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

• Antje Doekes Oostra (86), Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Cecile L Fawcett (87), fortasse, somewhere, Verenigde Staten
• Bernard Eugène HAMARD (70), Brain-sur-l'Authion, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France
• Adriana Maria Hendriks (94), Waalwijk,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernardus Wohrmann (67), Malle in België
• Aaltje Ebeltje Nel (91)
• Albert Zwart (53), Alkmaar
• Arend Klaas Bareld Draaisma (51), Peize, Nederland
• Cornelia Catharina Maria van Gils (82), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Hillegonda Bruinsma (37), Workum, 8711, Nederland

• 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)

• 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 23 » In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42 people.
• March 4 » Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
• August 17 » Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; later that same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about the relationship.
• October 29 » While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of six and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland. The plane instead lands in Ankara after the pilot tricked the hijacker into thinking that he is landing in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia to refuel.
• December 14 » Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.
• December 26 » Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.

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.