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• Frida Adriana (Arida) Groeneveld, Utrecht († 1998)
• Reilly Evan Koopmans, Peterborough (Ont-Canada)
• Joachim Gijbels, Hasselt-Limburg, België († 1998)

• Frank Aguillon Charles (74), Laredo, County of Webb, State of Texas
• Anna Maria Catharina Wolzak (91), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Dekkers (78), Bakel
• Clifford Jay Gritter (72), Kent County (Michigan)
• Basil Alexander ERB (74), Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
• Anna Maria WILMS (86), Brunssum, Limburg, Nederland
• Clayton Summers (74), Cheektowaga, Erie, New York
• Arentje Stok (100)
• Aaltje Elisabeth MOLEVELD (84), Den Haag
• Antonius Hermanus Franciscus Liedenbaum (64), Oss,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1989 » Cam Atkinson, American ice hockey player
• 1990 » Radko Gudas, Czech ice hockey defenceman
• 1991 » Sören Bertram, German footballer
• 1992 » Emily Seebohm, Australian swimmer
• 1992 » Joazhiño Arroe, Peruvian footballer
• 1993 » Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, Samoan-New Zealand rugby league player
• 1995 » Ross Wilson, English table tennis player
• 1995 » Troye Sivan, South African–born Australian singer-songwriter, actor, and YouTuber
• 1997 » Sam Darnold, American football player
• 1998 » Yulia Lipnitskaya, Russian figure skater

• 1993 » Conway Twitty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1933)
• 1996 » Acharya Kuber Nath Rai, Indian poet and scholar (b. 1933)
• 1997 » J. Anthony Lukas, American journalist and author (b. 1933)
• 1998 » Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
• 1998 » Sam Yorty, American soldier and politician, 37th Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
• 1999 » Mel Tormé, American singer-songwriter (b. 1925)
• 2000 » Don Liddle, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 2002 » Dee Dee Ramone, American singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1951)
• 2003 » Jürgen Möllemann, German soldier and politician, 10th Vice-Chancellor of Germany (b. 1945)
• 2003 » Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)

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. Dennis
14. Johannes
15. Lars
16. Pieter

1. Laura
2. Sanne
3. Emma
4. Amber
5. Kim
6. Anne
7. Femke
8. Charlotte
9. Anouk
10. Lotte
11. Julia
12. Eva
13. Lisa
14. Anna
15. Demi
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 6 » Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
• March 2 » Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
• March 27 » The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
• May 11 » India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.
• 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.
• 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.

The temperature on June 5, 1998 was between 7.8 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.