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• Anna Jolene Novak († 1999)
• Erika Elisabeth Araya Hamers, Liberia, Costa Rica

• Carl Pershing Harmeling (80), Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
• Adriana Johanna Vaders (46), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bertha van Amersfoort (84), Barneveld, Nederland
• Cornelia Afra Alida (zus-Connie) Deen (85), Chico GA-USA
• Alice VAN BRITSOM (88), Antwerpen
• Antonia Maria Pronk (76)
• Annie REMMER (74), Thuine/Suttrup (D)
• Berbke Ritterbex (87), Echt, Netherlands
• Catharina Maria Christina van de Venne (89), Weert, Limburg, Netherlands
• "Monique" Marie Alice Marchal (89), Versailles, Yvelines, France

• 1990 » Blake Leary, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Lukman Haruna, Nigerian footballer
• 1991 » Reality Winner, American intelligence specialist convicted of espionage
• 1992 » Jean-Claude Iranzi, Rwandan footballer
• 1992 » Kim Seok-Jin, South Korean singer, songwriter and actor
• 1992 » Peta Hiku, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1996 » Diogo Jota, Portuguese professional footballer
• 1996 » Ivan Belikov, Russian footballer
• 1996 » Sebastián Vegas, Chilean footballer
• 1996 » Sheryl Sheinafia, Indonesian singer-songwriter and actress

• 1992 » Henry Clausen, American lawyer and author (b. 1905)
• 1993 » Frank Zappa, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1940)
• 1993 » Margaret Landon, American missionary and author (b. 1903)
• 1999 » Rose Bird, American academic and judge, 25th Chief Justice of California (b. 1936)
• 2000 » Henck Arron, Surinamese banker and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Suriname (b. 1936)
• 2003 » Iggy Katona, American race car driver (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano and actress (b. 1943)
• 2005 » Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand soldier and author (b. 1924)
• 2005 » Gregg Hoffman, American film producer (b. 1963)
• 2006 » K. Ganeshalingam, Sri Lankan accountant and politician, Mayor of Colombo (b. 1938)

• 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.
• March 31 » Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.
• May 30 » The 6.5 M_w  Afghanistan earthquake shook the Takhar Province of northern Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), killing around 4,000–4,500.
• June 3 » After suffering a mechanical failure, a high speed train derails at Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.
• July 12 » The Ulster Volunteer Force attacked a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers.
• October 29 » Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
• November 19 » Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.

The temperature on December 4, 1998 was between -1.2 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.