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• Ulrike Bruins, Groenlo, Gelderland, Nederland († 1998)
• Menno Tonckens († 1998)

• Antonia Helena Luijben (87)
• Aagtje Huisman (78), Winsum, Groningen, Nederland
• Claartje van den Berg (70), onbekend
• Coba de Groot (85)
• Antony Cornelis Schipper (90)
• Carolina Catharina Mulders (85), Brunssum, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Maria van den Eijnden (90), Bakel,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Anna Wiersma (65)
• Cornelis Dobber (72)
• Dirk Dirksz Kuijt (80), Katwijk

• 1988 » Patty Mills, Australian basketball player
• 1988 » Rabeh Al-Hussaini, Filipino basketball player
• 1989 » Junior Heffernan, Irish cyclist and triathlete († 2013)
• 1989 » Sebastian Huke, German footballer
• 1990 » Lenka Juríková, Slovak tennis player
• 1991 » Cristian Tello, Spanish footballer
• 1994 » Anton Cooper, New Zealand cross-country cyclist
• 1994 » Joseph Barbato, French footballer
• 1994 » Storm Sanders, Australian tennis player
• 1997 » Sarah Clelland, Scottish footballer

• 1991 » J. D. McDuffie, American race car driver (b. 1938)
• 1994 » Peter Cushing, English actor (b. 1913)
• 1995 » Phil Harris, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1904)
• 1996 » Ambrosio Padilla, Filipino basketball player and politician (b. 1910)
• 1996 » Rafael Kubelík, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1914)
• 2000 » Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer and academic (b. 1916)
• 2001 » Percy Stallard, English cyclist and coach (b. 1909)
• 2002 » Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountaineer (b. 1940)
• 2003 » Armand Borel, Swiss-American mathematician and academic (b. 1923)
• 2003 » Herb Brooks, American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1937)

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. Pieter

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. Lisa
14. Anna
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.
• March 24 » A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.
• May 11 » India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran.
• August 20 » The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
• October 10 » A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
• October 16 » Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
• December 6 » in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez is victorious in presidential elections.

The temperature on August 11, 1998 was between 15.9 °C and 30.2 °C and averaged 22.7 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.