What happened in 1999
400 entries recorded for 1999, listed by date. That was 27 years ago.
1999 at a glance
- Years ago
- 27 (as of 2026)
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- Breakdown
- 119 historical events · 275 births · 6 deaths
January
- January 1
Euro
The Euro currency is introduced in 11 member nations of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden).
- January 1
Azmy Qowimuramadhoni
Azmy Qowimuramadhoni, Indonesian-Azerbaijani badminton player
- January 1
Tomás Chancalay
Tomás Chancalay, Argentine footballer
- January 2
Aaron Wiggins
Aaron Wiggins, American professional basketball player
- January 2
Georgios Kalaitzakis
Georgios Kalaitzakis, Greek basketball player
- January 2
Fernando Tatís Jr.
Fernando Tatís Jr., Dominican baseball player
- January 3
Mars Polar Lander
The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
- January 4
Jesse Ventura
Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota, United States.
- January 4
Collin Sexton
Collin Sexton, American basketball player
- January 4
Wessam Abou Ali
Wessam Abou Ali, Palestinian footballer
- January 4
Jan-Niklas Beste
Jan-Niklas Beste, German footballer
- January 4
Nico Hischier
Nico Hischier, Swiss ice hockey player
- January 4
Jaeman Salmon
Jaeman Salmon, Australian rugby league player
- January 4
Daniel Arzani
Daniel Arzani, Iranian-Australian footballer
- January 5
Filip Ugrinić
Filip Ugrinić, Swiss footballer
- January 5
Mattias Svanberg
Mattias Svanberg, Swedish footballer
- January 6
Mac McClung
Mac McClung, American basketball player
- January 6
Polo G
Polo G, American rapper
- January 7
Impeachment of Bill Clinton
The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
- January 8
Damiano David
Damiano David, Italian singer-songwriter
- January 8
Ignas Brazdeikis
Ignas Brazdeikis, Lithuanian-Canadian basketball player
- January 10
Youssouf Fofana (footballer, born 1999)
Youssouf Fofana, French footballer
- January 10
Mason Mount
Mason Mount, English footballer
- January 11
Lim Sung-jin
Lim Sung-jin, South Korean volleyball player
- January 11
Jeanette Hegg Duestad
Jeanette Hegg Duestad, Norwegian sport shooter
- January 11
Brandon Wakeham
Brandon Wakeham, Australian-Fijian rugby league player
- January 12
Xavier Tillman
Xavier Tillman, American basketball player
- January 12
Tyler Roberts
Tyler Roberts, Welsh footballer
- January 14
D'Andre Swift
D'Andre Swift, American football player
- January 14
Emerson Royal
Emerson Royal, Brazilian footballer
- January 14
Declan Rice
Declan Rice, English footballer
- January 17
Little Saigon, Orange County
In Little Saigon, California, a series of protests began when the owner of a video rental store displayed an image of Ho Chi Minh.
- January 17
Isa Briones
Isa Briones, American actor and singer
- January 18
Gary Trent Jr.
Gary Trent Jr., American basketball player
- January 18
Djorkaeff Reasco
Djorkaeff Reasco, Ecuadorian footballer
- January 18
Tee Higgins
Tee Higgins, American football player
- January 18
Mateus Ward
Mateus Ward, American actor
- January 18
Karan Brar
Karan Brar, American actor
- January 19
British Aerospace
British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
- January 19
Jonathan Taylor
Jonathan Taylor, American football player
- January 19
Donyell Malen
Donyell Malen, Dutch footballer
- January 21
War on drugs
War on drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4,300 kilograms (9,500 lb) of cocaine on board.
- January 21
Alisha Lehmann
Alisha Lehmann, Swiss footballer
- January 21
Fūju Kamio
Fūju Kamio, Japanese actor
- January 21
Rubina Ali
Rubina Ali, Indian actress
- January 22
Graham Staines
Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
- January 22
Andrew Thomas (American football)
Andrew Thomas, American football player
- January 23
Alban Lafont
Alban Lafont, French footballer
- January 24
Niki (singer)
Niki, Indonesian singer and songwriter
- January 24
Vitalie Damașcan
Vitalie Damașcan, Moldovan footballer
- January 24
Tristan Wirfs
Tristan Wirfs, American football player
- January 25
Moment magnitude scale
A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000.
