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• Charona SMITHUIS, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Kylian Split, Purmerend
• Brandon van Muijden († 2003)

• Albert Zwart (53), Alkmaar
• Antje Doekes Oostra (86), Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Beletje Kersbergen (95), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Dirk Cornelis Verkerk (96)
• Adriana Maria Hendriks (94), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Zwart (53), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Alida Maria (Bep) van Lunenburg (83), Australie
• Arend Klaas Bareld Draaisma (51), Peize, Nederland
• Christiaan KABEL (72), Lambton Shores (Grand Bend), Ontario, Canada
• Clarence Beyer (85)

• 1987 » Ellen van Dijk, Dutch cyclist
• 1987 » Juanmi Callejón, Spanish footballer
• 1987 » Luca Antonelli, Italian footballer
• 1988 » Vlad Moldoveanu, Romanian basketball player
• 1990 » Javier Aquino, Mexican footballer
• 1991 » Nikola Mirotic, Spanish basketball player
• 1992 » Lasse Norman Hansen, Danish track and road cyclist
• 1993 » Ben McLemore, American basketball player
• 1994 » Dansby Swanson, American baseball player
• 1996 » Jonathan Tah, German footballer

• 1993 » Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
• 1994 » Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (b. 1946)
• 1994 » Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-Swiss philosopher and academic (b. 1924)
• 1994 » Sorrell Booke, American lieutenant, actor, and director (b. 1930)
• 1994 » William Conrad, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1920)
• 1996 » Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet and author (b. 1930)
• 2000 » Lord Kitchner, Trinidadian singer (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Roger Vadim, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2002 » Barry Foster, English actor (b. 1931)
• 2002 » Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player and coach (b. 1910)

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. 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.
• July 12 » The Ulster Volunteer Force attacked a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers.
• August 15 » Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220 others injured.
• October 12 » Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.
• October 29 » Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
• November 20 » The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
• December 29 » Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million lives.

The temperature on February 11, 1998 was between 5.9 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (51%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.