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• Rijk Pater, Cotonou, Benin († 2009)
• Giovanni van Holland († 1998)
• Alec Bernard Einhaus, San Jose, California († 2006)
• Bas MAGNANI, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 1998)

• Albertus Wijnvoord (77), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Rozendal (79), Steenwijk
• Andrey L Johndrow (41), Whatcom, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Bertine Reijntjens (87), Heerlen
• Adrianus TUK (88), 's-Gravendeel (NL)
• Adriana van der Plas (83), Katwijk aan Zee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Buddy Murl Krause (69)
• Bertha Mae Fowler (89), Columbus County, North Carolina
• Bernard Buesink (71), Hilversum
• Adriana Maria Nooijen (88), Oosterhout

• 1995 » Iván Garcia, Spanish cyclist
• 1995 » Kyle Snyder, American wrestler
• 1995 » Shaolin Sándor Liu, Hungarian short track speed skater
• 1995 » Théo Bongonda, Belgian footballer
• 1995 » Timothy Cheruiyot, Kenyan athlete
• 1996 » Blaž Janc, Slovenian handballer
• 1996 » Denis Zakaria, Swiss footballer
• 1996 » Jack Harrison, English professional footballer
• 1997 » Levi Garcia, Trinidadian footballer
• 2000 » Connie Talbot, English singer-songwriter

• 1995 » Robie Macauley, American editor, novelist and critic (b. 1919)
• 1995 » Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (b. 1967)
• 1997 » Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 1997 » Robert Palmer, American saxophonist, producer, and author (b. 1945)
• 1998 » Galina Starovoytova, Russian ethnographer and politician (b. 1946)
• 1998 » Roland Alphonso, Jamaican saxophonist (b. 1931)
• 1999 » Amintore Fanfani, Italian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1908)
• 2000 » Barbara Sobotta, Polish athlete (b. 1936)
• 2000 » Kalle Päätalo, Finnish author (b. 1919)
• 2000 » Mike Muuss, American computer programmer, created Ping (b. 1958)

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.
• January 23 » Netscape announced Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source.
• March 26 » During the Algerian Civil War, the Oued Bouaicha massacre sees fifty-two people, mostly infants, killed with axes and knives.
• July 17 » The 7.0 M_w  Papua New Guinea earthquake triggers a tsunami that destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured.
• August 7 » Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
• August 26 » The first flight of the Air Force Delta III ends in disaster 75 seconds after liftoff resulting in the loss of the Galaxy X satellite.
• October 29 » The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.

The temperature on November 20, 1998 was between -6.2 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged -2.8 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (78%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.