- January 26
Travis Etienne
Travis Etienne, American football player
- January 26
Leonardo Balerdi
Leonardo Balerdi, Argentine footballer
February
- February 1
Mohamed Abdelmonem
Mohamed Abdelmonem, Egyptian footballer
- February 2
Jeff Okudah
Jeff Okudah, American football player
- February 3
Kanna Hashimoto
Kanna Hashimoto, Japanese actress
- February 4
Killing of Amadou Diallo
Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot 19 times by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
- February 4
New York City Police Department
Four plain-clothes New York City police officers shot and killed Amadou Diallo, an unarmed 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea, prompting outrage both in and outside the city.
- February 4
New Carissa
The Philippine-flagged freighter New Carissa ran aground near Coos Bay, Oregon, causing one of the worst oil spills in the state's history.
- February 4
MJ Lenderman
MJ Lenderman, American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
- February 7
Abdullah II of Jordan
Abdullah II became the reigning King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan following the death of his father King Hussein.
- February 7
Omar Marmoush
Omar Marmoush, Egyptian footballer
- February 8
Alessia Russo
Alessia Russo, English footballer
- February 10
Tiffany Espensen
Tiffany Espensen, American actress
- February 11
Pluto
Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune's orbit again until 2231.
- February 12
Bill Clinton
United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
- February 14
Tyler Adams
Tyler Adams, American soccer player
- February 15
Abdullah Öcalan
Abdullah Öcalan, one of the founding members of the militant organization the Kurdistan Workers' Party, was arrested by Turkish security forces in Nairobi, Kenya.
- February 16
Ignatius Ganago
Ignatius Ganago, Cameroonian footballer
- February 16
Girl in Red
Marie Ulven Ringheim, Norwegian singer, songwriter and music producer
- February 20
Jarrett Culver
Jarrett Culver, American basketball player
- February 21
Metawin Opas-iamkajorn
Metawin Opas-iamkajorn, Thai actor and singer
- February 22
Harry Brook
Harry Brook, English cricketer
- February 23
Avalanche
An avalanche buries the town of Galtür, Austria, killing 31.
- February 23
Kurds
Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
- February 24
China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509
China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, crashes in Rui'an, Zhejiang, China. All 61 people on board are killed.
- February 25
Minerva Airlines Flight 1553
Alitalia Flight 1553 crashes at Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport in Genoa, Italy, killing four.
- February 25
Gianluigi Donnarumma
Gianluigi Donnarumma, Italian footballer
- February 25
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)
- February 25
Matvey Safonov
Matvey Safonov, Russian footballer
- February 25
Rocky (singer)
Rocky, South Korean singer, dancer and songwriter
- February 28
Luka Dončić
Luka Dončić, Slovenian basketball player
March
- March 1
Brogan Hay
Brogan Hay, Scottish footballer
- March 1
Oswaldo Cabrera
Oswaldo Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
- March 2
Iñaki Peña
Iñaki Peña, Spanish footballer
- March 2
Isiah Pacheco
Isiah Pacheco, American football player
- March 3
Corey Kispert
Corey Kispert, American basketball player
- March 4
Brooklyn Beckham
Brooklyn Beckham, English model and socialite
- March 5
Justin Fields
Justin Fields, American football player
- March 5
Yeri (singer)
Yeri, South Korean singer and actress
- March 5
Madison Beer
Madison Beer, American singer-songwriter
- March 6
Ylena In-Albon
Ylena In-Albon, Swiss tennis player
- March 7
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)
- March 7
Sidney Gottlieb
Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (born 1918)
- March 8
Nathan McSweeney
Nathan McSweeney, Australian cricketer
- March 9
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, Finnish ice hockey player
- March 10
Cole Kmet
Cole Kmet, American football player
- March 10
Oswaldo Guayasamín
Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (born 1919)
- March 12
Warsaw Pact
Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
- March 14
Marvin Bagley III
Marvin Bagley III, American basketball player
- March 14
Olivia Dean
Olivia Dean, English singer-songwriter
- March 16
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Canadian baseball player
- March 18
Diogo Dalot
Diogo Dalot, Portuguese footballer
- March 19
Nico Collins
Nico Collins, American football player
- March 20
Legoland California
Legoland California, the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California, US.
