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• Cornelia Henrica Francisca Petronella Kollau (77), Tilburg
• Catherine ''Kate'' Ryan (91), Montgomery County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Petrus Maria Sleutjes (46), Sprang-Capelle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alan Cyril Heber-Percy (62)
• Cornelia van Arkel (96), Geldermalsen
• Anna Broekman (77), Nijmegen,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Kaashoek (92), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland (Nederland)
• Della Mae Geese (88), fortasse, somewhere In OH
• Augustinus Johannes (Guus) van der Voort van der Kleij (80), ,, den Haag, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Elisa Wevers (74), Maaseik-Neeroeteren, Provincie Limburg, België

• 1989 » Michaëlla Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
• 1989 » Michael Beasley, American basketball player
• 1989 » Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-Canadian actress
• 1989 » Yana Maksimava, Belarusian heptathlete
• 1990 » Justin Blackmon, American football player
• 1991 » Álvaro Soler, Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1991 » Edon Hasani, Albanian football player
• 1992 » Joseph Parker, Samoan heavyweight boxer
• 1993 » Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English long jumper and heptathlete
• 1999 » Shannon Tavarez, American actress († 2010)

• 1995 » Peter Cook, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 1995 » Souphanouvong, Laotian politician, 1st President of Laos (b. 1909)
• 1996 » Abdullah al-Qasemi, Saudi atheist, writer, and intellectual (b. 1907)
• 1996 » Walter M. Miller, Jr., American soldier and author (b. 1923)
• 1997 » Edward Osóbka-Morawski, Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
• 1997 » Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1998 » Imi Lichtenfeld, Slovakian-Israeli martial artist, founded Krav Maga (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2000 » Arnold Alexander Hall, English engineer and academic (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)

1. Nick
2. Niels
3. Thomas
4. Daan
5. Robin
6. Tim
7. Jan
8. Max
9. Bas
10. Bram
11. Kevin
12. Rick
13. Dennis
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.
• January 17 » Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his Drudge Report website.
• May 21 » President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule.
• May 30 » The 6.5 M_w  Afghanistan earthquake shook the Takhar Province of northern Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing around 4,000–4,500.
• 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.
• September 14 » Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
• October 29 » Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.

The temperature on January 9, 1998 was between 6.9 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.