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• Dooran Winkens, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Charissa Natasja van Oostveen, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

• Agnes Mignauw (92), Harelbeke
• Cornelia Adriana de Bodt (92), tilburg(noord brabant)
• Antonie Hillebrand (68), Zutphen
• Bartholomeus J. Bol (78), Groningen
• Clyde Marvin Roberson (87)
• Edith Mary Woolley (77)
• Antje Chardon (73), Nederland
• Carlos Jack Hoeve (70), Whittier, California, Verenigde Staten
• Alida Neefjes (86), Spanbroek, Opmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus Dijkman (74)

• 1989 » G-Eazy, American rapper
• 1990 » Mattias Ekholm, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1991 » Aled Davies, Welsh discus thrower
• 1991 » Cody Eakin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 » Marcus Bettinelli, English footballer, goalkeeper
• 1994 » Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer
• 1994 » Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer
• 1994 » Emily Nicholl, Scottish netball player
• 1994 » Emily Temple Wood, American 2016 Wikipedian of the Year award
• 1999 » Tarjei Sandvik Moe, Norwegian actor

• 1992 » Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese race car driver (b. 1956)
• 1995 » Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
• 1996 » Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (b. 1934)
• 1996 » Joseph Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (b. 1923)
• 2000 » Kurt Schork, American journalist and scholar (b. 1947)
• 2000 » Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
• 2002 » Wallace Markfield, American author (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Rachel Kempson, English actress (b. 1910)
• 2004 » Henry Ries, German-American photographer (b. 1917)

• 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 31 » Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.
• May 21 » President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule.
• August 10 » HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
• August 20 » The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
• 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.
• September 4 » Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.

The temperature on May 24, 1998 was between 9.8 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.