November 6 : Emomalij Rahmonov is confirmed in office in the presidential elections in Tajikistan .
- November 14 : Leonid Kuchma is re-elected as President of Ukraine
- November 16 : Ibero-America Summit in Havana , Cuba
- November 17 : Mohamed Ghannouchi becomes Prime Minister of Tunisia
- November 18 : OSCE Summit in Istanbul
- November 19 : Russia withdraws its military from Georgia.
- November 24th : Mamadou Tandja becomes President of the Republic of Niger .
- November 26th : Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Gerhard Glogowski ( SPD ) resigns after allegations of private advantage.
- November 30th : In Seattle - also on all other days - the ministerial conference of the economics and trade ministers of the World Trade Organization (WTO) planned for December 2nd fails due to blocking demonstrations by globalization critics .
December
- December 1 : Northern Ireland regains its autonomy after 27 years of British rule
- December 7 : Gerhard Schröder is 86.3% of the vote as party chairman at the Federal Congress of the SPD confirmed
- December 10 : Albania . The constitutional court declares the death penalty unconstitutional
- December 10 : Decision of the Council of Europe in Helsinki , Finland , on the opening of EU accession negotiations with Bulgaria
- December 10 : Helen Clark becomes Prime Minister of New Zealand
- December 11 : Turkey applies to join the EU
- December 12 : Azerbaijan . First local elections
- December 14 : The agreement "Joint EU-Ukraine strategy" between the EU and Ukraine will be signed
- December 15 : Israel and Syria resume peace negotiations after four years
- December 16 : The former Federal Chancellor and CDU chairman Helmut Kohl admits that in the CDU donation affair he accepted a total of 2.1 million DM illegal party donations over the course of several years and passed them on to the CDU. The politician does not disclose the names of the donors, referring to the word of honor he has given them .
- December 19 : Boris Trajkovski becomes President of Macedonia
- December 19 : Election of a new Duma in Russia
- December 20 : Macau is returned to the People's Republic of China
- December 21 : Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga is confirmed in office as head of state in Sri Lanka
- December 22nd A guest article critical of Kohl by Angela Merkel , Secretary General of the CDU, in a newspaper (FAZ) met with a strong response in the context of the CDU donation affair
- December 23 : Military coup in Côte d'Ivoire
- December 30th : A new constitution comes into force in Venezuela
- December 31 : The United States surrenders the Panama Canal , which has been under US sovereignty since its completion on August 15, 1914 , to Panama. 12,000 American soldiers then leave the military bases that were once built to protect the canal
- December 31 : Hama Amadou becomes Prime Minister of the Republic of Niger
- December 31 : Vladimir Putin becomes President of Russia. Boris Yeltsin resigns
economy
- January 1 : The euro is introduced as book money in eleven EU countries .
- January 12th : Europe's first hydrogen filling station goes into operation in Hamburg . Six companies carry out delivery activities using hydrogen propulsion in suitable vehicles.
- January 12 : In Brazil, the attempt to keep the rate of the national currency real high through central bank purchases fails . As a result of the Brazilian crisis and speculators on the financial markets, its course then collapsed sharply.
- January 15th : The Central Bank of Brazil releases the exchange rate of the "Real".
- January 19 : The German Federal Labor Court approves in a landmark judgment that a general smoking ban on the part of the employer in the workplace is lawful.
- January 28 : Ford acquires Volvo its car division Volvo Car Corporation at a price of 6.45 billion US dollars.
- February 10th : Air France shares are sold to the public.
- February 19 : Opening of the electricity markets in the European Union
- March 17 : ThyssenKrupp AG is established when it is entered in the commercial register . Germany's largest steel and armaments company results from the merger of the steel groups Thyssen AG in Düsseldorf and Friedr. Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp in Essen.
- March 26 : Renault buys 36.8% of Nissan .
- March 26 : The malware Melissa , which is spread via e-mail, blocks corporate computers and causes damage of around 80 million US dollars. The author is soon caught and later convicted.
- March 30 : The Philip Morris Corporation is sentenced by a US court to pay $ 81 million in damages to the survivors of a smoker.
- May 18 : Double taxation agreement between Germany and Kuwait
- June 4 : The US investment bank Bankers Trust is taken over by Deutsche Bank . Based on the total assets , the result will be the world's largest bank to date.
- June 21 : Deutsche Börse introduces the SDAX as a new share index in Germany . It is based on the price development of 50 companies in the small caps segment .
- July 2nd : Renault buys 51% of Dacia .
- July 13 : Rhône Poulenc and Hoechst merge to form Aventis .
- September 1 : Deutsche Bank spins off its retail and branch operations into the Deutsche Bank 24 subsidiary .
- September 3 : The German mark becomes the official currency unit in Kosovo .
- September 7 : Double taxation agreement between Germany and Uzbekistan
- September 29th : The last foundry coke is produced in Germany.
- September 30th : The worst accident in the country to date occurs in the reprocessing plant for spent fuel elements in Tōkai , Japan . At least 150 people are exposed to high levels of radioactivity , killing two workers and contaminating hundreds of residents .
- November 30 : The Barsebäck I nuclear reactor near Malmö , Sweden , is decommissioned.
- November 30th : In the USA, Exxon and Mobil Oil merge to form ExxonMobil Corporation . This creates one of the largest companies on our planet .
- Merger of the French companies Carrefour and Promodès
science and technology
- February 7 : Launch of NASA - space probe Stardust to the study of comets
- February 16 : Annular solar eclipse over Australia
- July 4th : Two treasure hunters find the Nebra Sky Disc
- August 11th : Total solar eclipse over Europe (including Germany ) and western Asia
- 4 September : Inauguration of the new long wave - transmitting station of the Polish Radio in Schulitz . This system is the successor to the transmission system in Konstantynów , the transmission mast of which, until April 2008, the tallest structure in the world, collapsed during renovation work in 1991
- December 20 : Start of NASA - Satellite ACRIMSat to investigate the energy radiation of the sun
- December 25th : The Hubble Space Telescope is successfully repaired
Culture
- Weimar is European City of Culture 1999
- January: Association Blaster goes online
- September 3rd : The Quiz Show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? with Günther Jauch as moderator starts on RTL
- September 30 : Cultural agreement between Germany and the Czech Republic , in force since June 15, 2001
- October 13 : Foundation of the Vitebsk diocese
- November 6 : In Berlin, the American Bryan Berg erects a 7.71 meter high house of cards made of 91,800 playing cards with 131 floors.
- December 12 : More than 60 years after its closure, the renovated Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow is given its religious purpose as a place of worship.
- First location of Schwabach
- First award of the Hanna Strack Prize
- First award of the Children's Laureate
- The ETANENO art project and museum opens in Namibia.
- Opening of the Essl Collection .
- Opening of Daimler Contemporary
- Establishment of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Creation of the Cittàslow movement
- The culture-critical work Black Book Capitalism appears.
- The Cluetrain manifesto is drawn up.
music
- May 17th : Moby releases the album Play .
- May 29 : Charlotte Nilsson wins in Jerusalem with the song Take Me to Your Heaven for Sweden the 44th edition of the Euro Vision Song Contest .
