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• Bertha Siefken (92), Grundy County Memorial Hospital, Long Term Care, Grundy Center, Grundy County, Iowa
• Elisa Maria Catharina Widdershoven (84)
• Alle Ytzens Ytsma (92), Surhuizum
• Catharina Johanna Geertruid Weenink (87), Winterswijk
• Dora Relouw (84), Venlo
• Catharina van Marion (73), Westvoorne, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Claude Richard Van Leeuwen (78), Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States
• Alphonsus Johannes Aarts (68), Alphen en Riel
• Albert Joazef Gabriel Daelemans (66), Boom, Antwerpen, België
• Annigje Lindenhols (81)

• 1988 » Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
• 1988 » John Goossens, Dutch footballer
• 1988 » Paulinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 » Stacey Kemp, English skater
• 1988 » Tom Hiariej, Dutch footballer
• 1989 » Natalia Vieru, Russian basketball player
• 1990 » Thodoris Karapetsas, Greek footballer
• 1991 » Toni Duggan, English footballer
• 1992 » Sergei Simonov, Russian ice hockey player († 2016)
• 1997 » Nat Butcher, Australian rugby league player

• 1991 » Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician (b. 1893)
• 1992 » Alfred Drake, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
• 1995 » Charlie Rich, American singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
• 1997 » Ben Hogan, American golfer (b. 1912)
• 1998 » Evangelos Papastratos, Greek businessman, co-founded Papastratos (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Rudi Faßnacht, German footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1934)
• 2002 » Abdel Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher and poet (b. 1917)
• 2003 » John Schlesinger, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Ludwig Bölkow, German engineer (b. 1912)
• 2004 » John Passmore, Australian philosopher and academic (b. 1914)

• 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.
• May 6 » Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. unveils the first iMac.
• May 28 » Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
• August 10 » HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
• September 2 » Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; all 229 people onboard are killed.
• October 29 » The Gothenburg discothèque fire in Sweden kills 63 and injures 200.
• November 9 » Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

The temperature on July 25, 1998 was between 9.3 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.