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• Kimberly Kosten, Goes († 2007)

• Edwin Carl "Bud" Berggren (70), Fairmont Comm. Hosp., Fairmont, Martin Co., MN
• Els Kruchten (48)
• Edward Joseph Roos (94), Preston Good Samaritan Center, Preston, Filmore County, Minnesota
• Afra Margaretha Schuijt (75), Akersloot
• Arnoldus Antonius de Vries (87), Velp gem. Rheden (GL) NED
• Arnolda Adriana van de Wiel (80), 's Hertogenbosch, Gemeente 's Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• August Dillen (84), Retie (België)
• Cornelis Johannes Maria van den Nouweland (50)
• Arline Margaret Jungbecker (69)
• Berdina Couperus (68), Kubaard (gemeente Hennaarderadeel)

• 1988 » Heida Reed, Icelandic-British actress
• 1989 » Corey Dickerson, American baseball player
• 1990 » Wyatt Roy, Australian politician
• 1991 » Joel Obi, Nigerian footballer
• 1991 » Suho, South Korean singer and actor
• 1992 » Anna Baryshnikov, American actress
• 1994 » Florian Luger, Austrian male model
• 1998 » Samile Bermannelli, Brazilian fashion model
• 1999 » Camren Bicondova, American actress
• 1999 » Femke Huijzer, Dutch model

• 1991 » Shripad Amrit Dange, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1899)
• 1992 » Zellig Harris, American linguist and academic (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1892)
• 1997 » Alfred Hershey, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect and painter (b. 1906)
• 1998 » John Derek, American actor, director, and photographer (b. 1926)
• 1998 » José Enrique Moyal, Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Davie Fulton, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
• 2004 » Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960)

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. Jacob

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. Iris
16. Anna

• 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.
• January 1 » Following a currency reform, Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
• February 1 » Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
• February 14 » An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which killed 120.
• February 28 » First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
• December 4 » The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.
• December 19 » President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached.

The temperature on May 22, 1998 was between 6.1 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.