- September 16 : World premiere of the opera What Next? by Elliott Carter in Berlin .
- November 2nd : Rage Against the Machine released the album The Battle of Los Angeles .
- Die Toten Hosen release the album Immortal .
- Dream Theater release the concept album Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a memory .
- The Red Hot Chili Peppers released their reunion album Californication .
- Rammstein release the live album Live from Berlin .
- In Extremo publish the album Verehrt und aufpien .
- blink-182 release Enema of the State , their first album with Travis Barker .
- The doctors release their live album We only want your soul .
- The metal band Avenged Sevenfold is founded.
See also: Number one hits 1999 in Australia , Belgium , Denmark , Germany , Finland , France , Ireland , Italy , Japan , Canada , New Zealand , the Netherlands , Norway , Austria , Sweden , Switzerland , Spain , South Korea , Hungary , the United States and the United Kingdom .
See also: Category: Music 1999
society
- December 30th : A mentally confused intruder seriously injures George Harrison , former lead guitarist of the Beatles , in his castle with a kitchen knife .
Sports
For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .
- January 8th : SK Rapid Wien celebrates its 100th anniversary with a tournament in the Ernst Happel Stadium .
- February 13 : Wladimir Klitschko wins his boxing match against Zoran Vujecic in Stuttgart , Germany , by knockout.
- February 20 : Vitali Klitschko wins his boxing match against Ismael Youla in Hamburg , Germany, through a technical knockout.
- February 23 : Martin Schmitt wins the ski jumping world championship in Bischofshofen .
- March 8th : Eintracht Frankfurt turns 100 years old.
- April 1st : The 1st FFC Turbine Potsdam is founded.
- April 18 : Wayne Gretzky ended his hockey - career .
- April 24 : Wladimir Klitschko wins his boxing match against Everett (Bigfoot) Martin at the Krone Circus in Munich , Germany, by technical knockout.
- The Munich Bladenight takes place for the first time.
- May 22nd : Wladimir Klitschko wins his boxing match against Tony LaRosa at the Sportpalace , Budapest , Hungary , through a technical knockout.
- June 5th : Tennis player Steffi Graf wins the French Open in Paris against Martina Hingis from Switzerland and with it her 22nd and last Grand Slam title.
- June 26th : Vitali Klitschko wins his boxing match against Herbie Hide in the London Arena , London / Great Britain , by knockout.
- July 17th : Wladimir Klitschko wins his boxing match against Joseph Chingangu in the Philipshalle in Düsseldorf , Germany , by technical knockout.
- July 25 : Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France .
- August 1. bis 15. August : In Bayreuth finds the targeted from the air sports community Bayreuth gliding place World Championship in three classes.
- September 25 : Wladimir Klitschko wins his boxing match against Axel Schulz in the Kölnarena in Cologne , Germany, through a technical knockout.
- August 13 : Steffi Graf are at a news conference they were withdrawing from professional - Tennis unknown.
- October 6th : Jan Ullrich becomes world champion in the individual time trial
- October 9 : Vitali Klitschko wins his boxing match against Ed Mahone in the Arena Oberhausen , Oberhausen , Germany, through technical knockout.
- November 12 : Wladimir Klitschko wins his boxing match against Phil Jackson at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas , Nevada , USA , by knockout.
- November 13th : Lennox Lewis wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Evander Holyfield at the Thomas & Mack Center , Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, by winning on points
- November 17 : It becomes known that nandrolone was found in two urine samples from the German long-distance runner Dieter Baumann . The toothpaste affair sets in because the doping athlete proves the presence of the anabolic in his toothpaste tubes .
- November 24th : Steffi Graf and Max Schmeling are voted German athletes of the century
- December 4th : Wladimir Klitschko wins his boxing match against Lajos Erös in the stadium sports hall in Hanover , Germany, by knockout.
- December 9th : Stefan Gimpl becomes the first Austrian to win the Air & Style Contest. At the same event, five people died as a result of a crowd.
- December 11th : Vitali Klitschko wins his boxing match against Obed Sullivan in the Sporthalle Hamburg , Hamburg, Germany, by technical knockout.
- First presentation of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award
- First presentation of the German Paralympic Media Awards
- Mika Häkkinen becomes Formula 1 world champion for the second time
Disasters
- January 25 : Earthquake measuring 6.2 in Colombia kills 1,885
- February 23 : Avalanche disaster in Galtür in Paznaun
- March 24th : 39 people are killed in a truck fire in the Mont Blanc tunnel .
- March 28 : 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck Xinjiang region , People's Republic of China , and India . 100 dead
- April 12th : Suspension railway accident in Wuppertal , five passengers lose their lives, 47 are injured.
- April 20 : Two students run amok at Columbine High School , Littleton, killing 12 students, a teacher and themselves.
- May 3 : The Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak , a series of 66 tornadoes , causes one of the worst natural disasters in the United States . The highest wind speed of all recordings is measured at 511 km / h . Forty-six deaths and $ 1.1 billion in property damage are accounted for after the event.
- May 7th : Two people die in the explosion of a tanker on the Rhine near Dormagen .
- August 17 : Earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 in northwest Turkey with the epicenter near the city of İzmit , around 18,000 dead and 44,000 injured
- September 7th : 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck Greece . 143 dead
- September 20 : 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan , killing 2,297
- October 5 : 31 people die and 523 injured in the Ladbroke Grove railway accident .
- October 29 : A cyclone with wind speeds of 260 km / h hits the mainland in the Indian state of Orissa . As a result, it causes over 10,000 deaths.
- October 31 : A Boeing 767 , flight number 990 , of the airline Egypt Air crashes on the flight from New York City ( USA ) to Cairo ( Egypt ). The crash site is just 100 km off the coast of Massachusetts . Shortly before the crash, the aircraft goes into a dive triggered by the copilot ; all 217 people on board are killed in impact with the sea surface.
- November 12th : Earthquake in northwestern Turkey , around 800 dead
- December 15 : Venezuela. Due to weeks of unusually intense rainfall, catastrophic landslides occurred in the coastal region. In the state of Vargas in front of Caracas in particular , several localities were partly completely buried by masses of mud and debris. Estimates speak of up to 50,000 dead and over 200,000 people left homeless.
