* 1912 – Glenn Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1999 )

Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom ( Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999 ), argues that third world development must be understood as the expansion of human capability, not simply the increase in national income per capita, and thus requires policies attuned to health and education, not simply GDP.

* 1926 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1999 )

* Nobel Lectures in Chemistry, Volume 1, World Scientific ( 1999 ) ISBN 981-02-3405-8

* 1999: The Esperanto poet William Auld is nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

* 1921 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1999 )

In 1999 he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture.

* 1928 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1999 )

He was awarded the 1999 Nobel prize for his findings.

* January 23 – Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1999 )

** Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1999 )

* December 9 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1999 )

* April 19 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1999 )

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

* October 30 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1999 )

* May 5 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( died 1999 )

Ahmed Zewail () ( born February 26, 1946 ) is an Egyptian chemist, and the winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry.

In 1999, Zewail became the third Egyptian to receive the Nobel Prize, following Anwar Sadat ( 1978 in Peace ) and Naguib Mahfouz ( 1988 in Literature ).

* Martinus J. G. Veltman ( 1999 Nobel prize winner in physics, born in Waalwijk )

Joined by Nobel Prize winner and former National Institutes of Health director Harold Varmus, the PLoS organizers next turned their attention to starting their own journal, along the lines of the UK-based BioMed Central, which has been publishing open-access scientific papers in the biological sciences in journals such as Genome Biology and the Journal of Biology since late 1999.

A key academic critic of productivism is Amartya Sen, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Economics.

He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999, 2004, and 2006 making him the first and only person to be nominated for works in Esperanto.

He was a past president of the Italian chapter of Médecins Sans Frontières and was one of the individuals who accepted the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of that organization.

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 ".

After facilitator Julius Nyerere's death in October 1999, the regional leaders appointed Nelson Mandela as Facilitator of the Arusha peace process.

The regional embargo was lifted on January 23, 1999, based on progress by the government in advancing national reconciliation through the Burundi peace process.

But in 1999, the first full year of peace in 30 years, progress was made on economic reforms and growth resumed at 4 %.

In December 1999, through the mediation efforts of President Bongo, a peace accord was signed in Congo-Brazzaville between the government and most leaders of an armed rebellion.

* 1999 – Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.

Zambia was active in the Congolese peace effort after the signing of a cease-fire agreement in Lusaka in July and August 1999, although activity diminished considerably after the Joint Military Commission tasked with implementing the ceasefire relocated to Kinshasa in September 2001.

* O ' Brien, Bruce R .: God's peace and king's peace: the laws of Edward the Confessor, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8122-3461-8

However, the conflict resumed in 1999, thus rendering the 1997 peace accord meaningless.

Between 1998 and 1999, peace was broken again, when the situation in Kosovo worsened with continued clashes between Yugoslav security forces and the KLA.

In 1999 Australian peace keeping forces intervened in East Timor following its referendum to secede from Indonesia.

In late 1998 and early 1999, Vajpayee began a push for a full-scale diplomatic peace process with Pakistan.

With the historic inauguration of the Delhi-Lahore bus service in February 1999, Vajpayee initiated a new peace process aimed towards permanently resolving the Kashmir dispute and other conflicts with Pakistan.

* Beth Weigand-Graduate of Chilhowee High School in 1999, went on to learn Spanish while in the peace corps and influence hundreds with her proven teaching style.

With the government forces in ascendancy and following peace agreements in 1999, elections were re-scheduled for 2002, although not all rebel groups signed the accords.

* In the 1999 American Vietnamese language film Three Seasons, James Hager, played by Harvey Keitel, searches for his Vietnamese Amerasian daughter in hopes of " coming to peace with this place ".

From 1999, Helton served as program director of peace and conflict studies and senior fellow for refugee studies and preventive action at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

( link doesn't work ) In 1999, Downer played a key role in assisting the United Nations to hold a referendum in East Timor and in negotiating the entry of the INTERFET peace keeping force into East Timor.

The installation of the transitional government was part of the peace agreement to end the country's second civil war, which had raged since the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy ( LURD ) rebelled against President Charles Taylor in 1999.

Once again, in pursuit of peace, President Kabbah signed the Lomé Peace Accord with the RUF rebel leader Foday Sankoh on 7 July 1999.

In December 1999, Dileita was charged with negotiating a peace agreement with a faction of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ); the negotiations led to the signing of an agreement in February 2000.

In a 1999 interview regarding the political situation on the Temple Mount, Sabri stated, " If the Jews want peace, they will stay away from Al Aksa.

Supporters and opponents of the democratic peace agree that this is bad use of statistics, even if a plausible case can be made for the correction ( Bremer 1992 ), ( Gleditsch 1995 ), ( Gowa 1999 ).

In 1999, Peace Action opposed the NATO bombing of Kosovo, which it described as " cruise missile humanitarianism ", and founded the National Coalition for Peace and Justice, a body uniting most of the major peace groups in the country.