1999
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Ancient Olympiads' not found. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar, the 1999th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 999th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1990s decade.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
Decades: | 1960s 1970s 1980s – 1990s – 2000s 2010s 2020s |
Years: | 1996 1997 1998 – 1999 – 2000 2001 2002 |
Events
January
- January 4 – Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (b. 1904)
- January 11 – Fabrizio De André, Italian singer and songwriter (b. 1940)
- January 11 – Brian Moore, Irish-born writer (b. 1921)
- January 14 – Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933)
- January 21 – Susan Strasberg, American actress (b. 1938)
- January 22 – Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
- January 25 – Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (b. 1924)
- January 25 – Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
- January 28 – Markey Robinson, Irish painter (b. 1918)
- January 30 – Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
- January 31 – Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)
February
- February 1 – Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (b. 1907)
- February 1 – Barış Manço, Turkish singer and television personality (b. 1943)
- February 5 – Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
- February 6 – Jimmy Roberts, American singer (b. 1924)
- February 6 – Don Dunstan, Australian politician (b. 1926)
- February 6 - Danny Dayton, American actor (b. 1923)
- February 7 – King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
- February 8 – Iris Murdoch, Irish writer (b. 1919)
- February 12 – Toni Fisher, American pop singer (b. 1931)
- February 14 – John Ehrlichman, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1925)
- February 14 – Buddy Knox, American singer (b. 1933)
- February 15 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
- February 15 – Big L, American rapper (b. 1974)
- February 17 – Sunshine Parker, American actor (b. 1927)
- February 18 – Noam Pitlik, American actor and director (b. 1932)
- February 18 – Michael Larson, American game show celebrity (b. 1949)
- February 20 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
- February 20 – Gene Siskel, American movie critic (b. 1946)
- February 21 – Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1918)
- February 22 – William Bronk, American poet (b. 1918)
- February 24 – Andre Dubus, American short-story writer (b. 1936)
- February 24 – Virginia Foster Durr, American civil rights activist (b. 1903)
- February 24 – Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (b. 1916)
- February 25 – Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
- February 26 – José Quintero, Panamanian director (b. 1924)
- February 28 – Bill Talbert, American tennis player (b. 1918)
March
- March 1 – Ann Corio, American dancer and actress (b. 1914)
- March 2 – Dusty Springfield, English singer (b. 1939)
- March 3 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- March 4 – Harry Blackmun, American judge (b. 1908)
- March 4 – Del Close, American actor, writer, and teacher (b. 1934)
- March 5 – Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
- March 6 – Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Emir of Bahrain (b. 1933)
- March 7 – Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (b. 1918)
- March 7 – Stanley Kubrick, American movie director and producer (b. 1928)
- March 8 – Peggy Cass, American actress (b. 1924)
- March 8 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914)
- March 12 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (b. 1916)
- March 13 – Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1912)
- March 17 – Ernest Gold, Austrian-born composer (b. 1921)
- March 18 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (b. 1914)
- March 18 – Rod Hull, British entertainer (b. 1935)
- March 21 – Ernie Wise, British comedian (b. 1925)
- March 24 – Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
- March 25 – Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball player and manager (b. 1935)
- March 29 – Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)
- March 31 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and epigrapher (b. 1922)
April
- April 3 – Lionel Bart, English composer (b. 1930)
- April 4 – Faith Domergue, American actress (b. 1924)
- April 10 – Jean Vander Pyl, American television actress (b. 1919)
- April 12 – Boxcar Willie, American country music singer (b. 1931)
- April 14 – Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)
- April 14 – Anthony Newley, English actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1931)
- April 20 – Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
- April 20 – Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist (b. 1896)
- April 21 – Charles Rogers, American actor (b. 1904)
- April 25 – Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, 6th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1914)
- April 25 – Herman Miller, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1919)
- April 27 – Al Hirt, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1922)
- April 27 – Cyril Washbrook, English cricketer (b. 1914)
- April 28 – Rory Calhoun, American television and movie actor (b. 1922)
- April 28 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
- April 30 – Alf Ramsey, English football manager (b. 1920)
May
- May 2 – Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
- May 8 – Dirk Bogarde, English actor (b. 1921)
- May 10 – Shel Silverstein, American writer and poet (b. 1930)
