• Craig Atkinson, drummer with garage-rock group The Count Five (b. 1947)

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Templeton Prize

• Ian Barbour

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Nobel prizes

• Physics - Gerardus 't Hooft, Martinus J.G. Veltman
• Chemistry - Ahmed H. Zewail
• Physiology or Medicine - Günter Blobel
• Literature - Günter Grass
• Peace - Médecins Sans Frontières
• Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - Robert Mundell

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Fictional

The year 1999 in fiction and popular culture:

• Computer/video games:
  • Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (Castlevania series, 2003): Julius Belmont is finally able to defeat Dracula for good and seal away his Castle.
  • Chrono Trigger (1995): The apocalyptic Day of Lavos takes place.
  • Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (1990) is set in 1999.
  • Silent Scope 2: Dark Silhouette (2000): The first stage takes place in 1999. The remainder of the game is set in 2000.
  • The Extraterrestrial Combat Unit, known as X-COM is founded following a meeting on December 11th 1998, going fully operational on January 1st 1999. This sets the stage for the events depicted in UFO: Enemy Unknown.
• Film:
  • Released after 1999 and set in the historical year:
    • Blood Diamond (2006)
    • Alpha Dog (2006)
  • Released in 1999 and stated to take place in that year:
    • Entrapment (1999): The film takes place during the week leading up to December 31.
    • End of Days (1999): The film involves Satan's plot to conquer the earth on New Year's Eve of '99
    • The Matrix (1999): The year within the Matrix is said to be 1999.
    • Fight Club (1999) The year within Fight Club is said to be 1999, just before the

beginning of the Millennium.

Contents 1 Events of 1999 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 2 No date 3 Births 4 Deaths 4.1 January-June 4.2 July-December 4.3 Unknown dates 5 Templeton Prize 6 Nobel prizes 7 Fictional 8 See also 9 Notes 10 External links

• • Released before 1999 and set in the "future" year:
    • Strange Days (1995): The film takes place leading up to New Year's Eve, 1999.
    • Class of 1999 II: The Substitute (1994)
    • Until the End of the World (1991)
    • Class of 1999 (1990)
    • Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974)
    • Destroy All Monsters (1968)
    • 2001: A Space Odyssey (film) (1968): The first scenes of the future takes place in the year 1999.
• Music:
  • Prince's 1982 song "1999" is about "party like it's 1999."
• Television:
  • Futurama ("Space Pilot 3000," 1999): Philip J. Fry is cryogenically frozen at 11:59 P.M., December 31.
  • Space: 1999 (1975-1977): A huge explosion sends the Moon hurtling out of Earth's orbit on September 13.
  • The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982-1983): A huge spaceship appears high above Earth and crashes into an island in the Pacific, triggering a world war.
  • Three Super Sentai series — Choujin Sentai Jetman (1991-1992), Chouriki Sentai Ohranger (1995-1996), and Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGo-V (1999-2000) — take place in 1999.
  • Hunter x Hunter (TV Anime Series) (1999-2001) Gon Freecs, a young boy, is aiming to become a Hunter to search for his father. He meets some new friends during the Exam, and the struggles he must face on his quest will be beyond anything he's ever imagined.
  • In Kamen Rider Kabuto (2006-2007), 1999 is the year in which a meteor struck the city of shibuya and also spawned the Worm, an alien race that forms the main antagonist in the series. In the movie based on the show, the meteor was much bigger and also dried up the oceans, resulting in a post-apocalyptic world

• • In the TV series of Quantum Leap (1988-1993) project Quantum Leap is said to be launched in New Mexico, 1999.

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See also

• 20th century

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External links

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