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• Arendina Helena van Putten (61)
• Arthur Uittenbogaard (86)
• Berta Karolina Persdotter (95), Spånga, Stockholm (AB)
• Cornelis Kreukniet (72), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Polycarpa Maria den Hollander (80), Voorschoten
• Cato Josepha Hermana Brits (88), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelis van Velzen (77), Heiloo
• Bennie Boschker (81)
• Camillus VRANKEN (89), Tienen Vlaams Brabant
• Cornelis (kees) van Velzen (77), Heiloo

• 1989 » Morgan Burnett, American football player
• 1990 » Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor
• 1990 » Vincenzo Fiorillo, Italian footballer
• 1991 » Rob Kiernan, English-Irish footballer
• 1992 » Adam Matthews, Welsh footballer
• 1992 » Dinah Pfizenmaier, German tennis player
• 1993 » Max Whitlock, English artistic gymnast
• 1997 » Connor McDavid, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1997 » Ivan Provorov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1997 » Micah Hart, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1993 » Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer and conductor (b. 1907)
• 1995 » Max Harris, Australian journalist, poet, and author (b. 1921)
• 2002 » Frank Shuster, Canadian actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 2003 » Norman Panama, American director and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 2004 » Arne Næss, Jr., Norwegian businessman and mountaineer (b. 1937)
• 2005 » Earl Cameron, Canadian journalist (b. 1915)
• 2005 » Nell Rankin, American soprano and actress (b. 1924)
• 2006 » Frank Fixaris, American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1934)
• 2006 » Marc Potvin, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1967)
• 2007 » Michael Brecker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1949)

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. 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 23 » Netscape announced Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source.
• February 23 » In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42 people.
• March 2 » Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
• April 5 » In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world.
• May 30 » Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent.
• July 10 » Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.

The temperature on January 13, 1998 was between 3.9 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.