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• Giovanni Faas
• Sepp Barberien

• Carola Maria Antonia van Campfort (91), Dessel (België)
• Annie Maria Magdalena Gibbels (83)
• Barbera de Bruijn (93)
• Antje van der Leede (86), Gouda
• Concepcion Ojeda (97), Universal City, Bexar, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Snelders (101), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Marijs (82), Epe,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelis MOOIJER (63), Volendam, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Constantinus Petrus Loos (71), Essen (België)
• Christina Vlugt (87)

• 1979 » Steve Montador, Canadian ice hockey player († 2015)
• 1981 » Cristian Zaccardo, Italian footballer
• 1982 » Philip Humber, American baseball player
• 1983 » Steven Yeun, American actor
• 1985 » Tom Sturridge, English actor
• 1988 » Perri Shakes-Drayton, English sprinter and hurdler
• 1989 » Mark Ingram Jr., American football player
• 1989 » Tamannaah, South Indian actress
• 1991 » Riccardo Saponara, Italian footballer
• 1995 » Ronnie Bassett Jr., American race car driver

• 1988 » Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1992 » Albert King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1924)
• 1992 » Nathan Milstein, Russian-American violinist and composer (b. 1903)
• 1992 » Stella Adler, American actress and educator (b. 1901)
• 1998 » Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician (b. 1904)
• 2004 » Autar Singh Paintal, Indian physiologist and neurologist (b. 1925)
• 2006 » Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmen engineer and politician, 1st President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940)
• 2009 » Christos Lambrakis, Greek journalist and businessman (b. 1934)
• 2009 » Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2010 » Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1927)

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. 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.
• July 10 » Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
• July 17 » The 7.0 M_w  Papua New Guinea earthquake triggers a tsunami that destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured.
• August 20 » U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
• November 9 » A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.
• December 14 » Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.
• December 31 » The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.

The temperature on December 21, 1998 was between -1.4 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.