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Jack Kevorkian, 1999 News
71, physician, made the leap from assisted-suicide doctor to murderer when he administered a lethal injection to Lou Gehrig's disease patient Thomas Youk. Kevorkian had the 19…John William King, 1999 0 News
24, and Lawrence Russell Brewer, 32, white supremacists, were convicted and sentenced to death by Texas juries for their involvement in the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd, …Lee Teng-hui, 1999 News
76, president of Taiwan, nearly set off an international crisis in July when he announced that he considers Taiwan a state that would bargain with China only on a “state-to-st…Ricky Martin, 1999 News
27, Latino pop singer, burst onto the music scene in the U.S. after his hip-shaking performance at the February Grammy Awards. His self-titled English-language debut album hi…Joyce Maynard, 1999 News
45, writer and self-promoter, auctioned off the love letters reclusive author J. D. Salinger wrote her during their 9-month affair that began in 1972, when Maynard was a stud…Thabo Mbeki, 1999 News
57, South African politician, was elected president in June, succeeding Nelson Mandela. Mbeki eased into his new role, having already assumed many of Mandela's governing resp…Slobodan Milosevic, 1999 News
57, president of Yugoslavia, balked at repeated warnings from NATO to withdraw Yugoslav troops and weapons from Albanian-dominated Kosovo, which had been fighting for full in…Seti Mohammed, 1999 News
36, became King Mohammed IV in July, succeeding his father, King Hassan II, who ruled Morocco for 38 years until his death at age 70. Prior to ascending to the throne, King Mo…Andrew Motion, 1999 News
is named England's poet laureate in May, replacing Ted Hughes, who died in October. Motion's first official verse celebrated the marriage of Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jone…Charles Ng, 1999 News
39, former Marine, was convicted of 11 counts of first-degree murder in February by a Orange County, Calif., jury. He was charged with killing 12 people, but the jury deadlock…Trending
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