* Some Times in America: and a life in a year at the New Yorker by Alexander Chancellor ( 1999 )

This was the case with Chancellor Gerhard Schröder from 1999 until he resigned the chairmanship of the SPD in 2004.

Later film roles of note include those of suffragist Olive Chancellor in The Bostonians ( 1984, a fourth Best Actress Academy Award nomination ), transsexual tennis player Renée Richards in Second Serve ( 1986 ); Mrs. Wilcox in Howards End ( 1992, her sixth Academy Award nomination, this time in a supporting role ); crime boss Max in Mission: Impossible ( 1996, when discussing the role of Max, DePalma and Cruise thought it would be fun to cast an actor like Redgrave ; they then decided to go with the real thing ); Oscar Wilde ’ s mother in Wilde ( 1997 ); Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway ( 1997 ); and Dr. Sonia Wick in Girl, Interrupted ( 1999 ).

Following the Conservative Party's defeat in the 1997 General Election, Howard unsuccessfully made a bid for the post of Conservative Party leader and held the posts of Shadow Foreign Secretary ( 1997 – 1999 ) and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer ( 2001 – 2003 ).

Patten was Chancellor of Newcastle University from 1999 to 2009, and was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 2003.

Returning to the Commons through a by-election in Kensington and Chelsea in 1999, Portillo rejoined the front bench as Shadow Chancellor, although his relationship with Conservative Leader William Hague was strained.

Also in 1999, Stamp appeared in the blockbuster Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace as Chancellor Finis Valorum, followed by Bowfinger ( 1999 ), and Red Planet ( 2000 ).

He served for five years in the Cabinet, firstly as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1998 to 1999, and subsequently as Secretary of State for Health until 2003, when he resigned, citing a lack of balance with his family life, before briefly rejoining it as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in order to manage Labour's 2005 re-election campaign.

Peter Mansbridge received his first honorary degree in 1999 from Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick where he currently serves as Chancellor.

However, future Chancellor George Osborne was selected in March 1999, as Conservative party candidate for Tatton.

The beginnings of the war are first portrayed in the 1999 film The Phantom Menace as the Trade Federation invades the planet of Naboo, causing Naboo's Senator Palpatine to win the sympathy vote to become Supreme Chancellor.

On 4 February 2000 Wolfgang Schüssel was sworn in as Chancellor, following a defeat in the 1999 election, after which his party ended up trailing Jörg Haider's Freedom Party ( FPÖ ) by 415 votes.

In opposition, he held the post of Shadow Chancellor from 1997 to 1998 and was Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party from 1998 to 1999.

* Appointed Chancellor of the University of Leeds ( 1999 )

" She was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999 and a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2000.

Appointed a Labour Whip in 1995 by Tony Blair, on Labour entering government in May 1997 she continued in the role into government, before becoming PPS to the Minister for Trade ( 1998 – 1999 ), and then PPS to the Lord Chancellor ( 1999 – 2001 ), leaving government in 2001 to become a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee ( 2001 – 2003 ).

Healey served as a member of the education and employment select committee from 1997 until he became the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown in 1999.

He was sacked in 1999 amid speculation that his close association with and perceived loyalty to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown eventually cost him his government job, and he became an increasingly outspoken backbencher.

Dyke was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University in 1999 and has been Chancellor since 2004.

He was Bundesgeschäftsführer ( executive director ) of the national SPD from 1995 to 1998, and after holding briefly the post of Minister of Transportation and Construction in the first cabinet of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, he was the first to hold the new post of SPD General Secretary from 1999 to 2002, and thereafter became leader of the SPD fraction in the Bundestag.

He was the Chancellor of Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1999 to 2009.

* December 25 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1999 )

* The American Presidency Project: State of the Union Messages " Established in 1999 as a collaboration between John Woolley and Gerhard Peters at the University of California, Santa Barbara ," currently ( January 2010 ), the APP " archives contain 87, 448 documents related to the study of the Presidency.

* Kubik, Gerhard 1999.

Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, ( December 25, 1904 – March 3, 1999 ) was a German-Canadian pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, " for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals ".