- March 21
Bertrand Piccard
Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
- March 22
Mick Schumacher
Mick Schumacher, German racing driver
- March 23
Paraguay
Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
- March 24
Mont Blanc Tunnel fire
A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel, creating an inferno that kills 39 people.
- March 24
Kosovo War
Kosovo War: NATO begins attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
- March 24
Katie Swan
Katie Swan, English tennis player
- March 25
Mikey Madison
Mikey Madison, American actress
- March 26
Jack Kevorkian
A jury began deliberations in the trial of Jack Kevorkian, an American practitioner of physician-assisted suicide who was charged with murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.
- March 27
Kosovo War
Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav Army SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat.
- March 27
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia: A U.S. Air Force F-117 stealth aircraft was shot down by a Yugoslav Army unit.
- March 27
Alex O'Connor
Alex O'Connor, English media personality
- March 27
Jesser
Jesser, American YouTuber
- March 28
Kosovo War
Kosovo War: Serbian police and special forces killed around 93 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica.
- March 29
Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
- March 29
1999 Chamoli earthquake
The Chamoli earthquake, one of the strongest to hit the foothills of the Himalayas in more than 90 years, killed at least 100 people.
- March 31
Luca Pizzul
Luca Pizzul, Italian professional footballer
- March 31
Denys Strekalin
Denys Strekalin, Ukrainian-born pair skater
- March 31
Japhet Tanganga
Japhet Tanganga, English footballer
- March 31
Edon Zhegrova
Edon Zhegrova, professional footballer
- March 31
Adele Tan
Adele Tan, Singaporean sports shooter
- March 31
Jens Odgaard
Jens Odgaard, Danish professional footballer
- March 31
Ballou Tabla
Ballou Tabla, Canadian professional soccer player
- March 31
Jonas Røndbjerg
Jonas Røndbjerg, Danish ice hockey player
- March 31
Adam Chrzanowski
Adam Chrzanowski, Polish professional footballer
- March 31
Santiago Chocobares
Santiago Chocobares, Argentine rugby union player
- March 31
Brooke Scullion
Brooke Scullion, Irish Singer
- March 31
Nuno Pina
Nuno Pina, Portuguese football player
- March 31
Shiann Salmon
Shiann Salmon, Jamaican track and field athlete
- March 31
Ben Williams (footballer, born 1999)
Ben Williams, Welsh professional footballer
- March 31
Elžbieta Kropa
Elžbieta Kropa, Lithuanian figure skater
- March 31
Sander Raieste
Sander Raieste, Estonian professional basketball player
April
- April 1
Nunavut
Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
- April 1
Gabe Davis
Gabe Davis, American football player
- April 3
Chanel Harris-Tavita
Chanel Harris-Tavita, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player
- April 5
History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi
Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
- April 5
Bobby Miller (baseball)
Bobby Miller, American baseball player
- April 7
Turkish Airlines Flight 5904
Turkish Airlines Flight 5904 crashes near Ceyhan in southern Turkey, killing six people.
- April 8
CeeDee Lamb
CeeDee Lamb, American football player
- April 9
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of Niger, was shot dead by soldiers in Niamey.
- April 9
Stanley Nsoki
Stanley Nsoki, French footballer
- April 9
Rúben Vinagre
Rúben Vinagre, Portuguese footballer
- April 9
Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X, American rapper
- April 12
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, an American McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle shoots a passenger train, killing between 20 and 60 people.
- April 12
Bill Clinton
United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred.
- April 13
András Schäfer
András Schäfer, Hungarian footballer
- April 13
Alessandro Bastoni
Alessandro Bastoni, Italian footballer
- April 14
1999 Sydney hailstorm
A storm dropped around 500,000 tonnes of hailstones on Sydney (examples pictured) and the east coast of New South Wales, causing about A$2.3 billion in damages, the costliest natural disaster in Australian insurance history.
- April 14
NATO
NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.
- April 14
Chase Young
Chase Young, American football player
- April 19
Bundestag
The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
- April 19
Sebastian Kris
Sebastian Kris, Australian-NewZealand rugby league player
- April 20
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
Students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold carried out a massacre at Columbine High School, killing 13 people before committing suicide.
