About the day » Monday February 16, 1998Calender converter

• Bertha Stijf (88), Grand Rapids, Kent, Mi
• Brian John ROBINSON (58), Geelong, Victoria, Australia
• Antonius Adrianus van de Pas (70)
• Alphons Willem Mevissen (88), Schinveld, Limburg, Nederland
• Adrianus Franciscus Cornelis Overgaag (83), Wassenaar
• Anna Johnson (84), Slayton, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Arnoldus Cornelis van Klaveren (44)
• Aletta Baas (89), Ouderkerk aan de IJssel
• Alijda Koldenhof (81), Oene, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bertha Dykgraaf (88), Grand Rapids Kent County Michigan, Verenigde Staten

• 1990 » Dunamis Lui, Australian-Samoan rugby league player
• 1990 » The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1991 » Sergio Canales, Spanish footballer
• 1992 » Nicolai Boilesen, Danish footballer
• 1992 » Zsófia Susányi, Hungarian tennis player
• 1994 » Annika Beck, German tennis player
• 1994 » Ava Max, American singer and songwriter
• 1994 » Federico Bernardeschi, Italian footballer
• 1995 » Carina Witthöft, German tennis player
• 1995 » Katy Dunne, English tennis player

• 1996 » Brownie McGhee, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1915)
• 1996 » Pat Brown, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Governor of California (b. 1905)
• 1996 » Roberto Aizenberg, Argentinian painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
• 1996 » Roger Bowen, American actor and author (b. 1932)
• 1997 » Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist and academic (b. 1912)
• 1998 » Mary Amdur, American toxicologist and public health researcher (b. 1908)
• 2000 » Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-American businessman, founded PING (b. 1911)
• 2000 » Lila Kedrova, Russian-French actress and singer
• 2000 » Marceline Day, American actress (b. 1908)
• 2001 » Howard W. Koch, American director and producer (b. 1916)

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. Johannes
14. Dennis
15. Lars
16. Jacob

1. Laura
2. Sanne
3. Emma
4. Amber
5. Kim
6. Anne
7. Femke
8. Charlotte
9. Lotte
10. Anouk
11. Julia
12. Eva
13. Anna
14. Demi
15. Lisa
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 10 » Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
• July 24 » Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
• August 28 » Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
• October 7 » Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. He died five days later.
• October 29 » ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission.
• 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.

The temperature on February 16, 1998 was between 7.1 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (31%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.