- December 26 : In Europe the calls Lothar 110 fatalities.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Born
First quarter
- January 1st : Florian Fischerauer , Austrian soccer player
- January 1st : Benjamin Goller , German soccer player
- January 2nd : Jakub Bednarczyk , Polish-German soccer player
- January 4th : Timothy Tillman , German soccer player
- January 5th : Atakan Akkaynak , German-Turkish soccer player
- January 5th : Gian-Luca Itter , German soccer player
- January 8 : Kamil Grabara , Polish football player
- January 10th : Lara Della Mea , Italian ski racer
- January 10th : Annalena Rieke , German soccer player
- January 10 : Manuel Wintzheimer , German soccer player
- January 12 : Nicolás Schiappacasse , Uruguayan football player
- January 13 : Nicholas Reese Art , American actor and child actor
- January 14th : Francisco Montero , Spanish soccer player
- January 14th : Declan Rice , Anglo-Irish soccer player
- January 15th : Claudia Purker , Austrian ski jumper
- January 18 : Karan Brar , American actor
- January 19 : Lucas Ribeiro , Brazilian soccer player
- January 19 : Kristina Tkatsch , Russian pool player
- January 20 : Shannon Tavárez , American child actress († 2010 )
- January 21 : Erik Kvernberg , Norwegian telemarker
- January 23 : Alban Lafont , French football goalkeeper
- January 28th : Agathe Bessard , French skeleton pilot
- January 29 : Eklent Kaçi , Albanian pool player
- January 30th : Noé Claye , French telemarker
- February 2 : Edmond Tapsoba , Burkinabe soccer player
- February 3 : Abigail Hargrove , American actress
- February 5th : Nick Lehmann , German handball player
- February 7 : Bea Miller , American actress and singer
- February 14 : Justus Schlingensiepen , German actor
- February 20 : Lea van Acken , German actress
- February 25 : Gianluigi Donnarumma , Italian football goalkeeper
- February 27 : Park Guy-lim , South Korean ski jumper
- February 28 : Luka Dončić , Slovenian basketball player
- March 2nd : Aljaž Osterc , Slovenian ski jumper
- March 3 : Deanne Rose , Canadian soccer player
- March 4th : Bo Bendsneyder , Dutch motorcycle racer
- March 7 : Ronald Araújo , Uruguayan soccer player
- March 7th : Luca Pellegrini , Italian football player
- March 11 : Mirko Antonucci , Italian football player
- March 11 : Tomi Petrović , Croatian football player
- March 12 : Kendall Applegate , American actress
- March 15 : Andreas Warmbrunn , German actor
- March 19 : Tatum McCann , American actress
- March 22nd : Alec Dixon , British telemarker
- March 22nd : Mick Schumacher , German automobile racing driver
- March 22nd : Marcus Tavernier , English soccer player
- March 24th : Margot Nuccetelli , Italian actress
- March 24th : Katie Swan , British tennis player
- March 28 : Aaron Opoku , German soccer player
- March 29 : Ezequiel Barco , Argentine soccer player
- March 29 : Bartosz Slisz , Polish football player
- March 30th : Annabelle Prölß , German figure skater
Second quarter
- April 2 : Metehan Güçlü , Turkish-French soccer player
- April 8 : Catherine Bellis , American tennis player
- April 9 : Lil Nas X , American rapper
- April 9 : Isaac Hempstead-Wright , English actor
- April 10 : Mahamadou Dembélé , French football player
- April 12th : Anna Sergejewna Schukowa , Russian ski jumper
- April 13 : Alessandro Bastoni , Italian football player
- April 18 : Ben Brereton , British football player
- April 20th : Fabio Quartararo , French motorcycle racer
- April 24th : Palkó Dárdai , German-Hungarian football player
- April 27th : Silvia Crosio , Italian rower
- April 27 : Brooklynn Proulx , Canadian actress
- April 30th : Jorden van Foreest , Dutch chess grandmaster
- May 2nd : Ivan Sergejewitsch Kakowski , Russian snooker player
- May 4th : Nelson Mandela Mbouhom , Cameroonian football player
- May 5th : Justin Kluivert , Dutch soccer player
- May 7 : Cassidi Hoag , Canadian actress
- May 8th : Jana Fischer , German snowboarder
- May 11 : Sabrina Carpenter , American actress and singer
- May 11 : Madison Lintz , American actress
- May 13 : Roman Lochmann , German song parodist
- May 13 : Sheldon van der Linde , South African racing car driver
- May 17th : Renat Dadashov , German-Azerbaijani football player
- May 17th : Amina Sherif , German-Egyptian chess player
- May 18th : Ayaka Igarashi , Japanese ski jumper
- May 18th : Laura Omloop , Belgian singer and yodeler
- May 19 : Kaja Norbye , Norwegian ski racer
- May 19 : Andrea Pinamonti , Italian football player
- May 27 : Lily-Rose Depp , French-American actress
- May 27 : Nick Haspinger , German handball player
- May 28 : Cameron Boyce , American actor († 2019 )
- May 28 : Lisa Klostermann , German soccer goalkeeper
- May 29th : Habiba Mohamed , Egyptian squash player
- June 1st : Aoife Casey , Irish rower
- June 2 : Madison Leisle , American actress
- June 3 : Lukas Rieger , German pop singer
- June 4th : Domen Prevc , Slovenian ski jumper
- June 4th : Kim So-hyun , South Korean actress
- June 6 : Lukas Malicsek , Austrian soccer player
- June 11 : Kai Havertz , German soccer player
- June 11th : Janina Minge , German soccer player
- June 11 : Katelyn Nacon , American actress
- June 16 : Dominik Fitz , Austrian soccer player
- June 17th : Eldar Salihović , Montenegrin ski racer
- June 28th : Markéta Vondroušová , Czech tennis player
- June 29th : Shihori Ōi , Japanese ski jumper
- June 30th : Chezka Centeno , Filipino pool player
Third quarter
- July 2nd : Giulia Gwinn , German soccer player
- July 2nd : Yūken Iwasa , Japanese ski jumper
- July 2nd : Nicolò Zaniolo , Italian football player
- July 3rd : Dominik Alder , Swiss floorball player
- July 5th : Philip Hanson , British racing car driver
- July 6th : Tomasz Kucz , Polish football player
- July 8 : Enrico Brignola , Italian football player
- July 12th : Amar Hodžić , Austrian football player
- July 12th : Nella Korpio , Finnish ski racer
- July 12th : Vid Vrhovnik , Slovenian Nordic combined skier
- July 22nd : Letizia Paternoster , Italian cyclist
- July 23 : Felina Czycykowski , German figure skater and actress
- July 23 : Vitinho , Brazilian soccer player
- July 30th : Joey King , American actress
- July 31 : Leonard Pospichal , Austrian rock musician
- August 4th : Kelly Gould , American actress
- August 12th : Matthijs de Ligt , Dutch football player
- August 13 : Eleora Hamming , Canadian ski jumper
- August 14 : Osman Şanlisoy , North Cypriot pool player
- August 20 : Elvedina Muzaferija , Bosnian ski racer
- August 20 : Gloriana Villalobos , Costa Rican soccer player
- August 21 : Kai Lightner , American sport climber
- August 22nd : Dakota Goyo , Canadian actor
- August 27 : Mile Svilar , Belgian-Serbian football goalkeeper
- August 28th : Nikolai zu Denmark , Danish prince
- August 29 : Giorgi Chakvetadze , Georgian football player
- September 1 : Jadagrace , American actress, singer and dancer
- September 3rd : Annika Graser , German soccer player
- September 7th : Chris Corning , American snowboarder
- September 7th : Cameron Ocasio , American actor
- September 9 : Ronni Hawk , American actress
- September 12th : Nele Trebs , German actress
- September 12 : Max Zimmermann , Austrian ice hockey goalkeeper
- September 13 : Pedro Porro , Spanish soccer player
- September 14th : Tom Schaar , American skateboarder
- September 15 : Luca Jochen , German actor
- September 15 : Tamino Wecker , German actor
- September 17th : Daniel Huttlestone , British actor and musical performer
- September 19 : Dominik Terzer , Austrian Nordic combined athlete
- September 21 : Alexander Isak , Swedish football player
- September 22nd : Alex Vinatzer , Italian ski racer
- September 27 : Levin Liam , German actor
- September 30th : Arón Canet , Spanish motorcycle racer
Fourth Quarter
- October 3 : Aramis Knight , American actor
- October 15 : Bailee Madison , American actress
- October 16 : Nicolò Bulega , Italian motorcycle racer
- October 16 : Lyubov Dolgaja , Russian billiards player
- October 19 : Carlotta Truman , German singer and actress
- October 23 : Belle Delphine , British e-girl, model and web video producer
- November 5th : Giulia Mignemi , Italian rower
- November 9 : Karol Sevilla , Mexican actress and singer
- November 9th : Laura Unuk , Slovenian chess player
- November 10 : Kiernan Shipka , American actress
- November 22 : Olivia Rose Keegan , American actress and singer
- November 26th : Jonas Holdenrieder , young German actor
- November 27th : Constantin Schmid , German ski jumper
- November 30th : Manuel Camacho , Spanish actor
- December 8th : Jelena Herrmann , German actress
- December 17th : Laura Meriano , Italian rower
Exact date unknown
- Bruno Alexander , German actor
- Jokubas Aust , German actor
- Nino Böhlau , German actor
- Carolin Garnier , German actress
- Quirin Oettl , German actor
- Luis Pintsch , German actor
- Sero el Mero , German rapper
- Paul Michael Stiehler , German actor
Died
This is a list of the most important people who passed away in 1999. For a more detailed list see Nekrolog 1999 .
