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• Annechien Renken (85), Borne
• Alle Corneliszn. de Jong (90), Arum, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aleida Klazina Siertsema (81), Geldrop
• Christianus van Oirschot (55), Valkenswaard
• Cornelis De Graaf (78), Edam
• Christianus van Oorschot (55)
• Angeline van der Schaaf (86), Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa
• Albert Hakvoort (79)
• Aart Hendrik Marie Mulder (70), Aalten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cor Brommer (85), Hypolitushoef, Noord Holland, Nederland

• 1990 » Reggie Jackson, American basketball player
• 1990 » Tony McQuay, American sprinter
• 1990 » Vangelis Mantzaris, Greek basketball player
• 1991 » Kim Kyung-jung, South Korean footballer
• 1991 » Nolan Arenado, American baseball player
• 1993 » Chance the Rapper, American rapper
• 1993 » Mirai Nagasu, American figure skater
• 1994 » Albert Almora, American baseball player
• 1994 » Will Fuller, American football player
• 2002 » Sadie Sink, American actress

• 1996 » Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer (b. 1917)
• 1996 » Stavros Niarchos, Greek-Swiss businessman (b. 1909)
• 1997 » Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid, Colombian politician (b. 1921)
• 1997 » Roland Topor, French actor, director, and painter (b. 1938)
• 1998 » Alberto Calderón, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
• 1998 » Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian super-centenarian (b. 1880)
• 1999 » Skip Spence, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
• 2001 » Michael Ritchie, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• 2001 » Robert Osterloh, American actor (b. 1918)

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. 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. Lisa
14. Anna
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.
• March 2 » Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
• May 23 » The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes.
• May 27 » Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
• October 29 » The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.
• November 26 » Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
• December 4 » The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.

The temperature on April 16, 1998 was between 1.7 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.