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• Catherine Mollie (Infant) NEWMAN († 1998)
• Florenske Bremmers († 2021)
• femke basten, helden-beringe
• Tjibbe (Willem Anthonius) Masselink, Haarlem / Noord-Holland
• Ashley Sue van Wingerden, Denver CO († 2009)

• Ernest Antonius Josephus Ignatius Goijarts (85), Tilburg,Gemeente Tilburg,North Brabant,Netherlands
• Adriaan Nieuwburg (87)
• Edna Mae Crum (78), Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, VS
• Arie Korteweg (85), Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Corstiana Oudijk (81), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aafje van Dijkum (54), Wormer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Edna Bruggink (94), Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin
• Arie van der Maarel (72), Naaldwijk, Nederland
• Alida Elizabeth van der Heijden (95), Lelystad (Fl)
• Baziel Alphonse Blondeel (88), Seattle, King, Washington (USA)

• 1987 » AnnaLynne McCord, American actress and producer
• 1987 » Mousa Dembélé, Belgian footballer
• 1988 » Sergio Busquets, Spanish footballer
• 1989 » Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer
• 1990 » Bureta Faraimo, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 » Johann Zarco, French motorcycle racer
• 1990 » Wizkid, Nigerian singer and songwriter
• 1991 » Andros Townsend, English footballer
• 1991 » Nate Schmidt, American ice hockey player
• 1996 » Daniel Pearson, English actor and presenter

• 1994 » Julian Schwinger, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1995 » May Sarton, American playwright and novelist (b. 1912)
• 1995 » Stephen Spender, English author and poet (b. 1909)
• 1996 » Adolf von Thadden, German lieutenant and politician (b. 1921)
• 1998 » John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
• 1999 » Alan Macnaughton, Canadian lawyer and politician, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (b. 1903)
• 1999 » John F. Kennedy Jr., American lawyer and publisher (b. 1960)
• 2001 » Morris, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923)
• 2002 » John Cocke, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1925)
• 2003 » Celia Cruz, Cuban-American singer and actress (b. 1925)

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 1 » Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
• February 23 » In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42 people.
• May 2 » The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
• May 6 » Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. unveils the first iMac.
• July 17 » A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
• October 10 » A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.

The temperature on July 16, 1998 was between 9.1 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.