January
- January 1 : Henry Glade , German-American linguist (* 1920 )
- January 2 : Sebastian Haffner , German author and publicist (* 1907 )
- January 2 : Rolf Liebermann , Swiss composer and artistic director (* 1910 )
- January 2 : Harvey Perrin , Canadian violinist, violist, choir conductor and music teacher (* 1905 )
- January 3 : Chuck Parsons , American racing driver (* 1924 )
- January 5 : Charles Francis Adams IV , American economic manager (* 1910)
- January 5 : Rolf Gutbrod , German architect (* 1910 )
- January 6th : Ntsu Mokhehle , Lesothic politician (* 1918 )
- January 6th : Michel Petrucciani , French jazz pianist (* 1962 )
- January 9 : Carl Atwood Elliott , American politician (* 1913 )
- January 11 : Teuvo Ensio Aura , Finnish politician (* 1912 )
- January 11th : Fabrizio De André , Italian songwriter (* 1940 )
- January 11th : Brian Moore , Irish writer and screenwriter (* 1921 )
- January 13 : Karl Lieffen , German stage, film and television actor (* 1926 )
- January 14th : Jerzy Grotowski , Polish director (* 1933 )
- January 14th : Muslimgauze , English musician (* 1961 )
- January 18 : Otto Föllinger , German professor of control engineering (* 1924 )
- January 18 : Günter Strack , German actor (* 1929 )
- January 18 : Reginald Zupancic , Austrian clergyman (* 1905 )
- January 21 : Charles Brown , American blues singer and pianist (* 1922 )
- January 21 : Jacques Chailley , French musicologist, music teacher and composer (* 1910 )
- January 23 : Joe D'Amato , Italian film director (* 1936 )
- January 25 : Bill Crofut , American banjo player and folk singer (born 1935 )
- January 25 : Rudi Glöckner , German football referee (* 1929 )
- January 26th : August Everding , German director, manager, cultural politician and general manager (* 1928 )
- January 27 : Gonzalo Torrente Ballester , Spanish writer (* 1910 )
- January 28 : Leonard C. Lewin , American writer and satirist (* 1916 )
- January 28 : František Vláčil , Czech director (* 1924 )
- January 29th : Willy Bandholz , German field handball player (* 1912 )
- January 29 : David Ricardo Williams , Canadian lawyer, historian and writer (* 1923 )
- January 30 : Mills E. Godwin , American politician (* 1914 )
- January 31 : Gabriel Ruiz , Mexican composer (* 1908 )
February
- February 1 : Barış Manço , Turkish singer, composer, television producer, television presenter and actor (* 1943 )
- February 2 : Mohammad Taghi Massoudieh , Iranian ethnomusicologist and composer (* 1927 )
- February 2 : August Neuburger , German politician (* 1902 )
- February 2 : Vilmos Tátrai , Hungarian violinist, conductor and music teacher (* 1912 )
- February 3 : Juan Amenábar , Chilean composer (* 1922 )
- February 4 : Amadou Diallo , Guinean immigrant shot by the police (* 1975 )
- February 4 : Vittorio Marzotto , Italian racing driver (* 1922 )
- February 5 : Neville Bonner , Australian politician (* 1922 )
- February 5 : Rembert van Delden , German politician (* 1917 )
- February 5 : Wassily Leontief , Russian-American economist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1905 )
- February 6 : Erwin Blask , German athlete (* 1910 )
- February 6 : Umberto Maglioli , Italian racing driver (* 1928 )
- February 7th : Hussein I , King of Jordan from 1952 to 1999 (* 1935 )
- February 8 : Hilde Lotz-Bauer , German photographer and art historian (* 1907 )
- February 8 : Iris Murdoch , Anglo-Irish writer and philosopher (* 1919 )
- February 9 : Aleksander Gieysztor , Polish medieval historian (* 1916 )
- February 9 : Len Levy , American football player (born 1921 )
- February 10 : Josef Holaubek , Austrian police chief in Vienna (* 1907 )
- February 10 : Louise Piëch , Austrian entrepreneur (* 1904 )
- February 11 : Jaki Byard , American jazz musician (* 1922 )
- February 12 : Heinz Schubert , German actor (* 1925 )
- February 14 : John Ehrlichman , American politician and Nixon's chief adviser (* 1925 )
- February 14 : Buddy Knox , American singer and songwriter (* 1933 )
- February 15 : William Garrett , American racing driver (* 1933 )
- February 15 : Ferenc Vozar , German ice hockey player (* 1945 )
- February 15 : Henry W. Kendall , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1926 )
- February 15 : Big L , American rapper (* 1974 )
- February 15 : Irene Britton Smith , American composer (* 1907 )
- February 16 : Necil Kâzım Akses , Turkish composer (* 1908 )
- February 17 : Joseph Elias Tawil , Syrian Archbishop of Newton (USA) (* 1913 )
- February 18 : Margaret Drynan , Canadian organist and choir director, composer and music teacher (* 1915 )
- February 18 : Wilhelm Wehren , German politician (* 1914 )
- February 18 : Andreas Feininger , American photographer (* 1906 )
- February 19 : Georg "Schorsch" Meier , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1910 )
- February 20 : Sarah Kane , British director (* 1971 )
- February 21 : Gertrude Belle Elion , American scientist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1918 )
- February 22nd : Charles Gerhardt , American conductor, arranger, sound engineer and music producer (* 1927 )
- February 23 : Heinrich Schmid , linguist (* 1921 )
- February 25 : Glenn T. Seaborg , American chemist and nuclear physicist (* 1912 )
- February 26 : Michael Angelo Avallone Jr. , American writer (* 1924 )
- February 26 : Annibale Frossi , Italian football player and coach (* 1911 )
- February 27 : Stéphane Sirkis , French musician (* 1959 )
- February 28 : Anthea Shirley Askey , British actress (born 1933 )
- February 28 : Bill Duniven , American rock 'n' roll musician (* 1938 )
March
- March 2 : Dusty Springfield , British soul singer (* 1939 )
- March 3 : Fritz Nuss , German sculptor, art professor (* 1907 )
- March 4 : Eddie Dean , American actor and country musician (born 1907 )
- March 4 : Fritz Honegger , Swiss politician (* 1917 )
- March 5 : Alfred Denning , English judge (* 1899 )
- March 5 : Parker McKenzie , American Kiowa linguist (* 1897 )
- March 6 : Isa bin Salman Al Chalifa , Emir of Bahrain (* 1933 )
- March 6 : Lowell Fulson , American blues guitarist and singer. (* 1921 )
