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• Elunia Booij, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Drik Goossens

• Adriana Harteveld (85), Scheveningen ('s-Gravenhage)
• Anna Maria Digna Walthaus (71), Groningen, Nederland
• Amanda Marie Wolverton (86)
• Berendina Johanna Dommerholt (69), Amsterdam
• Barbara Olga Alexander (72), Houston, Harris, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Annechina Pieterdina Vos (83), Loppersum,, Groningen, Nederland
• Bertha Theodora Christina Tollenaar (92), Zwolle
• Adriana Geertruida GOEDENDORP (92), St. Catharines, Ont. Canada
• Annechina Pieterdina Vos (83), Loppersum, Groningen, Nederland
• Charles William Madison II (70), Northwood, Rockingham, New Hampshire, Verenigde Staten

• 1986 » Aoiyama Kōsuke, Bulgarian sumo wrestler
• 1986 » Diego Hypólito, Brazilian gymnast
• 1986 » Lázaro Borges, Cuban pole vaulter
• 1987 » Rashard Mendenhall, American football player
• 1988 » Jacob deGrom, American baseball player
• 1990 » Moa Hjelmer, Swedish sprinter
• 1990 » Xavier Rhodes, American football player
• 1992 » C. J. Mosley, American football player
• 1992 » Keaton Jennings, South African-English cricketer
• 1993 » Olajide Olatunji, English YouTuber

• 1989 » Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (b. 1906)
• 1990 » George Addes, American trade union leader, co-founded United Automobile Workers (b. 1911)
• 1990 » Isabella Smith Andrews, New Zealand writer (b. 1905)
• 1991 » Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1993 » William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (b. 1914)
• 2001 » John Heyer, Australian director and producer (b. 1916)
• 2001 » Stanley Mosk, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1912)
• 2004 » Clayton Kirkpatrick, journalist and newspaper editor (b. 1915)
• 2007 » Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer-songwriter, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)

• 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.
• May 13 » India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
• May 26 » The Supreme Court of the United States rules in New Jersey v. New York that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
• October 31 » Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
• December 8 » Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
• December 29 » Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million lives.
• December 31 » The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.

The temperature on June 19, 1998 was between 13.9 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (20%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.