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• Bjorn Scholten († 1998)
• Evan Dale Zevenbergen († 1998)
• Kim Hobers, Emmen

• Arend LANGBROEK Jzn (81), Middelharnis, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH
• Bert Rutten (72), Helenaveen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Griffioen (80), Andijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Jonker (96), ........
• Bertus Kos (83), Den Helder
• Allen Dale van Roekel (47), Sheldon, O'Brien County, Iowa
• Apolonia Johanna van Rooijen (71), Domburg, Walcheren, NL
• Adam Cornelisz. van der Mark (84)
• Cornelia Assink (82), Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands
• * Jacomina van den Burg (69)

• 1989 » Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1989 » Tomasz Kaczor, Polish sprint canoeist
• 1990 » Hikmet Balioğlu, Turkish footballer
• 1990 » Siim Tenno, Estonian footballer
• 1991 » Izet Hajrović, Bosnian footballer
• 1991 » Thiago Cardoso, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Cole Sprouse, American actor
• 1992 » Daniele Garozzo, Italian fencer
• 1992 » Dylan Sprouse, American actor
• 1995 » Bruna Marquezine, Brazilian actress

• 1992 » Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese author (b. 1909)
• 1996 » Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, author, and television host (b. 1936)
• 1997 » Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian; holds records for the world's substantiated longest-lived person (b. 1875)
• 1998 » Yury Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)
• 1999 » Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)
• 2003 » Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Hossein Panahi (Persian: حسین پناهی), Iranian actor and poet (b. 1956)
• 2004 » Mary Sherman Morgan, American chemist and engineer (b. 1921)
• 2005 » Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist and theorist (b. 1932)
• 2005 » Iván Szabó, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Finance of Hungary (b. 1934)

• 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 14 » An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which killed 120.
• March 24 » Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
• May 5 » A Peruvian Air Force Boeing 737 operating for Occidental Petroleum crashes on approach to Alférez FAP Alfredo Vladimir Sara Bauer Airport in Andoas, Peru, killing 75 people.
• May 6 » Kerry Wood strikes out 20 Houston Astros to tie the major league record held by Roger Clemens. He threw a one-hitter and did not walk a batter in his fifth career start.
• August 20 » The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
• October 29 » In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities.

The temperature on August 4, 1998 was between 14.5 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.