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• Leonie Marina (Nina) de Waard, Almere
• Eline Bolsius, Tilburg

• Cornelis Martinus Hendrikus Oerlemans (74), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Daniel Petrus Jacobus Botes (82), Pretoria, South Africa
• Anna Hoving (94), Slochteren, Siddeburen
• Charles Lewis Smith Sr. (61), Rockland, Knox, Maine, Verenigde Staten
• Dirk Rombout (80), Geldermalsen
• Dirk van der Plas (75), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Faber (90)
• Aloysius Franciscus Jochems (72), Edegem, 2650, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Arno Moonen (51), Waalwijk,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aagje VOOGD (69)

• 1987 » Blake Lively, American model and actress
• 1987 » Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
• 1987 » Velimir Jovanović, Serbian footballer
• 1988 » Angela Park, Brazilian-American golfer
• 1989 » Hiram Mier, Mexican footballer
• 1990 » Max Muncy, American baseball player
• 1992 » Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer and actress
• 1992 » Ricardo Rodriguez, Swiss footballer
• 1994 » Edmunds Augstkalns, Latvian ice hockey player
• 1998 » China Anne McClain, American actress and singer

• 1995 » Doug Stegmeyer, American bass player and producer (b. 1951)
• 1998 » Lewis F. Powell, Jr., American lawyer and Supreme Court justice (b. 1907)
• 1999 » Rob Fisher, English keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1956)
• 2000 » Allen Woody, American bass player and songwriter (b. 1955)
• 2000 » Carl Barks, American author and illustrator (b. 1901)
• 2000 » Frederick C. Bock, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
• 2000 » Jack Nitzsche, American pianist, composer, and producer (b. 1937)
• 2001 » Üzeyir Garih, Turkish engineer and businessman, co-founded Alarko Holding (b. 1929)
• 2001 » Aaliyah, American singer and actress (b. 1979)
• 2001 » Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938)

• 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.
• June 11 » Compaq Computer pays US$9billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.
• July 15 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine.
• August 8 » Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan is raided by Taliban leading to the deaths of ten Iranian diplomats and a journalist.
• August 26 » The first flight of the Air Force Delta III ends in disaster 75 seconds after liftoff resulting in the loss of the Galaxy X satellite.
• October 29 » ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the United States is inaugurated with the launch of the STS-95 space shuttle mission.
• 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.

The temperature on August 25, 1998 was between 10.2 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.