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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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

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.

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