- May 10 – Eric Willis, Australian politician, former Premier of New South Wales (b. 1922)
- May 12 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born cartoonist (b. 1914)
- May 13 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
- May 17 – Henry Jones, American actor (b. 1912)
- May 18 – Betty Robinson, American athlete (b. 1911)
- May 23 – Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1965)
- May 26 – Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
June
- June 5 – Mel Tormé, American singer (b. 1925)
- June 6 – Anne Haddy, Australian actress (b. 1930)
- June 8 – Christina Foyle, British bookshop owner (b. 1911)
- June 9 – Maurice Journeau, French composer (b. 1898)
- June 11 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920)
- June 16 – Screaming Lord Sutch, English politician (b. 1940)
- June 27 – Jorgos Papadopoulos, military ruler of Greece (b. 1919)
- June 29 – Allan Carr, American producer (b. 1937)
July
- July 1 – Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American movie director (b. 1908)
- July 1 – Guy Mitchell, American singer (b. 1927)
- July 1 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
- July 2 – Mario Puzo, American writer (b. 1920)
- July 6 – Carl Gunter Jr, American politician (b. 1938)
- July 6 – Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)
- July 8 – Charles Conrad, American astronaut (b. 1930)
- July 11 – Helen Forrest, American jazz singer (b. 1917)
- July 12 – Bill Owen, English actor (b. 1914)
- July 16 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer and son of John F. Kennedy (b. 1960)
- July 18 – Meir Ariel, Israeli singer (b. 1942)
- July 20 – Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916)
- July 23 – King Hassan II of Morocco (b. 1929)
- July 26 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- July 29 – Anita Carter, American singer (b. 1933)
- July 29 – Rajendra Kumar, Indian movie actor, producer and director (b. 1929)
August
- August 1 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Bengali writer (b. 1897)
- August 3 – Leroy Vinnegar, American musician (b. 1928)
- August 4 – Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)
- August 11 – Hendrick Chin A Sen, 2nd President of Suriname (b. 1934)
- August 13 – Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian (b. 1960)
- August 14 – Lane Kirkland, American union leader (b. 1922)
- August 14 – Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (b. 1918)
- August 23 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b. 1926)
- August 23 – James White, Irish writer (b. 1928)
- August 24 – Mary Jane Croft, American actress (b. 1916)
September
- September 5 – Allen Funt, American television personality (b. 1914)
- September 5 – Alan Clark, English politician and diarist (b. 1928)
- September 6 – Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician and former President (b. 1938)
- September 9 – Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
- September 10 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (b. 1927)
- September 11 – Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguyan race car driver (b. 1972)
- September 12 – Allen Stack, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1928)
- September 14 – Charles Crichton, English movie director (b. 1910)
- September 20 – Raisa Gorbachyova, Soviet first lady (b. 1932)
- September 22 – George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
- September 23 – Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (b. 1910)
October
- October 6 – Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese Fado legend (b. 1920)
- October 6 – Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler and announcer (b. 1937)
- October 7 – Helen Vinson, American actress (b. 1907)
- October 8 – John McLendon, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
- October 9 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani pioneer in microcredit and microfinance (b. 1914)
- October 9 – Milt Jackson, American musician (b. 1923)
- October 11 – Rafi' Daham Al-Tikriti, Director of the Iraqi Intelligence Service (b. 1937)
- October 12 – Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (b. 1936)
- October 14 – Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania (b. 1922)
- October 18 – Paddi Edwards, American actress (b. 1931)
- October 19 – Harry Bannink, Dutch composer and musician (b. 1929)
- October 19 – James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917)
- October 20 – Jack Lynch, Prime Minister of Ireland (b. 1917)
- October 21 – Lars Bo, Danish artist and writer (b. 1924)
- October 21 – John Bromwich, Australian tennis player (b. 1918)
- October 24 – John Chafee, American politician (b. 1922)
- October 25 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (b. 1957)
- October 26 – Rex Gildo, German singer (b. 1939)
- October 26 – Hoyt Axton, American actor and singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
- October 26 – Abraham Polonsky, American screenwriter and director (b. 1910)
- October 27 – Frank De Vol, American composer (b. 1911)
- October 27 – Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
- October 27 – Wes Berggren, American musician (b. 1971)
- October 31 – Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver (b. 1975)
November
- November 1 – Theodore Hall, American physicist and spy (b. 1925)
- November 3 – Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
- November 9 – Mabel King, American actress (b. 1932)
- November 11 – Mary Kay Bergman, American actress (b. 1961)
- November 15 – Gene Levitt, American television writer, producer, and director (b. 1920)
- November 16 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1928)