Later recipients include Arthur Compton ( 1954 ), Hermann Hesse ( 1954 ), Albert Schweitzer ( 1954 ), Thomas Mann ( 1955 ), Oskar Kokoschka ( 1955 ), Carl Orff ( 1956 ), Erwin Schrödinger ( 1956 ), Thornton Wilder ( 1956 ), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff ( 1956 ), Werner Heisenberg ( 1957 ), Gerhard Ritter ( 1957 ), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( 1957 ), Percy Ernst Schramm ( 1958 ), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ( 1961 ), Karl Jaspers ( 1964 ), Otto Klemperer ( 1967 ), Carl Zuckmayer ( 1967 ), Henry Moore ( 1972 ), Raymond Aron ( 1973 ), George F. Kennan ( 1976 ), Friedrich Hayek ( 1977 ), Karl Popper ( 1980 ), Eugène Ionesco ( 1983 ), Hans Bethe ( 1984 ), Gordon A. Craig ( 1990 ), Rudolf Mößbauer ( 1996 ), Umberto Eco ( 1998 ), Hans Magnus Enzensberger ( 1999 ), and Wim Wenders ( 2005 ).

In 1999, Stanford President Gerhard Casper appointed Hennessy to succeed Condoleezza Rice as Provost of Stanford University.

Past winners include: Film and theater director Peter Brook ( 1992 ), Choreographer Merce Cunningham and composer John Cage ( 1993 ), Artist Bruce Nauman ( 1994 ), Choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer ( 1995 ), Filmmaker Martin Scorsese ( 1996 / 97 ), Painter Gerhard Richter ( 1998 ), Sculptor Louise Bourgeois ( 1999 ), Artist Robert Rauschenberg ( 2000 ), Architect Renzo Piano ( 2001 ), Choreographer William Forsythe ( 2002 ), Designer Issey Miyake ( 2004 ), Choreographer Bill T. Jones ( 2005 ), and Filmmaker Spike Lee ( 2008 ).

He succeeded Gerhard Schröder as Prime Minister of Lower Saxony from October 28, 1998 until November 26, 1999.

On 15 December 1999, after the resignation of Gerhard Glogowski, who had succeeded Gerhard Schröder in office, Gabriel became Minister-President of Lower Saxony and served until 4 March 2003.

* Silly + Gundermann & Seilschaft Unplugged, 1999 — Live album with Gerhard Gundermann, recorded in Potsdam in 1994

" Fischer's claims set off the so-called " Fischer Controversy " of the early 1960s when German historians led by Gerhard Ritter attempted to rebut Fischer, but, as the Australian historian John Moses noted in 1999, the documentary evidence introduced by Fischer is extremely persuasive in arguing that Germany was responsible for World War I.

*" THE STRAD " Oct. 1999, p. 1023: „ The ´ Kreutzer ´ was not written in A major “/ Gerhard Präsent, London

Gerhard Thiele and Hans Schlegel were the first two German astronauts to be included in the European Astronaut Corps in 1998 ; 1999 Reinhold Ewald joined as well.

Ableton was founded in 1999 by Gerhard Behles, Robert Henke of Monolake and Bernd Roggendorf.

* Gerhard Herzberg ( 1904 – 1999 ), chemist, physicist and Nobel laureate ( 1971 )

Robert Gerhard Neumann ( January 2, 1916 – June 18, 1999 ) was a United States politician and ambassador.

In 1999 Lambsdorff was appointed as the federal envoy to the negotiations for the compensation of the victims of forced labor in Germany during World War II by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, which led to the establishment of the Foundation " Remembrance, Responsibility and Future ".

In April 1999, he hosted an historic Third Way forum in Washington with President Clinton, Prime Minister Blair, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Prime Ministers Wim Kok of the Netherlands and Massimo D ' Alema of Italy.

He became BMW Motorsport Director alongside Gerhard Berger in April 1999 with oversight of BMW's Formula One team and other motorsport activities, including BMW's factory entries in the World Touring Car Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

In the wake of the 1999 scandal, as well as rising discontent with Schröder's federal cabinet, the Christian Democrats rose in the opinion polls and became a serious contender for power in the 2003 assembly election.