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• Nino van den Oever, Roosendaal en Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Alma Merchant (84), East St. Louis, Clair County, Illinois (USA)
• Anna Maria Antonia Smeur (85), Raamsdonk, Provincie Noord Brabant Nederland
• Christiaan Jacob Schoonmade (81), Dordrecht
• Daniel Pierre Jules CASTELEIN (64), Westrem
• Elisabeth Adriana Maria van Wanrooij (68), Tilburg
• Cornelis Adrianus Bruijnes (65), Koudekerk aan de Rijn
• Bertha Diederen (83), Nuth,, Limburg, Nederland
• Christiaan (Chris) ten Dam (78), Velp (gem.Rheden)
• Alphonsus Peeters (92), Herentals, België
• Cornelis de Wit (90), Bergen op Zoom

• 1989 » Diego Barisone, Argentinian footballer († 2015)
• 1989 » Ezekiel Ansah, Ghanaian-American football player
• 1989 » Riley Keough, American model and actress
• 1990 » Joe Biagini, American baseball pitcher
• 1992 » Sarah Moundir, Swiss tennis player
• 1993 » Grete Šadeiko, Estonian heptathlete
• 1993 » Jana Čepelová, Slovak tennis player
• 1993 » Maika Monroe, American actress and kiteboarder
• 1998 » Markelle Fultz, American basketball player
• 1999 » Park Ji-hoon, South Korean singer and actor

• 1991 » Margaret Barr (choreographer), Australian choreographer and teacher of dance-drama (b. 1904)
• 1993 » Billy Conn, American boxer (b. 1917)
• 1994 » Erich Honecker, German lawyer and politician (b. 1912)
• 1994 » Lady May Abel Smith, member of the British Royal Family (b. 1906)
• 1996 » Tamara Toumanova, American ballerina and actress (b. 1919)
• 1997 » Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1966)
• 1998 » Barry Goldwater, American general, activist, and politician (b. 1909)
• 2003 » David Jefferies, English motorcycle racer (b. 1972)
• 2004 » Archibald Cox, American lawyer and politician, 31st United States Solicitor General (b. 1912)
• 2004 » Samuel Dash, American academic and politician (b. 1925)

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.
• January 13 » Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against homophobia.
• August 30 » Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
• October 29 » The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.
• November 19 » Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
• November 26 » The Khanna rail disaster takes 212 lives in Khanna, Ludhiana, India.
• December 4 » The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.

The temperature on May 29, 1998 was between 12.7 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 14.7 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.