- March 6 : Klaus Gysi , German politician, Minister for Culture (* 1912 )
- March 7th : Friedrich Asinger , Austrian chemist (* 1907 )
- March 7th : Stanley Kubrick , American film director (* 1928 )
- March 8 : Adolfo Bioy Casares , Argentinian writer (* 1914 )
- March 8 : Peggy Cass , American actress (* 1924 )
- March 8 : Joe DiMaggio , American baseball player (born 1914 )
- March 8 : Conrad Dürr , German motorcycle racer (* 1907 )
- March 9 : Éliane Richepin , French pianist, music teacher and composer (* 1910 )
- March 9 : Harry Somers , Canadian composer (* 1925 )
- March 10 : Oswaldo Guayasamín , Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (* 1919 )
- March 12 : Yehudi Menuhin , American-British violinist and conductor (* 1916 )
- March 12th : André Nocquet , French master of the Japanese martial art Aikido (* 1914 )
- March 13 : Gary Jennings , American writer (* 1928 )
- March 13th : Jean-Claude Justice , French racing car driver (* 1949 )
- March 17th : Boleslaw Barlog , German theater director (* 1906 )
- March 17 : Eric Stanton , American draftsman of erotic comics and illustrations (* 1926 )
- March 17th : Hubert Bognermayr , Austrian musician (* 1948 )
- March 19 : Sylvia Gähwiller , Swiss singer and vocal teacher (* 1909 )
- March 19 : José Agustín Goytisolo , Spanish poet (* 1928 )
- March 21 : Mary Dinsmore Salter Ainsworth , American developmental psychologist (* 1913 )
- March 22nd : Paul-Marcel Gauthier , Canadian singer and composer (* 1910 )
- March 22nd : David Strickland , American film actor (* 1969 )
- March 24th : Gertrud Scholtz-Klink , Reichsfrauenführer in the Third Reich (* 1902 )
- March 25 : Mighty Joe Young , American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (* 1927 )
- March 26 : Hans Geissberger , Swiss painter and sculptor (* 1921 )
- March 27 : Michael Vaillancourt Aris , British historian and Tibetologist (* 1946 )
- March 27 : Rolf Ludwig , German actor (* 1925 )
- March 29th : Hermann-Josef Kaltenborn , German local politician and mayor of the city of Stolberg / Rhld. (* 1921 )
- March 29 : Gyula Zsengellér , Hungarian football player (* 1915 )
- March 30th : Heinz Ansmann , German banker (* 1906 )
- March 30 : Yuri Walentinowitsch Knorosow , Soviet Egyptologist (* 1922 )
- March 30th : Franz Ronneberger , communication scientist (* 1913 )
- March 31 : Jerry Toth , Canadian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist, composer and arranger (* 1928 )
April
- April 2 : Karl Bohmann , Austrian motorcycle racer (* 1909 )
- April 3 : Lionel Bart , British musical composer (* 1930 )
- April 4 : Kurt Asendorf , German author and local researcher (* 1923 )
- April 5 : Werner Bieder , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor (* 1911 )
- April 9 : Raúl Silva Henríquez , Archbishop of Santiago de Chile and Cardinal (* 1907 )
- April 9 : Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara , Nigerien politician and president of the country (* 1949 )
- April 13 : Edith Anderson- Schröder, American journalist and writer (* 1915 )
- April 13th : Ortvin Sarapu , New Zealand chess player of Estonian origin. (* 1924 )
- April 13 : Willi Stoph , German politician (* 1914 )
- April 14 : Nuno Krus Abecasis , Portuguese politician (* 1929 )
- April 16 : Karl Schefold , classical archaeologist (* 1905 )
- April 16 : Skip Spence , American rock musician (guitar, vocals, drums) (* 1946 )
- April 18 : Gian-Carlo Rota , Italian-American mathematician (* 1932 )
- April 18 : István Vincze , Hungarian mathematician (* 1912 )
- April 19 : Léon Barzin , American conductor (* 1900 )
- April 19 : Hermine Braunsteiner-Ryan , guard in the Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps (* 1919 )
- April 20 : Ella Auerbach , German lawyers (* 1900)
- April 20 : Rick Rude , American wrestler (* 1958 )
- April 20 : Rachel Scott , victim of the Littleton school massacre (* 1981 )
- April 21 : Siegfried Spielmann , German billiard player and winner of the Silver Laurel Leaf (* 1921 )
- April 23 : Maria Àngels Anglada i d'Abadal , Spanish author (* 1930 )
- April 25 : Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin , Anglo-Irish journalist and sports official (* 1914 )
- April 26 : Man Mohan Adhikari , Nepalese politician and president (* 1920 )
- April 26 : Walter Reichert , German motorcycle racer (* 1933 )
- April 27 : Rolf Landauer , German-American physicist and information scientist (* 1927 )
- April 27 : Mark Weiser , American computer scientist (* 1952 )
- April 28 : Arthur L. Schawlow , American physicist (* 1921 )
May
- May 1 : Brian Shawe-Taylor , British racing car driver (* 1915 )
- May 2 : Oliver Reed , British actor (born 1938 )
- May 5 : John Howard , English major during the Second World War (* 1912 )
- May 6 : Higashiyama Kaii , Japanese landscape painter (* 1908 )
- May 7 : Shalom Ben-Chorin , journalist, religious scholar (* 1913 )
- May 8 : Dirk Bogarde , British actor (* 1921 )
- May 8 : Marek Jablonski , Canadian pianist and music teacher (* 1939 )
- May 8 : Theodor Puff , German football player (* 1927 )
- May 9 : Edward Abraham , British biochemist (* 1913 )
- May 9 : Harry Blech , British conductor and violinist (* 1910 )
- May 9 : Jürgen Fuchs , German civil rights activist and writer (* 1950 )
- May 9 : Dieter Strützel , German cultural scientist and sociologist (* 1935 )
- May 11 : Werner Fuchs , German football player and coach (* 1948 )
- May 12 : Theodor Ritterspach , judge at the Federal Constitutional Court (* 1904 )
- May 13 : Motohiko Hino , Japanese jazz drummer (* 1946 )
- May 14 : Manuel del Cabral , Dominican writer (* 1907 )
- May 15 : Ernst Mosch , entertainment musician, founder of the original Egerland musicians (* 1925 )
- May 18th : Augustus Pablo , reggae and dub musician (* 1954 )
- May 18 : Betty Robinson , American sprinter and Olympic champion (* 1911 )
- May 20 : Horst Stachelhaus , German bass player and journalist (* 1950 )
- May 20 : Jan Wornar , Sorbian writer (* 1934 )
- May 21 : Bugz , American rapper (born 1977 )
- May 22 : Alfred Kubel , German politician (* 1909 )
