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• João Francisco Lontra Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim, Brasil
• Sichelle van der Meulen († 2002)
• Daniel kanselaar († 2022)
• Sichelle van der Meulen († 2002)

• André BLANCKAERT (87), Roeselare
• André Blanckaert (87), Roeselare,8800,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Baukje Sytses Elzenga (76), Drachten
• Baukje Sytses Elzenga (76), Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelia Maria Nieuwenhuizen (86), Weesp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Schoolderman (90), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Carel Hendrik Christiaan VALKEN (86), Den Haag
• Christiaan Hendrikus Velthoven (81), Rotterdam
• Wilhelm Bernardus van Trigt (59), Zaanstad
• Bauke van der Laan (70), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1991 » Matty James, English footballer
• 1992 » Anja Aguilar, Filipino actress and singer
• 1992 » Carolin Schnarre, German Paralympic equestrian
• 1992 » Selena Gomez, American singer and actress
• 1993 » Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Kyrgyzstani-American terrorist
• 1994 » Jaz Sinclair, American film and television actress
• 1995 » Armaan Malik, Indian playback singer, composer and songwriter
• 1995 » Ezekiel Elliott, American football player
• 1996 » Skyler Gisondo, American actor
• 2002 » Prince Felix of Denmark

• 1992 » David Wojnarowicz, American painter, photographer, and activist (b. 1954)
• 1995 » Harold Larwood, English-Australian cricketer (b. 1904)
• 1996 » Rob Collins, English keyboard player (b. 1956)
• 1998 » Fritz Buchloh, German footballer and coach (b. 1909)
• 2000 » Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1925)
• 2000 » Claude Sautet, French director and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 2000 » Eric Christmas, English-born Canadian actor (b. 1916)
• 2000 » Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist and academic (b. 1920)
• 2001 » Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (b. 1909)
• 2004 » Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (b. 1933)

• 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 16 » China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground.
• March 4 » Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc.: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
• June 5 » A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants. The strike lasts seven weeks.
• August 7 » Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
• November 20 » A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
• December 29 » Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million lives.

The temperature on July 22, 1998 was between 12.0 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (77%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.