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• Willem Jespers, Duffel († 1998)

• Alberta Johanna van Es (90), Ridderkerk
• Ad Buijs (63), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Anthonie Beekhuizen (95)
• Akke de Jong (80)
• Albert Lee van de Kieft (74), Prairie City, Jasper County, Iowa
• Adolphe Henri Joseph Marie Majoie (87), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Petronella Bommer (92), Waarland, Harenkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonetta Cornelia Laseroms (82), Veldhoven
• Azuerus Gerrit Verwer (69), Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Arline Marie Vergowe (81), Sheboygan Co., Wisconsin

• 1988 » Jonathan Biabiany, French footballer
• 1989 » Emil Salomonsson, Swedish footballer
• 1989 » Kim Sung-kyu, South Korean singer
• 1990 » Niels-Peter Mørck, Danish footballer
• 1992 » Blake Bortles, American football player
• 1992 » DeMarcus Lawrence, American football player
• 1993 » Craig Garvey, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Eva Samková, Czech snowboarder
• 1995 » Jonathan Benteke, Belgian footballer
• 1995 » Melanie Martinez, American singer

• 1994 » Berton Roueché, American journalist and author (b. 1910)
• 1996 » Lester Sumrall, American minister, founded LeSEA (b. 1913)
• 1997 » Ann Petry, American novelist (b. 1908)
• 1998 » Jerome Bixby, American author and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 1999 » Alf Ramsey, English footballer and manager (b. 1920)
• 1999 » Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
• 1999 » Rolf Landauer, German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1927)
• 1999 » Rory Calhoun, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish physician and politician (b. 1925)
• 2000 » Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet (b. 1916)

• 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 4 » The 5.9 M_w  Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With 2,323 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme.
• February 6 » Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
• February 16 » China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground.
• February 28 » First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
• May 6 » Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his fifth career start.
• 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.

The temperature on April 28, 1998 was between 7.4 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.