About the day » Wednesday October 7, 1998Calender converter

• Myrthe Weijermars
• Rick Weijermars
• Sietse KLINCKAERT, AZ Kamer 210, Jette, 1090, Brabant, Belgïe

• Anna Weismann (63)
• Antonius Hendricus LENSINK (98), Zeist
• Dee Ray Bastin (67)
• Ate Aukes Smit (97), Wommels, Hennaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Elbert Lawson Young (77)
• Douglas Duncan Durno (71), Grayslake, Lake Co., Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Anke Jans Penninga (83), Oudwoude
• Charles Theodore Stang (89), Sellersville, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States
• Adrianus Schillemans (77), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Evert Leidekker (78), Veenendaal

• 1989 » Trent Merrin, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Sebastián Coates, Uruguayan footballer
• 1991 » Lay, Chinese singer-songwriter and actor
• 1992 » Mookie Betts, American baseball player
• 1995 » Bram van Vlerken, Dutch professional football player
• 1995 » Lloyd Jones, English professional footballer
• 1995 » Lyndon Dykes, Australian professional footballer
• 1995 » Mathias Dyngeland, Norwegian footballer
• 1998 » Trent Alexander-Arnold, English professional footballer
• 2001 » Princess Senate Seeiso, Princess of Lesotho

• 1993 » Cyril Cusack, South African-born Irish actor (b. 1910)
• 1994 » Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish-English physician and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Ivan Hutchinson, Australian film critic and author (b. 1928)
• 1995 » Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian-Czech-American mathematician, attendant of the Vienna Circle (b. 1906)
• 1996 » Lou Lichtveld, Surinamese-Dutch author, playwright, and politician (b. 1903)
• 1998 » Cees de Vreugd, Dutch strongman and weightlifter (b. 1952)
• 2001 » Christopher Adams, English-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1955)
• 2001 » Herblock, American cartoonist and author (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Roger Gaudry, Canadian chemist and businessman (b. 1913)
• 2002 » Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)

1. Nick
2. Niels
3. Thomas
4. Daan
5. Robin
6. Tim
7. Jan
8. Max
9. Bas
10. Bram
11. Kevin
12. Dennis
13. Rick
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. Demi
14. Lisa
15. Anna
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 25 » A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
• March 26 » During the Algerian Civil War, the Oued Bouaicha massacre sees fifty-two people, mostly infants, killed with axes and knives.
• August 10 » HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
• September 2 » Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; all 229 people onboard are killed.
• October 29 » The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.
• December 19 » President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached.

The temperature on October 7, 1998 was between 6.8 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.