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• Henrietta HARTGERINK, USA
• Grace Sneller, Sioux Center, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1998)
• Grace Sneller († 1998)

• Carlos Henrique Pancada de Mello (67), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
• Antonius Steltenpool (79), Obdam, Koggenland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Asher Hoek (87), Lochem (GL)
• Annie Senden (80), Nijswiller-Wittem
• Alfred Albert Townsend (82), Hartford City, Blackford, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Steltenpool (79), Obdam
• "Hélène" Louise Marie de La Panouse (81), Paris
• Anna Helena Peters (76), Lelystad, Flevoland, Nederland
• Cornelis Wilhelmus Heesen (83), Utrecht
• Alewijna Stamkot (87)

• 1986 » George Elokobi, Cameroonian footballer
• 1986 » Megan Ellison, American film producer, founded Annapurna Pictures
• 1986 » Walter Dix, American sprinter
• 1987 » Marcus Mumford, American-English singer-songwriter
• 1988 » Brett Pitman, English footballer
• 1988 » Taijo Teniste, Estonian footballer
• 1990 » Jacob Markström, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1990 » Jacopo Fortunato, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Kota Yabu, Japanese idol, singer-songwriter, model, actor
• 1994 » Kenneth Zohore, Danish footballer

• 1990 » Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German zoologist and academic (b. 1901)
• 1995 » George Abbott, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1887)
• 1997 » John Joseph Scanlan, Irish-American bishop (b. 1930)
• 1999 » Giant Baba, Japanese wrestler and trainer, co-founded All Japan Pro Wrestling (b. 1938)
• 1999 » Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2000 » Gil Kane, Latvian-American author and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2001 » Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian-American author (b. 1923)
• 2002 » Gabby Gabreski, American colonel and pilot (b. 1919)
• 2004 » Eleanor Holm, American swimmer and actress (b. 1913)
• 2004 » Suraiya, Indian actress and playback singer (b. 1929)

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.
• March 27 » The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
• March 31 » Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.
• May 21 » President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule.
• June 5 » A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks.
• August 10 » HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
• August 26 » The first flight of the Air Force Delta III ends in disaster 75 seconds after liftoff resulting in the loss of the Galaxy X satellite.

The temperature on January 31, 1998 was between -4.8 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.