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• Anna Lena Vermy (87)
• Christiaan DREVES (75), Hoek,Gemeente Terneuzen,NETHERLANDS
• Annie Maassen (71)
• Alfred René Opdam (42), Castricum
• Chris Heesen (65), Winterswijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anne Geerts de Vries (83), Zwaagwesteinde
• Adam Eugenius Antonius GROFFEN (83), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andries Hondema (85)
• Anne de Vries (83), -
• Antonius Petrus Cornelius van Helderen (80), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1988 » Jakub Kovář, Czech ice hockey player
• 1988 » Kevin Großkreutz, German footballer
• 1988 » Shane Dawson, American comedian and actor
• 1989 » Sam McKendry, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
• 1991 » Eray İşcan, Turkish footballer
• 1992 » Jake Nicholson, English footballer
• 1994 » Christian Welch, Australian rugby league player
• 1996 » Paul Momirovski, Australian rugby league player
• 1998 » Erin Cuthbert, footballer
• 1998 » Ronaldo Vieira, Bissau-Guinean footballer

• 1992 » Paolo Borsellino, Italian lawyer and judge (b. 1940)
• 1994 » Victor Barbeau, Canadian author and academic (b. 1896)
• 1998 » Elmer Valo, Polish-American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1921)
• 2002 » Alan Lomax, American historian, scholar, and activist (b. 1915)
• 2002 » Dave Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1952)
• 2003 » Bill Bright, American evangelist and author, founded the Campus Crusade for Christ (b. 1921)
• 2003 » Pierre Graber, Swiss politician, President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1908)
• 2004 » Francis A. Marzen, American priest and journalist (b. 1924)
• 2004 » J. Gordon Edwards, American entomologist, mountaineer, and DDT advocate (b. 1919)
• 2004 » Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor (b. 1902)

• 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 17 » Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his Drudge Report website.
• 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 12 » Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto.
• May 30 » Nuclear Testing: Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of 20kt TNT equivalent.
• August 15 » Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220 others injured.
• December 14 » Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.

The temperature on July 19, 1998 was between 11.7 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.