- May 23 : Owen Hart , Canadian-American wrestler (born 1965 )
- May 25 : Horst Frank , German actor (* 1929 )
- May 26 : Paul Sacher , Swiss conductor and patron (* 1906 )
- May 27 : Alice Adams , American author and university professor (* 1926 )
- May 27 : Thomas Briccetti , American composer, pianist and conductor (* 1936 )
- May 27 : Violet Webb , British athlete and Olympic champion (* 1915 )
- May 30 : Sanja Milenković , civilian victim of a NATO bomb attack in Kosovo (* 1983 )
June
- June 1 : Christopher Cockerell , British engineer and inventor (* 1910 )
- June 1 : Gert Ledig , German writer (* 1921 )
- June 2 : Junior Braithwaite , Jamaican musician, co-founder of the Wailers (* 1949 )
- June 2 : Kenny Parchman , American rockabilly musician (* 1932 )
- June 3 : Helge Christian Bronée , Danish football player (* 1922 )
- June 4 : John McKeithen , American politician (* 1918 )
- June 5 : Ernie Wilkins , American jazz musician (* 1922 )
- June 6 : Albrecht Schlageter , German homeland and mining researcher (* 1927 )
- June 7 : Paul Oskar Kristeller , humanism researcher (* 1905 )
- June 11 : Herbert Jasper , Canadian neuroscientist (* 1906 )
- June 11 : DeForest Kelley , American actor (* 1920 )
- June 11 : Reinhold Massag , German author and actor (* 1943 )
- June 14th : Chou Tzuyu , Taiwanese pop singer and member of the South Korean girl group Twice (* 1999)
- June 14 : Osvaldo Dragún , Argentine playwright (* 1929 )
- June 14 : Josef Stierli , Swiss Jesuit and church historian (* 1913 )
- June 14 : Hann Trier , German painter and graphic artist (* 1915 )
- June 14 : Jack M. Campbell , American politician (* 1916 )
- June 15 : Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart (* 1919 )
- June 15 : Sigrid Hunke , German religious scholar and Germanist (* 1913 )
- June 16 : Screaming Lord Sutch , British musician and politician (* 1940 )
- June 16 : Lothar Ulsaß , German football player (* 1940 )
- June 16 : Marshall Wayne , American water diver and Olympic champion (* 1912 )
- June 17 : Horst Niendorf , German actor and voice actor (* 1926 )
- June 19 : Leslie Holdridge , American botanist and climatologist (* 1907 )
- June 21 : Amédée Borsari , French composer (* 1905 )
- June 21 : Karl Krolow , German writer (* 1915 )
- June 22nd : Luboš Fišer , Czech composer and director (* 1935 )
- June 22nd : Guy Tunmer , South African racing car driver (* 1948 )
- June 24th : Wilhelm Sandfuchs , church journalist (* 1913 )
- June 25 : Peter Abeles , Australian entrepreneur (* 1924 )
- June 25 : Rawilja Agletdinova , Soviet middle-distance runner (* 1960 )
- June 27th : Truus van Aalten , Dutch actress (* 1910 )
- June 27 : Siegfried Lowitz , German actor (* 1914 )
- June 27 : Marion Motley , American football player (* 1920 )
- June 27 : Georgios Papadopoulos , Greek officer and politician (* 1919 )
- June 28 : Hilde Krahl , Austrian actress (* 1917 )
- June 29 : Karekin Sarkissian , Supreme Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church (* 1932 )
- June 30 : Beveridge Webster , American pianist and music teacher (* 1908 )
July
- July 1 : Edward Dmytryk , American film director (* 1908 )
- July 1 : Guy Mitchell , American pop singer and film actor (* 1927 )
- July 1 : Joshua Nkomo , Zimbabwean politician (* 1917 )
- July 1 : Sylvia Sidney , American actress (* 1910 )
- July 1 : Dennis Brown , Jamaican reggae singer (* 1957 )
- July 2 : Mario Puzo , American author (* 1920 )
- July 3 : Herta Heuwer , inventor of the spicy chill-up sauce for currywurst (* 1913 )
- July 3 : Yoko Tani , Franco-Japanese actress (* 1932 )
- July 6 : Joaquín Rodrigo , Spanish composer (* 1901 )
- July 8th : Günter Caspar , editor-in-chief at Aufbau Verlag (* 1924 )
- July 8 : Charles Conrad , American astronaut (* 1930 )
- July 9 : Karl Adam , German football player (* 1924 )
- July 10 : Theodor Eschenburg , German political scientist, journalist and constitutional lawyer (* 1904 )
- July 14th : Jerzy Witkowski , Polish pianist (* 1938 )
- July 16 : Erich Deisler , German table tennis player (* 1915 )
- July 16 : John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. , American lawyer and publisher (* 1960 )
- July 19 : Ignace Raad , Lebanese Archbishop (* 1923 )
- July 20 : Emil Andres , American racing car driver (* 1911 )
- July 21 : Jun Etō , Japanese literary critic (* 1932 )
- July 21 : David Ogilvy , copywriter (born 1911 )
- July 23 : Hassan II , King of Morocco (1961–1999) (* 1929 )
- July 23 : Dieter Baacke , German educationalist (* 1934 )
- July 23 : Horst-Gregorio Canellas , President of Kickers Offenbach (* 1921 )
- July 23 : Jean Dewasne , French painter, sculptor and author (* 1921 )
- July 23 : Josef Ludwig Holub , Czech botanist (* 1930 )
- July 23 : Noël Lancien , French composer and conductor (* 1934 )
- July 25 : Alexander Abian , American mathematician (* 1923 )
- July 28 : Alfons Dalma , Croatian-Austrian journalist (* 1919 )
- July 28 : Trygve Haavelmo , Norwegian economist (* 1911 )
- July 28 : Puey Ungphakorn , Thai economist, administrative specialist and university lecturer (* 1916 )
- July 28th : Manfred Schmidt , comic artist and humorous travel writer (* 1913 )
- July 29 : Anita Carter , American country and folk singer (* 1933 )
- July 29 : Tsuji Kunio , Japanese writer and university professor (* 1925 )
August
- August 1st : Paris Pişmiş , Turkish-Armenian astronomer (* 1911 )
- August 2 : Meisei Gotō , Japanese writer (* 1932 )
- August 3 : Abdulwahab Al-Bayyati , Iraqi poet (* 1926 )
- August 4th : Liselott Linsenhoff , German dressage rider (* 1927 )
- August 4 : Victor Mature , American film actor (born 1913 )
- August 6 : Hermann Blei , German criminal law scholar (* 1929 )
- August 7th : Rafael Sánchez Cestero , Dominican singer (* 1912 )
- August 8 : Rupert Stöckl , German painter (* 1923 )
- August 9 : Rodrigo Riera , Venezuelan guitarist and composer (* 1923 )
- August 10 : Ernesto Augusto de Melo Antunes , Portuguese officer (* 1933 )
- August 10 : Albert Mülleder , Austrian organist and vicariate cantor (* 1961 )
- August 10 : Fritz Westheider , German handball player, handball trainer and athlete (* 1909 )
