Medical Hypotheses, April 1999 ; 53 ( 4 ): 338 – 344.

* 1999 – Kwesi Boakye, American actor

* 1999 – US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving " intentionally false statements " in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.

* 1917 – Helen Forrest, American singer ( d. 1999 )

* 1999 – Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) bringing the number of members to 10.

* 1916 – Robert Shaw, American conductor ( d. 1999 )

* 1945 – Jan Sloot, Dutch inventor ( d. 1999 )

* 1910 – Charles Crichton, English director ( d. 1999 )

* 1926 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter ( d. 1999 )

* 1925 – David A. Huffman, American computer scientist, developed the Huffman coding ( d. 1999 )

* 1904 – Charles " Buddy " Rogers, American actor and trombonist ( d. 1999 )

* 1930 – Wilmer Mizell, American baseball player ( d. 1999 )

* 1935 – Rod Hull, English comedian and actor ( d. 1999 )

* 1999 – Jesse Stone, American musician and songwriter ( b. 1901 )

* 1912 – Henry Jones, American actor ( d. 1999 )

* 1930 – Lionel Bart, English composer ( d. 1999 )

* 1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist ( d. 1999 )

* 1999 – Byron Farwell, American historian ( b. 1921 )

Antarctic fisheries in 1998 – 1999 ( July 1-June 30 ) reported landing 119, 898 tonnes.

A total of 10, 013 tourists visited in the 1998 – 1999 summer, up from the 9, 604 who visited the previous year.

* Josef Stanglmeier ( 1918 – 1999 ): builder and politician

* 1999 – The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades the neighboring Russian Dagestan.

* 1910 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress ( d. 1999 )

* 1922 – Rory Calhoun, American actor ( d. 1999 )

* 1939 – Dusty Springfield, English singer ( The Lana Sisters and The Springfields ) ( d. 1999 )

American author Acharya S in The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold ( 1999 ) argues that Jesus and Christianity were created by members of various secret societies, mystery schools and religions to unify the Roman Empire under one state religion, and that these people drew on numerous myths and rituals which existed previously and then constructed them into Christianity that exists today.

The World Movement for Nonviolence was founded in 1998 by Bawa Jain, son of Acharya Sushil Kumarji Maharaj, began presenting the Gandhi-King Award in 1999.

* The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Acharya S ( introduction by Kenn Thomas ), AUP, US, 1999, paperback, ISBN 0-932813-74-7

* 1958 – Malcolm Marshall, Indian cricketer ( d. 1999 )

During the course of the hijack of Indian Airlines Flight 814 in 1999, the Taliban requested recognition by India in exchange for help in negotiations.

* 1912 – Kusumagraj, Vishnu Vāman Shirwādkar, Indian writer ( d. 1999 )

* 1999 – Vikram Batra, Indian army officer and Param Vir Chakra recipient ( b. 1974 )

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

* Interviewed by Indian Express in 1999

* 1999 – Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

* 1999 – A magnitude 6. 8 earthquake strikes the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.

The Ecological Indian: Myth and History, New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.

* 1897 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer ( d. 1999 )

In late December 1999, Musharraf's dealt with his first international crisis when India accused Pakistan's involvement in the Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking.

Submarine cables to Indonesia and Djibouti ; satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat ( Indian Ocean ) ( 1999 )

* 1999: Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacked.

* December 2 – Prabhakar Thokal, Indian cartoonist ( d. 1999 )

Unlike the United States Lanham Act, 1946 the English Trade Marks Act, 1994 and the Indian Act, 1999 do not have provisions like section 43 ( a ) ( of Lanham Act ) to protect un-registered trade dress or allow registration of trade dress which qualifies the tests of distinctiveness and source identifier.

* Mast ( film ), a 1999 Indian movie by Ram Gopal Verma

The device was designed by the Simputer Trust, a non-profit organization formed in November 1999 by seven Indian scientists and engineers led by Dr. Swami Manohar.

This pollution layer was observed during the Indian Ocean Experiment ( INDOEX ) intensive field observation in 1999 and described in the UNEP impact assessment study published 2002.

* Autographs of Indian Personalities by S. S. Hitkari, Phulkari Pub., 1999, 112 pages.

Category: West Indian cricketers of 1970 – 71 to 1999 – 2000

Since 1999, Percy Barnevik is involved, both as a major donor and as an adviser, in the Indian charity organisation Hand in Hand and their programmes to eliminate rural poverty.

Later films include The Indian in the Cupboard ( 1995 ), In & Out ( 1997 ), Bowfinger ( 1999 ), The Score ( 2001 ), the 2004 remake of The Stepford Wives, and the original Death at a Funeral ( 2007 ).

Operation Vijay ( 1999 ), launched in June 1999, saw the Indian military fighting thousands of militants and soldiers amidst heavy artillery shelling and while facing extremely cold weather, snow and treacherous terrain at the high altitude.