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• Cas van Vugt, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1998)

• Antonia Dolsak (93), Duisburg Hamborn, Duitsland
• Antonia Dolsak (93), Duisburg, Hamborn, Duitsland
• Agnes Louise Morgan (100), Bethany Homes, Fargo, North Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Augusta Pets (93), Dendermonde, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen
• Anna Catharina Bisselink (81), Zutphen, Nederland
• Adrianus Boots (81), Spanbroek
• Aleida Margaretha Oosterbroek (73), Leiden
• Bastiaantje Jannetje Barendrecht (74)
• Adamina Jannetje Groeneveld (85), Papendrecht
• * Marianne Catharina Pet (54), Rotterdam

• 1991 » Tatiana Kashirina, Russian weightlifter
• 1991 » Zé Luís, Cape Verdean footballer
• 1991 » Zhan Beleniuk, Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler
• 1992 » Becky Downie, English gymnast
• 1992 » Felitciano Zschusschen, Curaçao footballer
• 1992 » Phiwa Nkambule, South African entrepreneur
• 1994 » Tommie Hoban, English footballer
• 1995 » Dylan Everett, Canadian actor
• 1997 » Nirei Fukuzumi, Japanese racer
• 1999 » Vitalie Damașcan, Moldovan footballer

• 1989 » Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946)
• 1990 » Madge Bellamy, American actress (b. 1899)
• 1991 » Jack Schaefer, American journalist and author (b. 1907)
• 1992 » Ken Darby, American composer and conductor (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1993 » Thurgood Marshall, American lawyer and jurist, 32nd United States Solicitor General (b. 1908)
• 2002 » Elie Hobeika, Lebanese commander and politician (b. 1956)
• 2003 » Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (b. 1921)
• 2004 » Leônidas, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1913)
• 2006 » Schafik Handal, Salvadoran politician (b. 1930)

• 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.
• 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.
• June 4 » Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
• July 24 » Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
• October 7 » Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. He died five days later.
• October 29 » While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of six and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.

The temperature on January 24, 1998 was between 0.8 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.