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• Jacob Jan (Jarco) Raveling († 1998)

• Catharina Verdult (86), Den Haag, Nederland
• Anna Symkens (69), Overpelt
• Albert Willem Johannes van den HOEK (69), Den Haag
• Vos (83)
• Antje Willemdr Groot (76), Eindhoven
• Albert Snippe (64)
• Egberdina Steenman (86)
• Aaltje Aartje van Vemde (83), Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia Hessina Koelewijn (85), Katwijk aan Zee
• Dinah Susan Jamieson

• 1987 » César Cielo, Brazilian swimmer
• 1988 » Leonard Patrick Komon, Kenyan runner
• 1988 » Vladimir Zharkov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Emily Meade, American actress
• 1989 » Kyle Reimers, Australian footballer
• 1990 » Cody Walker, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Ishiura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1990 » John Carlson, American ice hockey player
• 1990 » Mirko Bortolotti, Italian racing driver
• 1991 » Chad Townsend, Australian rugby league player

• 1992 » Roberto Bonomi, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1919)
• 1995 » Kathleen Tynan, Canadian-English journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 1997 » Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1997 » Elspeth Huxley, Kenyan-English journalist and author (b. 1907)
• 1997 » Sheldon Leonard, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
• 1999 » Edward Williams, Australian lieutenant, pilot, and judge (b. 1921)
• 2000 » Sam Jaffe, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1901)
• 2004 » Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
• 2005 » Jack Horner, American journalist (b. 1912)
• 2005 » Wasyly, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop (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. Johannes
14. Dennis
15. Lars
16. Jacob

1. Laura
2. Sanne
3. Emma
4. Amber
5. Kim
6. Anne
7. Femke
8. Charlotte
9. Lotte
10. Anouk
11. Julia
12. Eva
13. Anna
14. Demi
15. Lisa
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 25 » A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
• March 4 » Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
• June 3 » After suffering a mechanical failure, a high speed train derails at Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.
• August 10 » HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
• August 20 » U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
• October 29 » The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.

The temperature on January 10, 1998 was between 4.2 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.