January 10, 1999 – Sanjeev Nanda kills three policemen in New Delhi with his car, an act for which he was later acquitted, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the Indian legal system.

January 21, 1999 – War on Drugs: In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 4300 kg of cocaine on board.

February 16, 1999 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rabbit in Chinese astrology.

March 8, 1999 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.

March 28, 1999 – Kosovo War: Serb paramilitary and military forces kill 146 Kosovo Albanians in the Izbica massacre.

July 6, 1999 – U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgender showgirl and former Navy Corpsman Calpernia Addams.

August 31, 1999 – A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.

October 12, 1999 – The Day of Six Billion: The proclaimed 6 billionth living human in the world is born.

December 31, 1999 – The United States Government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties.

January 18, 1999 – Karan Brar, American actor

March 13, 1999 – Wiktoria Gąsiewska, Polish actress

March 19, 1999 – Tatum McCann, American actress

March 25, 1999 – Tatum McCann, American actress

May 5, 1999 – Nathan Chen, American figure skater

July 20, 1999 – Princess Alexandra of Hanover

August 22, 1999 – Dakota Goyo, Canadian Actor

August 28, 1999 – Prince Nikolai of Denmark, Danish royalty

September 4, 1999 – Kali Majors, American actress

September 29, 1999 – Juan Valentín Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal