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• Marije Willemijn Bos, Beerta

• Andries van Dalen (76), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Poppe van Dijken (86), Zuidhorn
• Dirk Jan Verbeek (83), Buurmalsen
• Antonius Peter Johannes (Toon) Heesen (81), Venlo, Lim, Nederland
• Benjamin Foster Perry (34), Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico
• Albertje Harms Regeling (82)
• Adriaan Immanuel van Domburg Scipio (83), 's Gravenhage
• Anna Karolina Johanna Kohlhauser (92)
• Bernard Hendrik Tibben (56), London, Ontario, Canada
• Clifford Charles Henry Thorne (85)

• 1988 » Kaci Brown, American singer-songwriter
• 1989 » Karl-August Tiirmaa, Estonian skier
• 1989 » Landon Cassill, American race car driver
• 1989 » Miina Kallas, Estonian footballer
• 1990 » Lee Addy, Ghanaian footballer
• 1990 » Pascal Stöger, Austrian footballer
• 1991 » Alesso, Swedish DJ, record producer and musician
• 1992 » Dominik Furman, Polish footballer
• 1992 » Ellina Anissimova, Estonian hammer thrower
• 1994 » Timothy Cathcart, Northern Irish race car driver († 2014)

• 1993 » Rıfat Ilgaz, Turkish author, poet, and educator (b. 1911)
• 1994 » Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1994 » Carlo Chiti, Italian engineer (b. 1924)
• 1994 » Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German general (b. 1907)
• 1998 » Moshood Abiola, Nigerian businessman and politician (b. 1937)
• 1999 » Julie Campbell Tatham, American author (b. 1908)
• 1999 » Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra, Indian Army personnel (b. 1974)
• 2000 » Kenny Irwin Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
• 2001 » Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
• 2003 » Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian trumpet player and conductor (b. 1924)

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.
• June 4 » Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
• June 5 » A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks.
• July 12 » The Ulster Volunteer Force attacked a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers.
• 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.
• October 16 » Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
• October 29 » In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.

The temperature on July 7, 1998 was between 10.2 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.