- November 18 – Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910)
- November 18 – Horst P. Horst, German-American photographer (b. 1906)
- November 18 – Doug Sahm, American musician (b. 1941)
- November 30 – Amintore Fanfani, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1908)
- November 21 – Quentin Crisp, English writer (b. 1908)
- November 21 – Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah ibn Baaz, Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia. (b. 1910)
- November 24 – Hilary Minster, British Actor (b. 1944)
- November 29 – Gene Rayburn, American television personality (b. 1917)
- November 29 – Iwamoto Kaoru, Japanese professional Go player (b. 1902)
- November 30 – Charlie Byrd, American Jazz musician and classical guitarist (b. 1925)
December
- December 2 – Joey Adams, American comedian (b. 1911)
- December 3 – Scatman John, American musician (b. 1942)
- December 3 – Jarl Wahlström, Salvation Army general (b. 1918)
- December 3 – Madeline Kahn, American actress (b. 1942)
- December 4 – Rose Bird, American judge (b. 1936)
- December 8 – Péter Kuczka, Hungarian writer (b. 1923)
- December 10 – Rick Danko, Canadian musician (b. 1943)
- December 10 – Shirley Hemphill, American actress (b. 1947)
- December 10 – Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (b. 1922)
- December 12 – Paul Cadmus, American artist (b. 1904)
- December 12 – Joseph Heller, American novelist (b. 1923)
- December 17 – Rex Allen, American actor, singer, and songwriter (b. 1920)
- December 17 – Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
- December 18 – Robert Bresson, French movie maker (b. 1901)
- December 19 – Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (b. 1914)
- December 19 – Robert Dougall, British newsreader (b. 1913)
- December 20 – Irving Rapper, American movie director (b. 1898)
- December 20 – Hank Snow, Canadian musician (b. 1914)
- December 23 – John P. Davies, American diplomat (b. 1908)
- December 24 - Maurice Couve de Murville, Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
- December 24 – João Figueiredo, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
- December 24 – Tito Guízar, Mexican singer and movie actor (b. 1908)
- December 26 – Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India (b. 1918)
- December 26 – Curtis Mayfield, American musician and composer (b. 1942)
- December 27 – Leonard Goldenson, American television executive (b. 1905)
- December 28 – Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)
- December 30 – Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer (b. 1909)
- December 30 – Sarah Knauss, American oldest living person (b. 1880)
- December 31 – Elliot Richardson, American Attorney General under Richard Nixon (b. 1920)
Deaths
Movies released
- 8mm
- 8 1/2 Women
- End of Days
- Eyes Wide Shut
- Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
- The Green Mile
- The Matrix
- Tarzan
- South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
- The World Is Not Enough
- Wild Wild West
- Office Space
- The Sixth Sense
- Notting Hill
- American Beauty
- Toy Story 2
Hit songs
- ...Baby One More Time – Britney Spears
- Genie in a Bottle – Christina Aguilera
- Livin' la Vida Loca – Ricky Martin
- Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...) – Lou Bega
- I Need To Know – Marc Anthony
- Believe – Cher
- No Scrubs - TLC
- Angel – Sarah McLachlan
- Kiss Me – Sixpence None The Richer
- You'll Be in My Heart – Phil Collins
- Steal My Sunshine - Len
- New – No Doubt
- Smooth – Santana featuring Rob Thomas
- All Star – Smash Mouth
- That Don't Impress Me Much – Shania Twain
- Amazed - Lonestar
New books
- All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life – Winona LaDuke
- Atomised – Michel Houellebecq
- Battle Royale – Koushun Takami
- Blind Eye – James B. Stewart
- The Century – Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster
- Le Chambre des Officiers (The Officers' Ward) – Marc Dugain
- Charlotte Gray – Sebastian Faulks
- Chocolat – Joanne Harris
- Cunt – Stewart Home
- Darwin's Radio – Greg Bear
- A Deepness in the Sky – Vernor Vinge
- Death du Jour – Kathy Reichs
- Dining with Peggy Guggenheim – Jane Turner Rylands
- Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee
- The Fifth Elephant – Terry Pratchett
- Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star – Kelly R. Brown
- The Fortune Catcher – Susanne Pari
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon – Stephen King
- Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
- Hannibal – Thomas Harris
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J. K. Rowling
- Hearts in Atlantis – Stephen King
- High Time to Kill – Raymond Benson
- Holes – Louis Sachar
- In America – Susan Sontag
- Invisible Monsters – Chuck Palahniuk
- Irresistible Forces – Danielle Steel
- A Lake Beyond the Wind – Yahya Yakhlif
- The Mark of the Angel – Nancy Huston
- Miss Wyoming – Douglas Coupland
- One of the Guys – Robert Clark Young
- Paradise – Toni Morrison
- Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain – Jeffrey Moore
- Rulers Of Evil – F. Tupper Saussy
- Sick Puppy – Carl Hiaasen
- Single & Single – John le Carré
- Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson
- Star Wars: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace – Terry Brooks
- Scattered Like Seeds – Shaw J. Dallal
- Soul Harvest – Jerry B. Jenkins & Tim LaHaye
- Survivor – Chuck Palahniuk
- Suzanne Valadon: The Mistress of Montmartre – June Rose
- Syrup – Max Barry
- 'Tis – Frank McCourt
- Tara Road – Maeve Binchy
- Temple – Matthew Reilly
- The Testament – John Grisham
- The World Is Not Enough – Raymond Benson
- Through the Stones – Diana Gabaldon
- Timeline – Michael Crichton