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• Anna Aleida Willemsen (84), Doetinchem
• Bonne Deinum (74), Zeist
• Carlo Augusto Nigra (43), Roma
• Aikina Haak (93), Heggerank, Groningen, NL
• Baudouin Eugène Verhaegen (77), Bruxelles
• Adriana Wilhelmna Dofferhoff (83), Raalte
• Aikina Haak (93), Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Clayton David Phillips (85), Reno Washoe County Nevada, Verenigde Staten
• Antoinette Marie Nobbe (82), Ohio
• Arie Klok (85), Amersfoort

• 1986 » Johnny Cueto, Dominican baseball player
• 1986 » Valeri Bojinov, Bulgarian footballer
• 1987 » Jarrod Sammut, Australian rugby league player
• 1988 » Hironori Kusano, Japanese singer and actor
• 1988 » Jarryd Hayne, Australian rugby league player and football player
• 1988 » Rui Patrício, Portuguese footballer
• 1988 » Tim Mannah, Australian-born Lebanese rugby league player
• 1990 » Charles Pic, French race car driver
• 1991 » Ángel Sepúlveda, Mexican footballer
• 1993 » Ravi, South Korean rapper

• 1992 » María Elena Moyano, Peruvian activist (b. 1960)
• 1992 » William Schuman, American composer and academic (b. 1910)
• 1996 » McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1998 » Martha Gellhorn, American journalist and author (b. 1908)
• 1999 » Big L, American rapper (b. 1974)
• 1999 » Henry Way Kendall, American physicist and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
• 2000 » Angus MacLean, Canadian commander and politician, 25th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1914)
• 2002 » Howard K. Smith, American journalist and actor (b. 1914)
• 2002 » Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
• 2004 » Jens Evensen, Norwegian lawyer, judge, and politician, Norwegian Minister of Trade (b. 1917)

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.
• February 23 » In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42 people.
• April 5 » In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world.
• May 2 » The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
• May 13 » Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
• May 21 » President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule.
• June 4 » Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

The temperature on February 15, 1998 was between 6.6 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.