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• Lennart Frederik Schalm
• Danitsa ten Brug

• Agatha Bleeker (78), Dekkerswald
• Adriana Patricia Macmillan (1), Norfolk, VA., Verenigde Staten
• Albert van Rein (63), Gasteren, Anloo, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albert Visscher (66), Ermelo
• Anna Plug (92), Noordwijk, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Arie WOLS (53), Ridderkerk
• Annigje de Vries (78)
• Adrianus Petrus Matthijssen (79), Rutten
• Adriaantje Kruithof (90)
• Antje (Anne) Koster (77), Maassluis

• 1990 » Daniel Ayala, Spanish footballer
• 1990 » David de Gea, Spanish footballer
• 1990 » Joelle Hadjia, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1990 » Matt Corby, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1991 » Felix Rosenqvist, Swedish race car driver
• 1992 » Apisai Koroisau, Australian-Fijian rugby league player
• 1994 » Haruna Iikubo, Japanese singer and actress
• 1996 » Lorde, New Zealand singer-songwriter
• 1997 » Erika Hendsel, Estonian tennis player
• 1997 » Nana Okada, Japanese singer

• 1994 » Shorty Rogers, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1924)
• 1995 » Ann Dunham, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1942)
• 1996 » Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist and academic (b. 1939)
• 1996 » Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian lawyer and politician, Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1918)
• 2000 » Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian publisher and politician, Indian Minister of Defence (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Ingrid of Sweden (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Nimalan Soundaranayagam, Sri Lankan educator and politician (b. 1950)
• 2001 » Anthony Shaffer, English author and playwright (b. 1926)
• 2001 » Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
• 2002 » Rudolf Augstein, German journalist, co-founded Der Spiegel (b. 1923)

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. 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.
• May 2 » The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
• May 6 » Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his fifth career start.
• July 4 » Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
• August 30 » Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
• September 2 » The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
• December 11 » Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-200 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation.

The temperature on November 7, 1998 was between -0.1 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.