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• Cornelis van den Heuvel (70)
• Carl B May (94), Houston, Harris, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Bellatrix Black (47)
• Barta Volkers
• Flonnie Lee Sneed Combest [sWks] (86), Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
• Aaltje Cats (85), Oostellingwerf
• Cornelia Joanna Adriana van Oers (86), Tilburg
• Evertje Driezen (102)
• Evertje Jans Driezen (102)
• Dick Heuseveldt (71), Grass Valley, Nevada County, California

• 1990 » Kay Panabaker, American actress
• 1991 » Jeong Jinwoon, South Korean actor and singer
• 1992 » María Teresa Torró Flor, Spanish tennis player
• 1992 » Sunmi, South Korean singer
• 1993 » Huang Zitao, Chinese singer and rapper
• 1993 » Isyana Sarasvati, Indonesian singer
• 1993 » Owain Doull, Welsh track cyclist
• 1996 » Cherprang Areekul, Thai singer
• 1996 » Julian Brandt, German footballer
• 1996 » Schuyler Bailar, American swimmer

• 1995 » John Bunting, Australian public servant and diplomat, (b. 1918)
• 1995 » Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)
• 1997 » John Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1997 » Paulo Freire, Brazilian philosopher and academic (b. 1921)
• 1998 » Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1998 » hide, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1964)
• 1998 » Justin Fashanu, English footballer (b. 1961)
• 1999 » Douglas Harkness, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1903)
• 1999 » Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
• 2000 » Sundar Popo, Indo-Trinidadian musician (b. 1943)

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.
• March 24 » Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
• April 5 » In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world.
• May 7 » Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
• June 25 » In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.
• August 7 » Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
• November 26 » Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.

The temperature on May 2, 1998 was between 7.4 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.