About the day » Sunday January 4, 1998Calender converter

• Crystal Sue King, Hull, Sioux County, Iowa († 2000)
• Kimerly Werleman, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, NL († 1998)
• John M. Moffat, McKeesport, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten

• Aleida Cornelia SCHULTE (75), Bilthoven (De Bilt), Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelis Castelijns (80), Bladel (Huize Kempenland)
• Aleida Cornelia SCHULTE (75), Bilthoven, gemeente De Bilt
• Adrian Buyser (82), Harris, Texas
• Adriana, Cornelisd Heere (91), EaZ
• Dirk van der Plas (84), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Caleb C. Patterson [sWksObptFwkmctBrdlyPlBBu]Wk3 (82), Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
• ALBERTJE HECKMAN (71)
• Catharina (Nettie) PIETERS (78), Heugem/Maastricht (NL/LI)
• Antje van der Velde (81), -

• 1985 » Gökhan Gönül, Turkish footballer
• 1985 » Kari Aalvik Grimsbø, Norwegian handball player
• 1986 » James Milner, English footballer
• 1986 » Younès Kaboul, French footballer
• 1989 » Graham Rahal, American race car driver
• 1990 » Toni Kroos, German footballer
• 1992 » Kris Bryant, American baseball player
• 1994 » Derrick Henry, American football player
• 1997 » Ante Žižić, Croatian basketball player
• 1998 » Liza Soberano, Filipina actress

• 1994 » R. D. Burman, Indian film composer and music director (b. 1939)
• 1995 » Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor and composer (b. 1942)
• 1995 » Sol Tax, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1997 » Harry Helmsley, American businessman (b. 1909)
• 1998 » Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
• 1999 » Iron Eyes Cody, American actor and stuntman (b. 1904)
• 2000 » Spyros Markezinis, Greek lawyer and politician, 170th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1909)
• 2000 » Tom Fears, Mexican-American football player and coach (b. 1922)
• 2001 » Les Brown, American bandleader and composer (b. 1912)
• 2004 » Brian Gibson, English director and screenwriter (b. 1944)

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

1. Laura
2. Sanne
3. Emma
4. Amber
5. Kim
6. Anne
7. Femke
8. Charlotte
9. Anouk
10. Lotte
11. Julia
12. Eva
13. Lisa
14. Anna
15. Demi
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.
• April 6 » Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $76billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.
• May 2 » The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
• May 13 » India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
• October 12 » Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.
• November 26 » The Khanna rail disaster takes 212 lives in Khanna, Ludhiana, India.
• December 29 » Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million lives.

The temperature on January 4, 1998 was between 4.8 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.