- August 11 : Hendrick Chin A Sen , President of Suriname (* 1934 )
- August 13 : Ignatz Bubis , Chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (* 1927 )
- August 17 : Eberhard Cohrs , German comedian and actor (* 1921 )
- August 17th : Reiner Klimke , German dressage rider and politician (CDU) (* 1936 )
- August 18 : Alfred Bickel , Swiss football player and coach (* 1918 )
- August 18 : Alan Connell , American racing car driver and rancher (* 1923 )
- August 21 : Christer Grewin , Swedish sound engineer and composer (* 1941 )
- August 21 : Erwin Hegemann , German artist (* 1924 )
- August 21 : Hans von Herwarth , German diplomat and author (* 1904 )
- August 21 : Juan Carlos Zorzi , Argentine composer and conductor (* 1936 )
- August 22 : Sheila Och , children's book author (* 1940 )
- August 23 : James White , author (born 1928 )
- August 24 : Roberto Bussinello , Italian racing driver (* 1927 )
- August 24 : Alexandre Lagoya , classical guitarist (* 1929 )
- August 25 : Georg Thomalla , German actor (* 1915 )
- August 27 : Hélder Câmara , Archbishop of Olinda and Recife (* 1909 )
- August 29 : Giuseppe Pattoni , Italian motorcycle racer, mechanic and entrepreneur (* 1926 )
- August 29 : Emeline Hill Richardson , American archaeologist (* 1910 )
September
- September 1st : Richard Stevens , author of Unix textbooks (* 1951 )
- September 2 : Eliška Kleinová , Czech piano teacher (* 1912 )
- September 4 : Georg Gawliczek , German football player and coach (* 1919 )
- September 4 : Gertrud Heinzelmann , Swiss lawyer and Catholic theologian (* 1914 )
- September 7th : Thierry Claveyrolat , French cyclist (* 1959 )
- September 8 : Lagumot Harris , Nauruan politician and president (* 1938 )
- September 8 : Moondog , American composer (* 1916 )
- September 8 : Karl Schiess , German CDU politician, 1972–1978 Minister of the Interior v. Baden-Württemberg (* 1914 )
- September 10 : Alfredo Kraus , Spanish opera singer (* 1927 )
- September 12 : Alfred Leo Abramowicz , American bishop (* 1919 )
- September 13 : Benjamin Bloom , American university professor (born 1913 )
- September 13 : Walter Stürm , Swiss escape king in the 1970s to 1990s (* 1942 )
- September 14th : Attila Bozay , Hungarian composer (* 1939 )
- September 14 : André Kostolany , American financial expert, journalist and writer (* 1906 )
- September 15 : Jean Mésange , French racing driver (* 1928 )
- September 15 : Horst Ludwig Meyer , German terrorist of the RAF (* 1956 )
- September 16 : Elsie Attenhofer , Swiss cabaret artist, actress, writer and diseuse (* 1909 )
- September 17th : Ellen Frank , German actress and dancer (* 1904 )
- September 18 : Leo Amberg , Swiss cyclist (* 1912 )
- September 18 : Dieter Diekmann , German politician (* 1940 )
- September 20 : Waltraud Ahrndt , German writer and translator (* 1933 )
- September 20 : Raissa Maximowna Gorbacheva , Russian sociologist, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (* 1932 )
- September 20 : Willy Millowitsch , German theater actor and Cologne original (* 1909 )
- September 21 : Hotsuki Ozaki , Japanese author and literary critic (* 1928 )
- September 22nd : George C. Scott , American actor, director and producer (born 1927 )
- September 25 : Marion Zimmer Bradley , American writer (born 1930 )
- September 29 : Johannes Gross , German publicist and journalist (* 1932 )
October
- October 1 : Lena Zavaroni , British singer (* 1963 )
- October 2 : Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani , Albanian scholar (* 1914 )
- October 2 : Johannes Hanselmann , regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria (* 1927 )
- October 2 : Heinz G. Konsalik , German writer (* 1921 )
- October 2 : Lee Lozano , American painter, concept and performance artist (* 1930 )
- October 3 : Hilario González , Cuban composer, pianist, musicologist and music teacher (* 1920 )
- October 4 : Bernard Buffet , French graphic artist and painter (* 1928 )
- October 4 : Art Farmer , American jazz trumpeter (* 1928 )
- October 5 : Marie-Madeleine Duruflé , French organist (* 1921 )
- October 6th : Amália Rodrigues , Portuguese fado singer (* 1920 )
- October 7 : David A. Huffman , American computer pioneer (born 1925 )
- October 9 : Morris L. West , Australian writer (born 1916 )
- October 11 : Fakir Baykurt , Turkish educator and writer (* 1929 )
- October 11 : Leo Lionni , graphic artist, painter and author (* 1910 )
- October 11 : Zbigniew Wiszniewski , Polish composer and music teacher (* 1922 )
- October 12 : Wilt Chamberlain , American basketball player (born 1936 )
- October 12 : Miura Ayako , Japanese writer (* 1922 )
- October 12 : Udo Steinke , German-speaking writer (* 1942 )
- October 13 : Franz Matter , Swiss actor and director (* 1931 )
- October 14 : Julius Nyerere , Tanzanian politician (* 1922 )
- October 14 : Manfred Wolter , German author and screenwriter (* 1938 )
- October 15 : Torsten Lilliecrona , Swedish actor (* 1921 )
- October 17 : Franz Peter Wirth , German director (* 1919 )
- October 18 : John Cannon , Canadian racing driver (born 1933 )
- October 18 : Herbert Heckmann , German writer (* 1930 )
- October 18 : Erik Wallenberg , Swedish inventor (* 1915 )
- October 19 : Auður Auðuns , Icelandic lawyer and politician (* 1911 )
- October 19 : Ottfried Hennig , German politician (* 1937 )
- October 19 : Nathalie Sarraute , Russian-French lawyer and writer (* 1900 )
- October 20 : Hans Georg Amsel , German entomologist (* 1905 )
- October 21 : Lars Bo , Danish artist and writer (* 1924 )
- October 21 : John Bromwich , Australian tennis player (* 1918 )
- October 21 : Horst Krüger , German writer (* 1919 )
- October 24 : Patrick Dankwa Anin , Ghanaian politician (* 1928 )
- October 24 : Heinz Lieberich , legal historian and archivist (* 1905 )
- October 25 : Payne Stewart , American golfer (born 1957 )
- October 26 : Hoyt Axton , American country musician (born 1938 )
- October 26 : Rex Gildo , German singer and actor (* 1936 )
- October 27 : Rafael Alberti , Spanish poet (* 1902 )
