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• Laura Maria Hanriette Jansen, Nieuwegein, Utrecht, Nederland
• Mitchell William Pietenpol, Duluth, GA (US) († 2003)

• Antonius Joannes Maria BOGAERS (82), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus de Boer (64), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Donald R. CAYWOOD (67)
• Carolina Johanna Maria (Carolina) Maessen (95), Panningen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonius Joannes Maria Bogaers (82), Tilburg, NB Netherlands
• Anna Hendrika Fitters (91), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Agatha Neeltje Jongerbloed (74), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Clement Prudent Jacobus de Witte (85), Hulst,, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aldegonda Hendrika POELL (86), Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands
• Adrianus Cornelis Willemse (90), Dongen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1988 » Martin Liivamägi, Estonian swimmer
• 1989 » Charlie Austin, English footballer
• 1989 » Dwight King, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Georgios Efrem, Cypriot footballer
• 1990 » Abeba Aregawi, Ethiopian-Swedish runner
• 1992 » Alberto Moreno, Spanish footballer
• 1992 » Chiara Scholl, American tennis player
• 1993 » Yaroslav Kosov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1994 » Diana Harkusha, Ukrainian lawyer, dancer, model and beauty queen
• 1994 » Shohei Ohtani, Japanese baseball player

• 1991 » Howard Nemerov, American poet and essayist (b. 1920)
• 1995 » Jüri Järvet, Estonian actor and screenwriter (b. 1919)
• 1997 » A. Thangathurai, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (b. 1936)
• 1998 » Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)
• 2002 » Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (b. 1924)
• 2002 » Ted Williams, American baseball player and manager (b. 1918)
• 2004 » Hugh Shearer, Jamaican journalist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1923)
• 2004 » Rodger Ward, American race car driver and sportscaster (b. 1921)
• 2005 » James Stockdale, American admiral (b. 1923)
• 2006 » Gert Fredriksson, Swedish canoe racer (b. 1919)

• 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 12 » Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
• May 4 » A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
• July 10 » Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
• October 16 » Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
• November 9 » A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.
• December 4 » The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.

The temperature on July 5, 1998 was between 14.5 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (6%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.