About the day » Friday January 30, 1998Calender converter

• Daniel Otten, Groningen, Netherlands († 1998)
• Daniel Otten-, Groningen, Nederland († 1998)
• Dennis Bom, landsmeer
• Indiño Luís (Indy) STERK, Utrecht

• Adriaan Meijs (85), 's-Gravenhage, ZH, Nederland
• Agnes F Lloyd (82), Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Daniel Otten- (0), Groningen, Nederland
• Bernardus van den Nouland (78), Voorhout
• Aagje Lubbertsdr Romkes (89), Urk
• Aaltje Beettjer (85), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albert Mijnheer (73), Zuidhorn
• Cora Lorraine FISCUS (83), Kimberly, Twin Falls, Idaho, Verenigde Staten
• Daniël Renés Otten
• Adrianus Cornelis Hermanus Geboers (83), Tilburg,Noord Brabant,Nederland

• 1990 » Andrew McCullough, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Joe Colborne, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Luca Sbisa, Swiss ice hockey player
• 1990 » Mitchell Starc, Australian cricketer
• 1990 » Nils Miatke, German footballer
• 1990 » Yoon Bo-ra, South Korean singer
• 1991 » Stefan Elliott, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1993 » Katy Marchant, English track cyclist
• 1995 » Jack Laugher, English diver
• 1995 » Víctor Sánchez, Venezuelan baseball player († 2015)

• 1991 » Clifton C. Edom, American photographer and educator (b. 1907)
• 1991 » John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1994 » Pierre Boulle, French soldier and author (b. 1912)
• 1999 » Ed Herlihy, American journalist (b. 1909)
• 1999 » Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2001 » Jean-Pierre Aumont, French soldier and actor (b. 1911)
• 2001 » Johnnie Johnson, English air marshal and pilot (b. 1915)
• 2001 » Joseph Ransohoff, American surgeon and educator (b. 1915)
• 2005 » Martyn Bennett, Canadian-Scottish violinist (b. 1971)
• 2006 » Coretta Scott King, American author and activist (b. 1927)

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. Jacob

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. Anna
14. Lisa
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.
• February 1 » Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
• July 4 » Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
• September 2 » Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; all 229 people onboard are killed.
• September 14 » Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
• October 16 » Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
• December 4 » The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.

The temperature on January 30, 1998 was between 1.6 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.