- October 27 : Robert L. Mills , American physicist (* 1927 )
- October 27 : Wasken Sarkissjan , Armenian Prime Minister (* 1959 )
- October 28 : Robert Linn , American composer and music teacher (* 1925 )
- October 30 : Detlev Meyer , German poet (* 1948 )
- October 31 : Howard Ferguson , Irish composer (* 1908 )
- October 31 : Greg Moore , Canadian racing car driver (* 1975 )
November
- November 2 : Milan Antal , Slovak astronomer (* 1935 )
- November 2 : Hans-Joachim Preil , German playwright, director and comedian (* 1923 )
- November 5 : James Goldstone , American film director, film producer and screenwriter (* 1931 )
- November 5 : Noureddin Kianouri , Iranian politician (* 1915 )
- November 7th : Primo Nebiolo , Italian sports official (* 1923 )
- November 8th : Lester Bowie , jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer (* 1941 )
- November 8 : Leon Štukelj , Slovenian gymnast, Olympic champion (* 1898 )
- November 9 : José de Jesús Aguilera Rodríguez , Mexican bishop (* 1931)
- November 9th : Claude Ballot-Léna , French racing driver (* 1936 )
- November 11th : Mary Kay Bergman , American voice actress with small acting roles (* 1961 )
- November 11th : Vivian Fuchs , British geologist and polar explorer (* 1908 )
- November 11 : Jacobo ben Nathan Timmerman , Argentine publisher, journalist and author (* 1923 )
- November 14 : Erich Hornsmann , German lawyer, non-fiction author and environmentalist (* 1909 )
- November 14th : Peter Wildeblood , British-Canadian author, journalist and television producer (* 1923 )
- November 14 : Hans Winter , German mechanical engineer and university lecturer (* 1921 )
- November 16 : Daniel Nathans , American microbiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize Winner (* 1928 )
- November 17th : Enrique Urquijo , Spanish singer and composer (* 1960 )
- November 18 : Paul Bowles , American writer and composer (* 1910 )
- November 18 : Douglas Wayne Sahm , American country, blues and rock musician (* 1941 )
- November 19 : Smokey Joe Baugh , American pianist and country musician (* 1932 )
- November 19 : Max Worthley , Australian singer (tenor) and vocal teacher (* 1913 )
- November 20 : Peter Blauth , judge at the German Federal Court of Justice (* 1937 )
- November 20 : Erich Dittmann , German painter, graphic artist, draftsman (* 1916 )
- November 20 : Amintore Fanfani , Italian politician and Prime Minister (* 1908 )
- November 21 : Serge Lang , French sports journalist (* 1920 )
- November 22nd : Ibrahim Böhme , German politician (* 1944 )
- November 23 : Habib Bacha , Jordanian Archbishop of Beirut and Jbeil (* 1931 )
- November 23 : Ferdinand Strobel , Swiss Jesuit and church historian (* 1908 )
- November 24 : Fernando Fernández , Mexican actor, singer, screenwriter and director (* 1916 )
- November 25th : Didier Anzieu , French psychoanalyst (* 1923 )
- November 25th : Pierre Bézier , French engineer (* 1910 )
- November 27 : Alain Peyrefitte , French politician, member of the Académie française (* 1925 )
- November 29 : Herbert Freudenberger , German psychoanalyst (* 1926 )
- November 30th : Craig Siebert , American racing driver (* 1950 )
- November 30th : Ulrich Wildgruber , German actor (* 1937 )
December
- December 1 : Fritz Fischer , German historian (* 1908 )
- December 3 : Eckart Afheldt , German military (* 1921 )
- December 3 : Scatman John , American scat singer (* 1942 )
- December 5 : Ella Büchi , Swiss actress (* 1929 )
- December 8 : Günter von Roden , historian and archivist and city archive director in Duisburg (* 1913 )
- December 10th : Franjo Tuđman , Croatian President (* 1922 )
- December 11th : Hans Ziegler , space pioneer (* 1911 )
- December 12 : Joseph Heller , American writer (* 1923 )
- December 13 : Ian Watt , British literary critic and literary historian (* 1917 )
- December 14 : Ingo Schubert , German doctor, university professor and politician (* 1927 )
- December 15 : Rune Andréasson , Swedish comic artist and animator (* 1925 )
- December 15 : Georges Aeby , Swiss football player (* 1913 )
- December 15 : Gerhard Audorf , German athlete and civil engineer (* 1927 )
- December 17th : Paolo Dezza , Italian Order General, Cardinal (* 1901 )
- December 18 : Robert Bresson , French film director (* 1901 )
- December 18 : Hans Ernst Schneider , German literary scholar (* 1909 )
- December 19 : Desmond Llewelyn , British actor (born 1914 )
- December 20 : Giorgio Ansoldi , Italian filmmaker (* 1913 )
- December 20 : Erich Arp , German politician (* 1909 )
- December 20 : Manuel Rueda , Dominican writer and pianist (* 1921 )
- December 20 : Hank Snow , Canadian country singer (born 1914 )
- December 24th : Maurice Couve de Murville , French politician (* 1907 )
- December 24th : Grete Stern , German photographer and designer (* 1904 )
- December 25 : Jerzy Tchórzewski , Polish painter, graphic artist and art teacher (* 1928)
- December 26th : Curtis Mayfield , American soul musician (* 1942 )
- December 26th : Shankar Dayal Sharma , Indian politician and President (* 1918 )
- December 28th : Franco Castellano , Italian director and screenwriter (* 1925 )
- December 30th : Peter Caesar , German politician (* 1939 )
- December 30th : Sarah Knauss , American age record holder (* 1880 )
- December 30th : Fritz Leonhardt , German civil engineer for bridges and television towers (* 1909 )
- December 31 : Elliot L. Richardson , American politician (* 1920 )
Day unknown
- Robert Fergus , American racing driver (* 1924 )
- Guillermo Arellano Moraga , Chilean football player (* 1908 )
- Klaus Lafrenz , German art collector (* around 1941)
- Ray Scott , American rockabilly musician (* 1929 )
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : Gerardus' t Hooft and Martinus JG Veltman
- Chemistry : Ahmed H. Zewail
- Medicine : Günter Blobel
- Literature : Günter Grass
- Nobel Peace Prize : Doctors Without Borders
- Economics : Robert Mundell
Individual evidence
- ^ European Central Bank: Joint Declaration on Gold Holdings. bundesbank.de, September 26, 1999, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; accessed on August 19, 2019 .