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• Joris Huub Gerardus Kappert († 2021)
• Terry van Petersen, Zaandam († 1999)
• Dani Rog, Hilversum, NL

• Everett Lee Hart (91)
• Barend Pieter Langerijs (81)
• Evert Hartman (76)
• Alida Plooijer (70)
• Crystal Olive Pasley (79)
• Flora L Ochsner (98), USA
• Ferdinand de Stolberg-Stolberg (71)
• Christianus Johannes Philipsen (61), Zelezna Ruda
• Cornelis Johannes (Cees) de Waal (77), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Elizabeth Law Blackburn (96)

• 1991 » Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer († 2016)
• 1991 » Mike Trout, American baseball player
• 1991 » Mitchell te Vrede, Dutch footballer
• 1992 » Adam Yates, English cyclist
• 1992 » E. J. Tackett, American bowler
• 1992 » Simon Yates, English cyclist
• 1993 » Karol Zalewski, Polish sprinter
• 1993 » Martti Nõmme, Estonian ski jumper
• 1998 » María Bazo, Peruvian windsurfer
• 1998 » Vladimir Barbu, Italian diver

• 1989 » Mickey Leland, American lawyer and politician (b. 1944)
• 1994 » Larry Martyn, English actor (b. 1934)
• 1995 » Brigid Brophy, English author and critic (b. 1929)
• 2001 » Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1932)
• 2003 » K. D. Arulpragasam, Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (b. 1931)
• 2003 » Mickey McDermott, American baseball player and coach (b. 1929)
• 2004 » Colin Bibby, English ornithologist and academic (b. 1948)
• 2004 » Red Adair, American firefighter (b. 1915)
• 2005 » Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist and author (b. 1938)
• 2006 » Mary Anderson Bain, American lawyer and politician (b. 1911)

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. Femke
7. Anne
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.
• February 14 » An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which killed 120.
• March 1 » Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
• May 23 » The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes.
• November 20 » A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
• December 14 » Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.
• December 29 » Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million lives.

The temperature on August 7, 1998 was between 13.0 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.