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1999 is a year in the 20th century. It is a common year.
[edit] Events
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
[edit] Films released
[edit] Hit songs
- "...Baby One More Time" - Britney Spears
- "Blue Monday" - Orgy
- "Free" - Dana International
- "All Star" - Smash Mouth
- "Angel" - Sarah McLachlan
- "Believe" - Cher
- "Freak On A Leash" - Korn
- "Genie in a Bottle" - Christina Aguilera
- "I Need To Know" - Marc Anthony
- "Kiss Me" - Sixpence None The Richer
- "Livin' La Vida Loca" - Ricky Martin
- "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)" - Lou Bega
- "New" - No Doubt
- "She's Got Issues" - The Offspring
- "Smooth" - Santana featuring Rob Thomas
- "Strangers Like Me" - Phil Collins
- "Take me to your heaven" - Charllote Nillsen
- "That Don't Impress Me Much" - Shania Twain
- "The Kid's Aren't Alright" - The Offspring
- "Why Don't You Get A Job?" - The Offspring
- "You'll Be In My Heart" - Phil Collins
[edit] New books
- All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life - Winona LaDuke
- Atomised - Michel Houellebecq
- Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
- Blind Eye - James B. Stewart
- The Century - Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster
- Le Chambre des Officiers (The Officers' Ward) - Marc Dugain
- Charlotte Gray - Sebastian Faulks
- Chocolat - Joanne Harris
- Cunt - Stewart Home
- Darwin's Radio - Greg Bear
- A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge
- Death du Jour - Kathy Reichs
- Dining with Peggy Guggenheim - Jane Turner Rylands
- Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee
- The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett
- Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star - Kelly R. Brown
- The Fortune Catcher - Susanne Pari
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King
- Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis
- Hannibal - Thomas Harris
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
- Hearts in Atlantis - Stephen King
- High Time to Kill - Raymond Benson
- Holes - Louis Sachar
- In America - Susan Sontag
- Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
- Irresistible Forces - Danielle Steel
- A Lake Beyond the Wind - Yahya Yakhlif
- The Mark of the Angel - Nancy Huston
- Miss Wyoming - Douglas Coupland
- One of the Guys - Robert Clark Young
- Paradise - Toni Morrison
- Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain – Jeffrey Moore
- Rulers Of Evil - F. Tupper Saussy
- Sick Puppy - Carl Hiaasen
- Single & Single - John le Carré
- Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
- Star Wars: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace - Terry Brooks
- Scattered Like Seeds - Shaw J. Dallal
- Soul Harvest - Jerry B. Jenkins & Tim LaHaye
- Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
- Suzanne Valadon: The Mistress of Montmartre - June Rose
- Syrup - Max Barry
- 'Tis - Frank McCourt
- Tara Road - Maeve Binchy
- Temple - Matthew Reilly
- The Testament - John Grisham
- The World Is Not Enough - Raymond Benson
- Through the Stones - Diana Gabaldon
- Timeline - Michael Crichton