- April 20
Columbine High School massacre
Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 14 people and injure 23 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
- April 21
Choi Hyun-suk
Choi Hyun-suk, South Korean rapper
- April 21
Charles "Buddy" Rogers
Buddy Rogers, American actor (born 1904)
- April 23
NATO
NATO bombs the headquarters of Radio Television of Serbia, as part of their aerial campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- April 23
Laufey (singer)
Laufey, Icelandic singer-songwriter and musician
- April 23
Chaeyoung
Son Chaeyoung, South Korean rapper and singer-songwriter
- April 24
Jerry Jeudy
Jerry Jeudy, American football player
- April 24
Ziyu He
Ziyu He, Chinese violinist
- April 26
CIH (computer virus)
The CIH virus activated widely, damaging hundreds of thousands of computers and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.
- April 27
Peter Hola
Peter Hola, Australian rugby league player
- April 28
Taber, Alberta
A 14-year-old former student in Taber, Alberta, opened fire at his high school, killing one student and wounding another in Canada's first fatal school shooting in more than two decades.
- April 29
Mateo Retegui
Mateo Retegui, Argentine-Italian footballer
- April 30
1999 London nail bombings
Neo-Nazi David Copeland carries out the last of his three nail bombings in London at the Admiral Duncan gay pub, killing three people and injuring 79 others.
- April 30
Jorden van Foreest
Jorden van Foreest, Dutch chess grandmaster
- April 30
Krit Amnuaydechkorn
Krit Amnuaydechkorn, Thai actor and singer
May
- May 1
Tiffany Stratton
Tiffany Stratton, American wrestler
- May 1
YNW Melly
YNW Melly, American rapper
- May 2
1999 Panamanian general election
Panamanian general election: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
- May 2
Mireya Moscoso
Mireya Moscoso (pictured) became the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
- May 3
Kargil War
The Kargil War initiates when Indian forces detected the infiltration of Pakistani forces in Indian-administered Kargil, a city in Jammu and Kashmir.
- May 3
Oklahoma City
The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded,
- May 3
Doppler on Wheels
A Doppler on Wheels team measured the fastest winds recorded on Earth, at 143.6 m/s (321 mph; 517 km/h), in a tornado near Bridge Creek, Oklahoma.
- May 3
Tom Hartley (cricketer)
Tom Hartley, English cricketer
- May 3
Ella Langley
Ella Langley, American singer-songwriter
- May 5
Nathan Chen
Nathan Chen, American figure skater
- May 5
Justin Kluivert
Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer
- May 6
Devolution
The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
- May 6
Pato O'Ward
Pato O'Ward, Mexican racing driver
- May 7
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
- May 7
Guinea-Bissau
In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
- May 7
Kosovo War
Kosovo War: NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
- May 7
Cody Gakpo
Cody Gakpo, Dutch footballer
- May 7
Tommy Fury
Tommy Fury, English boxer
- May 9
Mother's Day bus crash
Mother's Day bus crash kills 22 passengers and injures another 22, including the driver in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
- May 11
Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Carpenter, American singer and actress
- May 12
Hiroki Itō (footballer, born 1999)
Hiroki Itō, Japanese footballer
- May 13
Kosovo War
Kosovo War: NATO bombs the village of Koriša, killing at least 87 people.
- May 13
Óscar Mingueza
Óscar Mingueza, Spanish footballer
- May 13
Aníbal Moreno
Aníbal Moreno, Argentine footballer
- May 15
Anastasia Gasanova
Anastasia Gasanova, Russian tennis player
- May 18
Laura Omloop
Laura Omloop, Belgian singer-songwriter
- May 22
Samuel Chukwueze
Samuel Chukwueze, Nigerian footballer
- May 22
Femke Huijzer
Femke Huijzer, Dutch model
- May 22
Hōshōryū Tomokatsu
Hōshōryū Tomokatsu, Mongolian sumo wrestler
- May 23
Owen Hart
Professional wrestler Owen Hart died immediately before a World Wrestling Federation match after dropping 70 feet (21 m) onto the ring during a botched entrance.
