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• Hanna van Veen († 1998)

• Adriaan Rijkeboer (75), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Plaggenborg (81)
• Alphonsus Josephus Hendriks (95), Ravels (België)
• Christina Hermina Theodora Ebbers (95), Groenlo, Nederland
• Anna Maria Catharina Mulders (94), Roermond
• Alfons Goris (86), Wiekevorst / Belgie
• Adriana Wilhelmina Vastenhout (91), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Tjidsgers Laanstra (79)
• Bernardus Stuijts (87)
• Aleida van den Hazel (72), Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1986 » Penn Badgley, American actor and television personality
• 1987 » Ileana D'Cruz, Indian film actress
• 1988 » Masahiro Tanaka, Japanese baseball player
• 1991 » Jiang Yuyuan, Chinese gymnast
• 1991 » Reece Brown, English footballer
• 1991 » Eyþór Arnarson, Icelandic skier
• 1994 » James Ward-Prowse, English footballer
• 1995 » Margarita Mamun, Russian gymnast
• 1996 » Jeongyeon, Korean singer
• 1996 » Lil Peep, American singer and rapper († 2017)

• 1993 » A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian and scholar (b. 1911)
• 1993 » Severo Ochoa, Spanish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1994 » Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (b. 1913)
• 1996 » J. R. Jayewardene, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Sri Lanka (b. 1906)
• 1999 » Theodore Hall, American physicist and spy (b. 1925)
• 1999 » Walter Payton, American football player and race car driver (b. 1954)
• 2000 » George Armstrong, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
• 2004 » Mac Dre, American rapper and producer, founded Thizz Entertainment (b. 1970)
• 2004 » Terry Knight, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1943)
• 2005 » Skitch Henderson, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1918)

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 20 » American figure skater Tara Lipinski, at the age of 15, becomes the youngest Olympic figure skating gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
• April 6 » Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $76billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.
• August 10 » HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
• August 24 » First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
• 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.
• November 9 » Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

The temperature on November 1, 1998 was between 4.8 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 18.3 mm of rain during 7.0 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.