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• Bowie Zonneveld († 2003)
• Sem van den Dool, Rotterdam († 1999)
• Jacob de Lange-Hope

• Clarence Archibald Gielish (100), Eugene, Lane County, Oregon
• David William ELLETT (92), Clearfield, Davis County, Utah, United States of America
• Cornelis Vertregt (81), Oost Souburg
• Cornelus Antonius Timmermans (76), Boxtel
• Bartholomeus Franciscus Bartels (62), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alfons Frans Van Engeland (94)
• Catharina Maria Slits (65), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Catharina van Loon (61), Amsterdam
• Cornelis Verhoeven (49), Nieuwvliet, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Maatje de Rijcke (85), Koudekerke

• 1985 » Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player († 2013)
• 1986 » Nikolay Bodurov, Bulgarian international footballer, centre-back
• 1989 » Ailee, Korean-American singer and songwriter
• 1989 » Lesia Tsurenko, Ukrainian tennis player
• 1990 » Andrei Loktionov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1991 » Jonathan Fox, English swimmer
• 1992 » Danielle Harold, English actress
• 1992 » Harrison Barnes, American basketball player
• 1994 » Scott Laughton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1996 » Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazilian tennis player

• 1994 » Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
• 1994 » Marcel Bich, Italian-French businessman, co-founded Société Bic (b. 1914)
• 1995 » Bobby Stokes, English footballer (b. 1951)
• 1995 » Lofty England, English-Austrian engineer (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Ted Drake, English footballer and manager (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Alo Mattiisen, Estonian composer (b. 1961)
• 1996 » Léon-Étienne Duval, French cardinal (b. 1903)
• 1999 » Kalju Lepik, Estonian poet and author (b. 1920)
• 2000 » Tex Beneke, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1914)
• 2001 » Denis Whitaker, Canadian general and historian (b. 1915)

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.
• February 28 » Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
• March 24 » A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.
• May 2 » The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
• July 12 » The Ulster Volunteer Force attacked a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers.
• July 17 » The 7.0 M_w  Papua New Guinea earthquake triggers a tsunami that destroys ten villages in Papua New Guinea, killing up to 2,700 people, and leaving several thousand injured.
• 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 30, 1998 was between 10.1 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.