January 7, 1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.

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

February 23, 1999 – Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.

March 5, 1999 – Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.

May 25, 1999 – The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People’s Republic of China’s nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.

May 29, 1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.

July 16, 1999 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., piloting a Piper Saratoga aircraft, dies when his plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. His wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are also killed.

August 26, 1999 – Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.

September 12, 1999 – Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.

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 5, 1999 – Marc Yu, American musician

January 18, 1999 – Karan Brar, American actor

March 19, 1999 – Tatum McCann, American actress

March 25, 1999 – Tatum McCann, American actress

May 28, 1999 – Cameron Boyce, American child actor

July 20, 1999 – Princess Alexandra of Hanover

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

September 4, 1999 – Kali Majors, American actress

October 15, 1999 – Bailee Madison, American child actress

December 16, 1999 – Bryce Robinson, American actor