- May 23
James Charles
James Charles, American internet personality
- May 23
Trinidad Cardona
Trinidad Cardona, American singer and songwriter
- May 23
Sandro Mamukelashvili
Sandro Mamukelashvili, Georgian-American basketball player
- May 24
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
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 24
Tarjei Sandvik Moe
Tarjei Sandvik Moe, Norwegian actor
- May 25
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
- May 25
Ibrahima Konaté
Ibrahima Konaté, French footballer
- May 25
Brec Bassinger
Brec Bassinger, American actress
- May 26
Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United won the UEFA Champions League final to become the first English football club to win three major championships in the same season.
- May 26
Georgia Wareham
Georgia Wareham, Australian cricketer
- May 26
Micah Parsons
Micah Parsons, American football player
- May 27
Space Shuttle Discovery
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-96, the first shuttle mission to dock with the International Space Station.
- May 27
Lily-Rose Depp
Lily-Rose Depp, French-American actress and model
- May 27
Matheus Cunha
Matheus Cunha, Brazilian footballer
- May 28
Milan
In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
- May 28
Cameron Boyce
Cameron Boyce, American actor (died 2019)
- May 28
Jodie Burrage
Jodie Burrage, British tennis player
- May 29
Space Shuttle Discovery
Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
- May 29
Olusegun Obasanjo
President Olusegun Obasanjo took office as Nigeria's first elected and civilian head of state after 16 years of military dictatorship.
- May 29
Charlotte Perrelli
Charlotte Perrelli, representing Sweden, won the Eurovision Song Contest, the first edition not to feature an orchestra or live accompaniment.
- May 29
Park Ji-hoon
Park Ji-hoon, South Korean actor and singer
- May 30
Nyamiha stampede
53 people are killed in a stampede at the Nyamiha metro station in Minsk, Belarus.
- May 30
Zhou Guanyu
Guanyu Zhou, Chinese race car driver
- May 30
Eddie Nketiah
Eddie Nketiah, English footballer
June
- June 1
Clinton National Airport
On landing at Little Rock National Airport in the U.S. state of Arkansas, American Airlines Flight 1420 overran the runway and crashed (wreckage pictured), resulting in 11 deaths.
- June 1
American Airlines Flight 1420
American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
- June 1
Technoblade
Technoblade, American YouTuber and streamer (died 2022)
- June 1
Dmytro Udovychenko
Dmytro Udovychenko, Ukrainian violinist
- June 2
Campbell Graham
Campbell Graham, Australian rugby league player
- June 3
Dzhem Yamenov
Dzhem Yamenov, Bulgarian politician
- June 3
Cameron Green
Cameron Green, Australian cricketer
- June 4
Kim So-hyun
Kim So-hyun, South Korean actress
- June 4
Drew Pavlou
Drew Pavlou, Australian activist
- June 9
Kosovo War
Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
- June 9
Yugoslav Wars
Yugoslav Wars: The Kumanovo Agreement was signed, bringing an end to the Kosovo War the next day.
- June 10
Kosovo War
Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
- June 10
Rafael Leão
Rafael Leão, Portuguese footballer
- June 10
Blanche (singer)
Blanche, Belgian singer
- June 11
Eartha Cumings
Eartha Cumings, Scottish footballer
- June 11
Kai Havertz
Kai Havertz, German footballer
- June 12
Kosovo War
Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force, Kosovo Force (KFor), enters the province of Kosovo in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- June 12
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
In the aftermath of the bombing of Yugoslavia and the Kosovo War, the NATO-led Kosovo Force entered the territory with a mandate of establishing a secure environment.
- June 12
CarryMinati
CarryMinati, Indian YouTuber
- June 13
BMW
BMW win 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans.
- June 14
Tzuyu
Chou Tzuyu, Taiwanese singer
- June 16
Ibrahima Koné (footballer, born 1999)
Ibrahima Koné, Malian footballer
- June 16
Justin Jefferson
Justin Jefferson, American football player
- June 16
Snail Mail (musician)
Snail Mail, American singer-songwriter
- June 17
Henri Jokiharju
Henri Jokiharju, Finnish ice hockey player
- June 17
Elena Rybakina
Elena Rybakina, Russian-born Kazakhstani tennis player
- June 18
Arin (singer)
Choi Ye-won, South Korean singer and actress
- June 18
Trippie Redd
Trippie Redd, American rapper
- June 19
Jordan Poole
Jordan Poole, American basketball player
- June 20
Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Fadiman, American game show host, author, and critic (born 1902)
- June 21
Ky Rodwell
Ky Rodwell, Australian rugby league player
- June 22
Sam Retford
Sam Retford, Australian-English actor
- June 24
Darwin Núñez
Darwin Núñez, Uruguayan footballer
- June 26
Connor Dewar
Connor Dewar, Canadian ice hockey player
- June 27
Chandler Riggs
Chandler Riggs, American actor
- June 27
Will Levis
Will Levis, American football player
- June 28
Markéta Vondroušová
Markéta Vondroušová, Czech tennis player
July
- July 1
Scottish Parliament
The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh. In Wales, the powers of the Welsh Secretary are transferred to th
- July 1
Devolution in the United Kingdom
Legislative powers in Scotland were first devolved from the Scottish Office in London to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.
