About the day » Saturday July 4, 1998Calender converter

• Jan Bellis († 1998)
• Thais Calaerts, Herentals, 2200, Antwerpen, België

• Anna Lamberta Van De VEN
• Anna Maria Versteeg (91), Vianen, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Adrianus Alphonsus Verhoeven (80), Gilze en Rijen, Gemeente Gilze en Rijen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Fronik (80)
• Cornelia (Kee) Lavooij (90)
• Connie Lynn Cowsert (47), South Saint Paul, Dakota, Minnesota
• Cornelis Petrus Wijnker (74), Zijdewind, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Barbara Frederica Maria Smulders (76), Tilburg, Nederland
• Adriana Hendrika van Rijsewijk (90), Oisterwijk
• Anna Maria Overberg (95), Slagharen

• 1990 » Ihar Yasinski, Belarusian footballer
• 1990 » Jake Gardiner, American ice hockey player
• 1990 » Naoki Yamada, Japanese footballer
• 1990 » Richard Mpong, Ghanaian footballer
• 1992 » Ángel Romero, Paraguayan footballer
• 1992 » Óscar Romero, Paraguayan footballer
• 1993 » Tom Barkhuizen, English footballer
• 1995 » Post Malone, American singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer
• 1999 » Moa Kikuchi, Japanese musician
• 2003 » Polina Bogusevich, Russian singer

• 1993 » Bona Arsenault, Canadian historian, genealogist, and politician (b. 1903)
• 1994 » Joey Marella, American wrestling referee (b. 1964)
• 1995 » Bob Ross, American painter and television host (b. 1942)
• 1995 » Eva Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and singer (b. 1919)
• 1997 » Charles Kuralt, American journalist (b. 1934)
• 1997 » John Zachary Young, English zoologist and neurophysiologist (b. 1907)
• 1999 » Leo Garel, American illustrator and educator (b. 1917)
• 2000 » Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1919)
• 2002 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American general (b. 1912)
• 2002 » Gerald Bales, Canadian organist and composer (b. 1919)

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. Jacob

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. Anna
14. Lisa
15. Demi
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 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 7 » Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
• May 21 » In Miami, five abortion clinics are attacked by a butyric acid attacker.
• July 6 » Hong Kong International Airport opens in Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong, replacing Kai Tak Airport as the city's international airport.
• 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 July 4, 1998 was between 12.4 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.