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• Adrianus Hendrikus Belder (74)
• Carlos Gerd Schroeder (64)
• Dionysius Cornelius Petrus van de Pavoordt (79), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annemie Welters (42), Maastricht
• Dirk van den Akker (83), Barneveld
• Anna Wilhelmina Elisabeth Vermeer (75), Middelburg (Zeeland)
• Anne Sevareid (84), Glasgow, Valley County, Montana, United States of America
• Dirk de Kuijper (93)
• Anthonius van Hilten (92), Utrecht
• Bertus Luckassen (60)

• 1986 » Hajime Isayama, Japanese illustrator
• 1986 » Lea Michele, American actress and singer
• 1987 » Tony Kane, Irish footballer
• 1990 » Jakub Kosecki, Polish footballer
• 1990 » Patrick van Aanholt, Dutch footballer
• 1991 » Deshaun Thomas, American basketball player
• 1991 » Néstor Araujo, Mexican footballer
• 1992 » Mallu Magalhães, Brazilian singer-songwriter
• 1992 » Noah Syndergaard, American baseball player
• 1993 » Liam Payne, English singer-songwriter

• 1992 » Félix Guattari, French philosopher and theorist (b. 1930)
• 1995 » Frank Perry, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 2000 » Conrad Marca-Relli, American-Italian painter and academic (b. 1913)
• 2000 » Shelagh Fraser, English actress (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Willie Maddren, English footballer and manager (b. 1951)
• 2001 » Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2001 » Graeme Strachan, Australian singer-songwriter & television personality (b. 1952)
• 2002 » Lance Macklin, English race car driver (b. 1919)
• 2003 » Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim, Iraqi politician (b. 1939)
• 2003 » Patrick Procktor, English painter and academic (b. 1936)

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.
• March 24 » First computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany
• April 6 » Nuclear weapons testing: Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
• April 20 » Air France Flight 422 crashes after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing all 53 people on board.
• 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.
• October 10 » A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
• 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 August 29, 1998 was between 9.3 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.