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• Donate Groeneveld, Leerdam († 1998)

• Adrianus Johannes Marinus de Rooij (66), Roosendaal,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Fernhout (87), Doetichem
• Cecilia Lambertusdr. Molenaar (77), Giekerk, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Della Rae** DEAN (97), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
• David Stevens Cowan (75)
• Cornelis Hartman, Hilversum
• Tappel (89), Musselkanaal, Nederland
• Aaldert Willem Bloemendaal (56), Zetten (GL)
• Anna Maria Gaal (84)
• Dirk Schaap (87), Katwijk

• 1947 » Ada Kok, Dutch butterfly stroke swimmer; winner of three Olympic medals including gold in 1968.
• 1947 » David Blunkett, British Labour politician; Home Secretary 2001–2004.
• 1947 » Robert Englund, American actor; best known for Nightmare on Elm Street.
• 1948 » Arlene Harris, American entrepreneur, inventor, investor and policy advocate.
• 1949 » Holly Near, American folk singer and songwriter.
• 1954 » Harvey Fierstein, American actor and playwright; twice a winner at the Tony Awards.
• 1954 » Wladyslaw Zmuda, Polish footballer and manager; 91 caps for Poland and voted Best Young Player at the 1974 FIFA World Cup.
• 1955 » Sam Simon, American director, producer and screenwriter; co-developer of The Simpsons († 2015).
• 1956 » Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player; winner of eleven Grand Slam singles titles including five consecutive Wimbledons.
• 1972 » Natalie Morales, American television journalist and NBC News anchor.

• 1983 » Hans Leip, German author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
• 1984 » A. Bertram Chandler, English-Australian soldier and author (b. 1912)
• 1991 » Stan Getz, American saxophonist and jazz innovator (b. 1927)
• 1994 » Barry Sullivan, American film actor (b. 1912)
• 1996 » George Davis Snell, American geneticist and immunologist; awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 for his studies of histocompatibility (b. 1903)
• 2005 » Anne Bancroft, American film actress; winner of the 1963 Academy Award for Best Actress for The Miracle Worker (b. 1931)
• 2006 » Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1946)
• 2009 » Jean Dausset, French-Spanish immunologist and academic; awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of the genetic basis of immunological reaction (b. 1916)
• 2012 » Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player; together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, formed the famed KLM Line. (b. 1960)
• 2013 » Jerome Karle, American crystallographer and academic; awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research into the molecular structure of chemical compounds (b. 1918)

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. Demi
14. Lisa
15. Anna
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.
• January 13 » Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against homophobia.
• 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.
• August 10 » HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
• 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.
• August 30 » Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
• November 20 » The first space station module component, Zarya, for the International Space Station was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The temperature on June 6, 1998 was between 14.5 °C and 26.3 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 48.3 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.