- July 3
Nefisa Berberović
Nefisa Berberović, Bosnian tennis player
- July 4
Moa Kikuchi
Moa Kikuchi, Japanese musician
- July 5
Bill Clinton
U.S. President Bill Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
- July 5
Suzan Lamens
Suzan Lamens, Dutch tennis player
- July 5
Kang Hye-won
Kang Hye-won, South Korean actress and singer
- July 7
Moussa Diaby
Moussa Diaby, French footballer
- July 8
İpek Öz
İpek Öz, Turkish tennis player
- July 9
1999 Iranian student protests
Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
- July 9
Claire Corlett
Claire Corlett, American voice actress
- July 10
Association football
In women's association football, the United States defeats China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Watched by 90,185 spectators, the final sets a new world record for attendance at a women's sportin
- July 10
United States women's national soccer team
The United States defeated China in the final match of the third FIFA Women's World Cup, setting records in both attendance and television ratings for women's sports.
- July 10
April Ivy
April Ivy, Portuguese composer and singer
- July 10
San (singer)
San, South Korean singer and dancer
- July 11
Braydon Trindall
Braydon Trindall, Australian rugby league player
- July 15
Mohamed Sobhy (footballer, born 1999)
Mohamed Sobhy, Egyptian footballer
- July 16
Jarred Kelenic
Jarred Kelenic, American baseball player
- July 18
Miro Heiskanen
Miro Heiskanen, Finnish ice hockey player
- July 19
Kim So-hye
Kim So-hye, South Korean actress and singer
- July 20
Persecution of Falun Gong
The Chinese Communist Party begins a persecution campaign against Falun Gong, arresting thousands nationwide.
- July 20
Pop Smoke
Pop Smoke, American rapper and singer (died 2020)
- July 20
Goga Bitadze
Goga Bitadze, Georgian basketball player
- July 21
Evan McPherson
Evan McPherson, American football player
- July 22
Sidney Chu
Sidney Chu, Hong Kong skater
- July 22
Jason Robertson
Jason Robertson, American ice hockey player
- July 23
1999 Tulia drug arrests
Forty-seven people were arrested in Tulia, Texas, for dealing cocaine; 35 of them were pardoned by the governor of Texas years later.
- July 23
Space Shuttle Columbia
Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
- July 23
All Nippon Airways Flight 61
ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
- July 24
Air Fiji Flight 121
Air Fiji flight 121 crashes while en route to Nadi, Fiji, killing all 17 people on board.
- July 26
Kargil War
Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
- July 28
GloRilla
GloRilla, American rapper
- July 30
Joey King
Joey King, American actress
- July 30
Tom Pidcock
Tom Pidcock, professional cyclist and Olympian
- July 31
Discovery Program
Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon's surface.
August
- August 2
Gaisal train collision
The Gaisal train disaster claims 285 lives in Assam, India.
- August 2
Mark (rapper)
Mark Lee, Korean-Canadian singer
- August 2
Anastasios Douvikas
Anastasios Douvikas, Greek footballer
- August 2
Joël Piroe
Joël Piroe, Dutch-Surinamese footballer
- August 3
Zach Wilson
Zach Wilson, American football player
- August 3
Yoo Yeon-jung
Yoo Yeon-jung, South Korean singer
- August 3
Brahim Díaz
Brahim Díaz, Spanish-Moroccan footballer
- August 5
Kim Si-hyeon
Kim Si-hyeon, South Korean singer
- August 6
Rebeka Masarova
Rebeka Masarova, Spanish-Swiss tennis player
- August 6
Hunter Greene
Hunter Greene, American baseball player
- August 7
Chechnya
The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
- August 7
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, American hurdler and sprinter
- August 8
Xiaojun
Xiaojun, Chinese singer
- August 9
Boris Yeltsin
Russian president Boris Yeltsin fires his prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
- August 9
Deniss Vasiļjevs
Deniss Vasiļjevs, Latvian figure skater
- August 10
1999 Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting
One person is killed and five people are injured in the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting.
