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• Ada Frank (84)
• Carl Richard Bamsch (82), Lakewood, Los Angeles County, California, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Cornelis van Haaren (80), Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agatha Orij- (84), Heemskerk, Nederland
• Adriaan Andries "Arjoan" Jumelet (85), Zierikzee, Nederland
• Christiaan (Christ) de Louw (61), Veghel . Nederland
• Anna Maria Hortentia Clefas (87), Geel, België
• Antonius Zijlmans (73), Oosterhout,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria "Anne Marie" Moritz (103), Dows, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Anthonetta Sterk (81)

• 1989 » Jordin Sparks, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1990 » Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor and singer
• 1992 » Michaela Hončová, Slovak tennis player
• 1992 » Moonbyul from Mamamoo, K-Pop star
• 1993 » David Klemmer, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Meghan Trainor, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1993 » Raphaël Guerreiro, Portuguese footballer
• 1994 » Rúben Lameiras, Portuguese footballer
• 1996 » Mustafizur Rahman, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1998 » G Hannelius, American actress and singer

• 1992 » Harry Bluestone, English violinist and composer (b. 1907)
• 1993 » Don DeFore, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1995 » Butterfly McQueen, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
• 1995 » James Meade, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1996 » Jack Hamm, American cartoonist and television host (b. 1916)
• 1997 » Sebastian Arcos Bergnes, Cuban-American dentist and activist (b. 1931)
• 2001 » Ovidiu Iacov, Romanian footballer (b. 1981)
• 2001 » Walter Newton Read, American lawyer and second chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (b. 1918)
• 2002 » Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese lawyer, politician and President of Guyana (b. 1929)
• 2002 » Joe Strummer, English singer-songwriter (b. 1952)

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.
• February 6 » Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
• February 28 » First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
• May 26 » The first "National Sorry Day" was held in Australia, and reconciliation events were held nationally, and attended by over a million people.
• May 28 » Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
• September 4 » Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
• October 29 » ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission.

The temperature on December 22, 1998 was between 1.3 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.