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• Charlotte Sophie de Beurs, Alkmaar
• Catharina de Nijs, Castricum
• Nadine Nellie Courbois, Oosterhout, Ned
• Koen den Otter, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1998)
• Sabrina Campbell († 1998)

• Adrianus Jansz van der Meij (77), Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cora Bell Corbin (84), Guymon, Texas, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• catharina dimphna de Hoon (78), Bergen op zoom
• Antonius Franciscus Petrus Pullens (69)
• Anna Elisabeth Hemsteede (75), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus Henricus Martinus Robben (64), Mol (B)
• Cornelis Gerardus Oostveen (77), Vleuten (UT, NLD)
• Cornelis Aalbers (81), Wageningen
• Bertha Wobben (80), Ottawa Co. Mich., Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Aalbers (81), Wageningen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1988 » Asher Allen, American football player
• 1988 » Greg Oden, American basketball player
• 1989 » Theo Robinson, English-Jamaican footballer
• 1990 » Alizé Cornet, French tennis player
• 1990 » Dean Whare, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 » Logic, American rapper
• 1990 » Phil Wang, British-Malaysian comedian
• 1991 » Stefan Kolb, German footballer
• 1996 » Joshua Ho-Sang, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1998 » Silento, American rapper, singer and songwriter

• 1993 » Kōbō Abe, Japanese playwright and photographer (b. 1924)
• 1994 » Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
• 1994 » Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1996 » Israel Eldad, Polish-Israeli philosopher and author (b. 1910)
• 1997 » Billy Mackenzie, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
• 1999 » Graham Staines, Australian-Indian missionary and translator (b. 1941)
• 2000 » Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet (b. 1916)
• 2000 » Craig Claiborne, American journalist, author, and critic (b. 1920)
• 2001 » Roy Brown, American clown and puppeteer (b. 1932)
• 2001 » Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)

1. Nick
2. Niels
3. Thomas
4. Daan
5. Robin
6. Tim
7. Jan
8. Max
9. Bas
10. Bram
11. Kevin
12. Dennis
13. Rick
14. Johannes
15. Lars
16. Pieter

1. Laura
2. Sanne
3. Emma
4. Amber
5. Kim
6. Femke
7. Anne
8. Charlotte
9. Anouk
10. Lotte
11. Julia
12. Eva
13. Demi
14. Lisa
15. Anna
16. Iris

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
• January 11 » Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
• March 31 » Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.
• August 7 » Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
• August 10 » HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
• October 7 » Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. He died five days later.
• December 19 » President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached.

The temperature on January 22, 1998 was between -5.7 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged -2.1 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.