- August 10
Nick Suzuki
Nick Suzuki, Canadian ice hockey player
- August 10
Ja Morant
Ja Morant, American basketball player
- August 10
Ritomo Miyata
Ritomo Miyata, Japanese racing driver
- August 11
Ken Levine (game developer)
Ken Levine's System Shock 2 was released to mediocre sales, but later received critical acclaim and influenced subsequent first-person shooter game design.
- August 11
1999 Salt Lake City tornado
A tornado struck downtown Salt Lake City, damaging 120 homes and injuring over 100 people.
- August 11
Gregoria Mariska Tunjung
Gregoria Mariska Tunjung, Indonesian badminton player
- August 11
Changbin
Changbin, South Korean rapper
- August 12
Jule Niemeier
Jule Niemeier, German tennis player
- August 12
Dream (YouTuber)
Dream, American YouTuber
- August 12
GK Barry
GK Barry, social media star and presenter
- August 12
Matthijs de Ligt
Matthijs de Ligt, Dutch footballer
- August 13
Act on National Flag and Anthem
The Act on National Flag and Anthem was adopted, formally establishing the Hinomaru and "Kimigayo" as the Japanese national flag and anthem, respectively.
- August 13
Lennon Stella
Lennon Stella, Canadian singer and actress
- August 15
Béni Ounif
Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
- August 15
Paola Reis
Paola Reis, BMX rider
- August 16
Karen Chen
Karen Chen, American figure skater
- August 17
1999 İzmit earthquake
The 7.6 Mw İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 17,118–17,127 dead and 43,953–50,000 injured.
- August 18
Cassius Stanley
Cassius Stanley, American basketball player
- August 19
Belgrade
In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
- August 19
Florentino Luís
Florentino Luís, Portuguese footballer
- August 19
Ethan Cutkosky
Ethan Cutkosky, American actor and musician
- August 19
Thomas Flegler
Thomas Flegler, Australian rugby league player
- August 21
Maxim Knight
Maxim Knight, American actor
- August 22
China Airlines Flight 642
China Airlines Flight 642 crashes at Hong Kong International Airport, killing three people and injuring 208 more.
- August 23
Saya Sakakibara
Saya Sakakibara, Australian cyclist
- August 26
Second Chechen War
Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
- August 26
Naz Reid
Naz Reid, American basketball player
- August 26
Kotoshōhō Yoshinari
Kotoshoho Yoshinari, Japanese sumo wrestler
- August 26
Rosa (sea otter)
Rosa, former sea otter at Monterey Bay Aquarium
- August 28
Soyuz TM-29
The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the space station Mir as it approaches the end of its life.
- August 31
1999 Russian apartment bombings
The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
- August 31
Líneas Aéreas Privadas Argentinas
A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
September
- September 1
Cam Reddish
Cam Reddish, American basketball player
- September 3
Rich Brian
Rich Brian, Indonesian rapper and singer
- September 5
Filip Chytil
Filip Chytil, Czech ice hockey player
- September 6
Parliament of Singapore
The Parliament of Singapore relocated from the Old Parliament House to its current meeting place (pictured).
- September 7
1999 İzmit earthquake
Three weeks after an earthquake struck northwestern Turkey, a second earthquake struck Athens, causing Greece and Turkey to initiate "earthquake diplomacy".
- September 7
1999 Athens earthquake
The 6.0 Mw Athens earthquake affects the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 143, injuring 800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless.
- September 7
Gracie Abrams
Gracie Abrams, American singer-songwriter
- September 7
Laurie Jussaume
Laurie Jussaume, Canadian cyclist
- September 8
Shubman Gill
Shubman Gill, Indian cricketer
- September 8
Vivianne Härri
Vivianne Härri, Swiss alpine skier
- September 8
Ellie Kildunne
Ellie Kildunne, English rugby player
- September 9
Singapore Portrait Series currency notes
The first banknotes of the Portrait Series of the Singapore dollar were introduced by the Board of Commissioners of Currency.
