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• hans christian SAINTENOIS, Charleroi (Belgium) († 2017)

• Adriaan Albertus Benning (22)
• Agnes Katherine Burey (98), Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Wilhelmina Hellemons (75), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonie Scholten (87), Neede
• Anthony Walter Guy Hodgson (80), Bedfordview, Transvaal, South Africa
• Anna Maria Johanna Klijn (90), Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bertha Cailliau (87), Ieper, 8900, West Vlaanderen
• (28), Ronse
• Arie van der Horst (65)
• Armand Petrus Plompen (74), Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen

• 1989 » Siosia Vave, Australian-Tongan rugby league player
• 1991 » Bastian Baker, Swiss singer, songwriter, and performer
• 1991 » Emre Colak, Turkish footballer
• 1992 » Cate Campbell, Malawian-Australian swimmer
• 1992 » Enes Kanter, Turkish basketball player
• 1992 » Jack Gleeson, Irish actor
• 1993 » Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
• 1996 » Brian Kelly, Australian rugby league player
• 1998 » Jamie Chadwick, English race car driver
• 1998 » Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater

• 1995 » Les Cowie, Australian rugby league player (b. 1925)
• 1996 » Jon Pertwee, English actor, portrayed the Third Doctor (b. 1919)
• 1998 » Robert Normann, Norwegian guitarist (b. 1916)
• 2000 » Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Malik Sealy, American basketball player and actor (b. 1970)
• 2000 » Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1933)
• 2001 » Renato Carosone, Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1920)
• 2002 » Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, biologist, and academic (b. 1941)
• 2005 » Paul Ricœur, French philosopher and academic (b. 1913)
• 2005 » William Seawell, American general (b. 1918)

• 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 26 » Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
• May 26 » The first "National Sorry Day" was held in Australia, and reconciliation events were held nationally, and attended by over a million people.
• June 3 » After suffering a mechanical failure, a high speed train derails at Eschede, Germany, killing 101 people.
• July 4 » Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
• August 17 » Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; later that same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about the relationship.
• November 26 » Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.

The temperature on May 20, 1998 was between 9.6 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.