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• Martin Ignacio Vera Galindo, Porto Montt (Llanquihue), Los Lagos, Chili

• Arnoldus Hermanus Diepman (60)
• Arie Romeijn (85), giessenburg (zuid holland)
• Alice Melanie Lockefeer (82), Terneuzen
• Bernard Lacombe (68), Repentigny, L'Assomption, Quebec, Canada
• Dieuwke (Dien) Rommets (85), Bilthoven de Bilt Utrecht Nederland
• Adriaan den Boer (72), Rotterdam
• Christina SCHOLTEN (98), Rochester, Monroe, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Massimiliano
• Constantia Justine Herremans (65), Lommel
• Catharina van der Kooij (89), Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

• 1986 » Ricardo Vaz Tê, Portuguese footballer
• 1987 » Hiroki Aiba, Japanese actor and singer
• 1987 » Mitchell Aubusson, Australian rugby league player
• 1989 » Brie Larson, American actress
• 1990 » Albert Prosa, Estonian footballer
• 1990 » Pedro Filipe Mendes, Portuguese footballer
• 1991 » Conor Clifford, Irish footballer
• 1991 » Rain Veideman, Estonian basketball player
• 1992 » Xander Bogaerts, Aruban baseball player
• 1995 » Lauren Hill, American basketball player († 2015)

• 1990 » Curtis LeMay, American general (b. 1906)
• 1992 » Petra Kelly, German activist and politician (b. 1947)
• 1994 » Paul Lorenzen, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1915)
• 1997 » Jerome H. Lemelson, American engineer and philanthropist (b. 1923)
• 2002 » Walter Annenberg, American publisher and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1908)
• 2004 » Bruce Palmer, Canadian bass player (b. 1946)
• 2004 » Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)
• 2004 » Robert Vaidlo, Estonian journalist and author (b. 1921)
• 2006 » Fawaz al-Rabeiee, Saudi Arabian terrorist (b. 1979)
• 2006 » Jerald Tanner, American author and activist (b. 1938)

• 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.
• February 14 » An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which killed 120.
• May 7 » Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
• July 12 » The Ulster Volunteer Force attacked a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers.
• August 28 » Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
• December 4 » The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.

The temperature on October 1, 1998 was between 9.1 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.