- September 10
Laura Taylor (swimmer)
Laura Taylor, Australian swimmer
- September 10
Jschlatt
jschlatt, American YouTuber and singer
- September 12
Jerome Ford
Jerome Ford, American football player
- September 13
Yeonjun
Yeonjun, South Korean singer, songwriter and dancer
- September 14
Kiribati
Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
- September 15
Jaren Jackson Jr.
Jaren Jackson Jr., American basketball player
- September 16
Brady Tkachuk
Brady Tkachuk, American ice hockey player
- September 17
Daniel Huttlestone
Daniel Huttlestone, English actor
- September 17
Jaimee Fourlis
Jaimee Fourlis, Australian tennis player
- September 19
Precious Achiuwa
Precious Achiuwa, Nigerian basketball player
- September 21
Moment magnitude scale
A 7.7 Mw earthquake struck Jiji, Taiwan, killing 2,415 people, injuring more than 11,000 others and causing about NT$300 billion (US$10 billion) in damage across the island.
- September 21
Naruto
The Japanese manga Naruto published its first chapter, later becoming one of the best-selling manga series.
- September 21
1999 Jiji earthquake
The 7.7-magnitude Chi-Chi earthquake strikes central Taiwan, killing 2,400 people.
- September 21
Alexander Isak
Alexander Isak, Eritrean-Swedish professional footballer
- September 21
Wang Junkai
Wang Junkai, Chinese singer
- September 22
Kim You-jung
Kim You-jung, South Korean actress
- September 22
Kim Yo-han
Kim Yo-han, South Korean singer and actor
- September 23
Qantas Flight 1
Qantas Flight 1 overruns a runway in Bangkok during a storm, causing minor injuries to some passengers.
- September 23
Yuqi
Song Yu-qi, Chinese singer
- September 28
Kayla Day
Kayla Day, American tennis player
- September 29
Choi Ye-na
Choi Ye-na, South Korean singer and dancer
- September 30
Tokaimura nuclear accidents
The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.
October
- October 5
Ladbroke Grove rail crash
Two trains collided head-on in Ladbroke Grove, London, killing 31 people, injuring 417, and severely damaging public confidence in the management and regulation of safety of Britain's privatised railway system.
- October 5
Washington Sundar
Washington Sundar, Indian cricketer
- October 6
Trevor Lawrence
Trevor Lawrence, American football player
- October 7
Ferdi Kadıoğlu
Ferdi Kadıoğlu, Turkish footballer
- October 8
Putthipong Assaratanakul
Putthipong Assaratanakul, Thai actor and singer
- October 8
Camila Rossi
Camila Rossi, Brazilian rhythmic gymnast
- October 11
Air Botswana
Air Botswana pilot Chris Phatswe steals an ATR 42 from Sir Seretse Khama International Airport and later crashes it into two other aircraft at the airport, killing himself.
- October 11
Leicester Faingaʻanuku
Leicester Fainga'anuku, New Zealand rugby union player
- October 11
Keldon Johnson
Keldon Johnson, American basketball player
- October 12
Pervez Musharraf
Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
- October 12
Abkhazia
The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.
- October 12
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Irish actor and musician
- October 13
Andrew Capobianco
Andrew Capobianco. American diver
- October 14
Quinn Hughes
Quinn Hughes, American ice hockey player
- October 15
Ben Woodburn
Ben Woodburn, Welsh footballer
- October 15
Bailee Madison
Bailee Madison, American-Canadian actress and singer
- October 16
1999 Hector Mine earthquake
The magnitude 7.1 Hector Mine earthquake strikes Southern California
- October 16
Aaron Nesmith
Aaron Nesmith, American basketball player
- October 16
Nicolò Bulega
Nicolò Bulega, Italian motorcycle racer
Questions about 1999
What happened in 1999?
This site records 400 entries for 1999, including Euro on January 1. They are listed below by date.
How long ago was 1999?
27 years ago, counting from 2026. Anyone born in 1999 turns 27 this year.
Which century is 1999 in?
1999 falls in the 20th century, in the 1990s.
Which generation was born in 1999?
Generation Z (1997–2012). First generation raised with smartphones and social media.
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