Centuries:
Year in Review 20th Century (
19th century -
20th century -
21st century)
Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s - 1990s - 2000s 2010s? 2020s? 2030s? 2040s?
Years: 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 - 1999 - 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
International Year of Older Persons
Events
- Kosovo War
- Former child star Gary Coleman files for bankruptcy
- Y2K preparation was the biggest event in 1999 both in actual events and in media over-reporting.
Births
Deaths
- February 7 - [King Hussein]? of Jordan, aged 63
- March 7 - Stanley Kubrick, aged 70, American film director
- March 12 - [Yehudi Menuhin]?, aged 82, American violinist
- June 16 - Screaming Lord Sutch, aged 58, founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party
- May 8 - [Dirk Bogarde]?, aged 78, English actor ([Death in Venice]?)
- June 5 - [Mel Torme]?, aged 73, American singer
- November 18 - [Paul Bowles]?, aged 88, American novelist ([The Sheltering Sky]?)
- December 3, 1997 - Abe Bluestein, a lifelong anarchist, dies, aged 88. http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/AbeBluestein.htm
- December 12 - [Joseph Heller]?, aged 76, American novelist ([Catch 22]?)
- December 19 - [Desmond Llewelyn]?, aged 85, British actor, 'Q' in the James Bond movies
Sport
Nobel Prizes