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• Alida Maria Dubbelaar (84)
• Aaltje Veerman (86), Huizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Blanche Edna Smith (87)
• Auke de Vries (63), Boarnsterhiem
• Clifford William Rogers (86), Slayton, Murray Co., MN
• Christina Margretha Mijnhout (74), Heemskerk
• Bas Slappendel (87), Hazerswoude
• Antje Jongeleen (91), Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Poppelaars (82)
• Ria Oerlemans (56), Steenbergen

• 1990 » Grant Gustin, American actor and singer
• 1990 » Lelisa Desisa, Ethiopian runner
• 1992 » Chieh-Yu Hsu, American tennis player
• 1992 » Robbie Brady, Irish footballer
• 1993 » Daniel Bessa, Brazilian footballer
• 1994 » Abi Phillips, English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1994 » Kai, South Korean singer, model, actor and dancer
• 1994 » Kane Elgey, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Alex Johnston, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Georgios Diamantakos, Greek basketball player

• 1991 » Gordon Bryant, Australian educator and politician (b. 1914)
• 1995 » Alexander Gibson, Scottish conductor (b. 1926)
• 1996 » Onno Tunç, Armenian-Turkish composer (b. 1948)
• 1997 » Dollard Ménard, Canadian general (b. 1913)
• 2000 » Leonard Weisgard, American author and illustrator (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Ron O'Neal, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 2004 » Uta Hagen, German-American actress (b. 1919)
• 2005 » Charlotte MacLeod, Canadian-American author (b. 1922)
• 2005 » Conroy Maddox, English painter and educator (b. 1912)
• 2005 » Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b. 1940)

• 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 4 » The 5.9 M_w  Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme.
• March 31 » Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.
• April 5 » In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world.
• October 16 » Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
• November 9 » A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.
• 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.

The temperature on January 14, 1998 was between 4.8 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.