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• Barteld Mooibroek (70)
• Adriana Maria Johanna van Leijsen (87), Oosterhout
• Bareld Mooibroek (70), Daarlerveen, Hellendoorn
• Alberdina Maria(Dien) Gerrits (88), Ottersum, Nederland
• Antonius C. (Ton) van Walbeek (86), Heiloo
• Clayton David Phillips (85), Reno Washoe County Nevada, Verenigde Staten
• Baudouin Eugène Verhaegen (77), Bruxelles
• Adriana Wilhelmina Dofferhoff (83), Raalte
• Anton Cornelis van Walbeek (86)
• Catharina Opdam (75), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1986 » Johnny Cueto, Dominican baseball player
• 1986 » Valeri Bojinov, Bulgarian footballer
• 1987 » Jarrod Sammut, Australian rugby league player
• 1988 » Hironori Kusano, Japanese singer and actor
• 1988 » Jarryd Hayne, Australian rugby league player and football player
• 1988 » Rui Patrício, Portuguese footballer
• 1988 » Tim Mannah, Australian-born Lebanese rugby league player
• 1990 » Charles Pic, French race car driver
• 1991 » Ángel Sepúlveda, Mexican footballer
• 1993 » Ravi, South Korean rapper

• 1992 » María Elena Moyano, Peruvian activist (b. 1960)
• 1992 » William Schuman, American composer and academic (b. 1910)
• 1996 » McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1998 » Martha Gellhorn, American journalist and author (b. 1908)
• 1999 » Big L, American rapper (b. 1974)
• 1999 » Henry Way Kendall, American physicist and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
• 2000 » Angus MacLean, Canadian commander and politician, 25th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1914)
• 2002 » Howard K. Smith, American journalist and actor (b. 1914)
• 2002 » Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
• 2004 » Jens Evensen, Norwegian lawyer, judge, and politician, Norwegian Minister of Trade (b. 1917)

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. Jacob

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. Anna
14. Lisa
15. Demi
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.
• February 28 » Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
• 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 10 » The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland.
• 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.
• October 29 » The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.
• December 6 » in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez is victorious in presidential elections.

The temperature on February 15, 1998 was between 6.6 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.