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• Brandon FROHLING, Benoni

• Bartus Fiks (71)
• Christina Busser (89), Nijmegen
• Bouwe van der Veen (63), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Dorothy Chilcote (80)
• Cornelia Hoorendijk (85), Haarlem
• Cornelie Madeleine Crena de iongh (78), 's-Gravenhage
• Alida Allegonda van Zomeren (90)
• Cornelis Johannes Duivenvoorde (83), Vlissingen, ZEE, Nederland
• Adriaan van Lingen (78), Hoorn
• Christina Johanna Busser (89), Rosmalen, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord Brabant, Nederland

• 1989 » Mark Barron, American football player
• 1990 » Dimitrios Gkourtsas, Greek footballer
• 1990 » Oktovianus Maniani, Indonesian footballer
• 1991 » Shohei Takahashi, Japanese footballer
• 1992 » Brandon Saad, American ice hockey player
• 1992 » Emily Hagins, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1992 » Stephan El Shaarawy, Italian footballer
• 1993 » Kiefer Ravena, Filipino basketball player
• 1997 » Lonzo Ball, American basketball player
• 1999 » Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer and actress

• 1996 » Arthur Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
• 1997 » Mahala Andrews, British vertebrae palaeontologist (b. 1939)
• 1999 » Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
• 1999 » Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (b. 1927)
• 2000 » Walter Berry (bass-baritone), Austrian lyric bass-baritone (b. 1929)
• 2001 » Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1925)
• 2002 » Tom Dowd, American record producer and engineer (b. 1925)
• 2002 » Valve Pormeister, Estonian architect (b. 1922)
• 2003 » Rod Roddy, American game show announcer (b. 1937)
• 2003 » Stephanie Tyrell, American songwriter and producer (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 17 » Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his Drudge Report website.
• February 3 » Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
• May 4 » A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
• September 14 » Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
• October 10 » A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
• October 14 » Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.

The temperature on October 27, 1998 was between 4.3 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 15.8 mm of rain during 13.9 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.