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• Luco Kluijtmans, Venlo, Limburg, The Netherlands († 1998)

• Adriana Helena Dupain (85)
• Abraham Hendrik Petrus Louw (77)
• Aaltje Bijsterbosch (83), Apeldoorn,Gemeente Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Ankje Jongsma (94), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Anne Boersma (85), -
• Akke van der Meulen (99), Amsterdam
• Anna Petronella Vrenken (84), Roggel
• Clasina Maria Wilhelmina van Rooij (83), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Katherine Setala (98)
• Antje Vermeulen (91), Den Burg

• 1989 » Alyssa Brown, Canadian artistic gymnast
• 1989 » Cam Newton, American football player
• 1989 » Giovani dos Santos, Mexican international footballer
• 1992 » Pablo Sarabia, Spanish footballer
• 1992 » Thibaut Courtois, Belgian footballer
• 1993 » Maurice Harkless, American-Puerto Rican basketball player
• 1994 » Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ethiopian runner
• 1995 » Gelson Martins, Portuguese footballer
• 1999 » Kaitlyn Dias, American actress and voice artist
• 1999 » Sabrina Carpenter, American singer and actress

• 1988 » Kim Philby, British-Soviet double agent (b. 1912)
• 1994 » Timothy Carey, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1928)
• 2001 » Douglas Adams, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1952)
• 2002 » Bill Peet, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 2002 » Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1912)
• 2003 » Noel Redding, English bass player (b. 1945)
• 2005 » Léo Cadieux, Canadian politician, 17th Canadian Minister of National Defence (b. 1908)
• 2006 » Floyd Patterson, American boxer and actor (b. 1935)
• 2007 » Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan ruler (b. 1913)
• 2008 » John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (b. 1953)

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.
• March 4 » Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
• March 24 » Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
• August 20 » U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
• October 14 » Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
• October 29 » The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.
• December 14 » Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.

The temperature on May 11, 1998 was between 14.7 °C and 30.3 °C and averaged 23.2 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.