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