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• Marieke Kooi, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anne Kooi, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Lideweij Adrianne Tromp

• Aaltje Buisman (91), Apeldoorn
• Anthonius de Boer (83), Hilversum
• Arend Jan Elskamp
• Delores Corbin (88), Vernon, Tolland, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Geertruida Maria de Wild (91), Ameide (Vijfheerenlanden), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Damstra (79), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dirk Janz Jellema (59), Harlingen, Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Dirk Muijskens (86), West-Terschelling, Nederland
• Dirk Janz jellema (59), Harlingen
• Anna Houtters (84), La Puente, California, Verenigde Staten

• 1987 » Asami Konno, Japanese singer
• 1987 » Mark Reynolds, Scottish footballer
• 1987 » Michael Maidens, English footballer († 2007)
• 1988 » Eino Puri, Estonian footballer
• 1988 » Sander Puri, Estonian footballer
• 1989 » Earl Thomas, American football player
• 1995 » Seko Fofana, French born Ivorian international footballer
• 1997 » Daria Kasatkina, Russian tennis player
• 1998 » Jesse Puljujärvi, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1998 » Maryna Piddubna, Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer

• 1994 » Clement Greenberg, American art critic (b. 1909)
• 1995 » Ray McKinley, American drummer, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
• 1998 » Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
• 2000 » Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, French author and politician (b. 1912)
• 2004 » Waldemar Milewicz, Polish journalist (b. 1956)
• 2005 » Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980)
• 2005 » Peter Rodino, American captain and politician (b. 1909)
• 2005 » Tristan Egolf, American author and activist (b. 1971)

• 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 25 » During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
• February 20 » American figure skater Tara Lipinski, at the age of 15, becomes the youngest Olympic figure skating gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
• 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 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 24 » First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
• August 26 » The first flight of the Air Force Delta III ends in disaster 75 seconds after liftoff resulting in the loss of the Galaxy X satellite.

The temperature on May 7, 1998 was between 10.0 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.