1999

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

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International Year of Older Persons

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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 12 - [Joseph Heller]?, aged 76, American novelist ([Catch 22]?)
• December 19 - [Desmond Llewelyn]?, aged 85, British actor, 'Q' in the James Bond movies

Sport

• January 31 - Super Bowl XXXIII Denver Broncos (34) def. Atlanta Falcons (19)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [Gerardus 't Hooft]?, [Martinus J.G. Veltman]?
• Chemistry - [Ahmed H Zewail]?
• Medicine - [[Günter Blobel]]
• Literature - [Günter Grass]?
• Peace - Doctors Without Borders
• Economics - [Robert Mundell]?