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• Kirsten Weekamp († 1998)
• Wesley van den Dobbelsteen, Sneek († 1998)
• Wesley Marcs van den Dobbelsteen, Sneek, Gem. Sneek, Friesland, Nederland († 1998)
• Marloes Weekamp († 1998)
• jules wijnands

• Arie Lambertus Boshuizen (95), Nijkerk
• Aletta Anna Maria Stolk (64), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arie Lambertus Boshuizen (95), Leusden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Burnell A. Feeser (78), McSherrystown, Adams County, Pennsylvania
• Catharina Johanna VERHEES (83), Helmond
• Adrianus Cornelis Catharina Borgers (73), Leende, Noord-Brabant
• Anna Rosalia SALOMON (89)
• Achiel Jean Prosper De Martelaere (80), Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Antonia Francisca van Gerven (90), Horn
• Aukien Huizing (91), Schoonoord

• 1993 » El Hadji Ba, French footballer
• 1993 » Harry Maguire, English footballer
• 1993 » Joshua Coyne, American violinist and composer
• 1994 » Daria Gavrilova, Russian-Australian tennis player
• 1994 » Kyle Schwarber, American baseball player
• 1996 » Emmanuel Mudiay, Congolese basketball player
• 1996 » Taylor Hill, American model
• 1997 » Milena Venega, Cuban rower
• 1998 » Bo Bichette, American baseball player
• 1999 » Madison Beer, American singer, songwriter and producer.

• 1988 » Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor (b. 1933)
• 1990 » Gary Merrill, American actor and director (b. 1915)
• 1995 » Vivian Stanshall, English singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1943)
• 1996 » Whit Bissell, American character actor (b. 1909)
• 1997 » Jean Dréville, French director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1997 » Samm Sinclair Baker, American writer (b. 1909)
• 1999 » Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Lolo Ferrari, French dancer, actress and singer (b. 1963)
• 2005 » David Sheppard, English cricketer and bishop (b. 1929)
• 2008 » Joseph Weizenbaum, German computer scientist and author (b. 1923)

• 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.
• March 24 » A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.
• March 27 » The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
• September 27 » The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday.
• October 29 » Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
• November 20 » The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
• December 4 » The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.

The temperature on March 5, 1998 was between 3.8 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 15.9 mm of rain during 8.3 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.