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• Alvina van der Einde (92), Willmar, Kandiyohi county, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Aloysio Falcäao de Paula Lopes (71), Recife Pernambuco Republiek van Brazilië
• Cornelia Planije (95), Rotterdam
• Anna Hermine Terlinden (81), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus Wilhelmus Overmars (67), Timarau, New Zealand
• Alida Maria Hoogervorst (94), Alphen aan den Rijn
• Adrianus Hendrikus Nicolaas Breij (54), Heerhugowaard
• Cordia C Hampton (92)
• Coenraad (Coen) Ouwens (90), Sommelsdijk
• Arie Jan Davelaar (48), Nijkerk

• 1984 » Nikolaos Karabelas, Greek footballer
• 1990 » JoJo, American singer and actress
• 1991 » Fabian Schär, Swiss footballer
• 1991 » Jillian Rose Reed, American actress
• 1991 » Jorginho, Brazilian footballer
• 1991 » Rachael Boyle, Scottish footballer
• 1992 » Ksenia Makarova, Russian-American figure skater
• 1993 » Robeisy Ramírez, Cuban boxer
• 1997 » De'Aaron Fox, American basketball player
• 1997 » Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer

• 1994 » Dean Rusk, American lawyer, and politician, 54th United States Secretary of State (b. 1909)
• 1995 » Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (b. 1938)
• 1996 » Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (b. 1934)
• 1997 » Dawn Steel, American film producer (b. 1946)
• 1997 » Denise Levertov, English-American poet and translator (b. 1923)
• 1997 » Dick Spooner, English cricketer (b. 1919)
• 1998 » Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 1999 » Hank Snow, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Riccardo Freda, Egyptian-Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician, 1st President of Senegal (b. 1906)

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.
• May 13 » Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
• May 26 » The first "National Sorry Day" was held in Australia, and reconciliation events were held nationally, and attended by over a million people.
• June 5 » A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks.
• July 17 » A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
• September 4 » Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
• November 26 » The Khanna rail disaster takes 212 lives in Khanna, Ludhiana, India.

The temperature on December 20, 1998 was between -1.0 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.