About the day » Sunday December 6, 1998Calender converter

• Anna Helena Vos (83), Leusden, Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Corali Martins (89), Santo André, São Paulo, Brasil
• Andre Masschelein (85), Staden
• Anna Johanna Maria Ham (78), Schiedam
• Bastiana Rijken (90), Sprang-Capelle
• Catharina Spijker (88), Delden
• Aartje van 't Land (76), Steenderen, Gld, NL
• Bart Poldervaart (58)
• Bastiana Rijken (90), Spang-Capelle
• Cornelia Adriana van den Corput (72), Chaam

• 1992 » Britt Assombalonga, Congolese footballer
• 1992 » Johnny Manziel, American football player
• 1993 » Jasprit Bumrah, Indian cricketer
• 1993 » Pedro Rafael Amado Mendes, Portuguese footballer
• 1993 » Tautau Moga, Australian-Samoan rugby league player
• 1994 » Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player
• 1994 » Shreyas Iyer, Indian Cricketer
• 1996 » Davide Calabria, Italian football player
• 1997 » Sabrina Ionescu, American basketball player
• 1998 » Angelīna Kučvaļska, Latvian figure skater

• 1994 » Gian Maria Volonté, Italian actor and director (b. 1933)
• 1994 » Heinz Baas, German footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• 1996 » Pete Rozelle, American businessman (b. 1926)
• 1997 » Willy den Ouden, Dutch swimmer (b. 1918)
• 1998 » César Baldaccini, French sculptor and educator (b. 1921)
• 2000 » Aziz Mian, Pakistani singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1942)
• 2000 » Werner Klemperer, German-American actor (b. 1920)
• 2001 » Charles McClendon, American football player and coach (b. 1923)
• 2001 » Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (b. 1948)
• 2002 » Philip Berrigan, American priest and activist (b. 1923)

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.
• March 19 » An Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Kabul International Airport, killing all 45 on board.
• May 4 » A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
• May 23 » The Good Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with roughly 75% voting yes.
• June 4 » Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
• August 20 » U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
• November 9 » Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

The temperature on December 6, 1998 was between -1.7 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.