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• Anne Claire Welbergen, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1998)

• Albert ten Oever (80), Steenwijk, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Langenhuizen (81), Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Nanne (87), Castricum
• Anne Claire Welbergen (0), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius den Ouden (75), Harderwijk
• Cassie Hazel Jessee (88), Marion, Shelby County, Indiana
• Claude Leo Dionne (77), El Dorado County, California, Verenigde Staten
• Edgard Philibert (79), Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen
• Albert ten Oever * (80), Steenwijk
• Adrianus Antonius Gelten (80), Halsteren

• 1987 » Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian footballer
• 1989 » Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi Cricketer
• 1989 » Xavier Dolan, Canadian actor and director
• 1990 » Blake Ferguson, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Marcos Rojo, Argentine footballer
• 1991 » Ethan Lowe, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Mattia Destro, Italian footballer
• 1991 » Michał Kucharczyk, Polish footballer
• 1993 » Sloane Stephens, American tennis player
• 1995 » Jack Bird, Australian rugby league player

• 1992 » Georges Delerue, French composer (b. 1925)
• 1993 » Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1994 » Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist (b. 1946)
• 1997 » V. S. Pritchett, English short story writer, essayist, and critic (b. 1900)
• 1999 » Patrick Heron, British painter (b. 1920)
• 2000 » Gene Eugene, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1961)
• 2001 » Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (b. 1949)
• 2004 » Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)
• 2004 » Pierre Sévigny, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1917)
• 2005 » Armand Lohikoski, American-Finnish director and screenwriter (b. 1912)

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. Lisa
14. Anna
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.
• January 4 » A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
• June 4 » Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
• 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.
• December 4 » The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.
• December 31 » The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.

The temperature on March 20, 1998 was between 3.6 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.