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• Margo SEGERS, Aalst,9300,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 2017)
• Wim Haring, Zwolle, Overijssel, Netherlands

• Abraham Den Ouden (73)
• Albertus Jan Renssen (71)
• Bernardina Wilhelmina Maria Dietz (91), Den Haag
• Adriana Maria Cornelis (75), Veldhoven
• Adriana Maria Hereijgers (95)
• Bram de Graaf (93), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonia Cornelia van Dijk (89), Liessel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Pasman (88)
• Anna Maria Kolen (83), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Delbridge Launder Jr** (88), Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut

• 1990 » İshak Doğan, Turkish footballer
• 1991 » Alexa Bliss, American bodybuilder and wrestler
• 1991 » Alice Barlow, English actress
• 1991 » Hansika Motwani, Indian actress
• 1993 » Dipa Karmakar, Indian gymnast
• 1993 » Jun.Q, South Korean singer and actor
• 1994 » Kelli Hubly, American soccer player
• 1995 » Eli Apple, American football player
• 1996 » Sanya Lopez, Filipino actress and model
• 1999 » Deniss Vasiļjevs, Latvian figure skater

• 1995 » Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
• 1996 » Frank Whittle, English soldier and engineer, invented the jet engine (b. 1907)
• 1999 » Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian journalist and politician (b. 1910)
• 2000 » John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
• 2000 » Nicholas Markowitz, American murder victim (b. 1984)
• 2002 » Paul Samson, English guitarist (b. 1953)
• 2003 » Gregory Hines, American actor, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1946)
• 2003 » Jacques Deray, French director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 2003 » R. Sivagurunathan, Sri Lankan lawyer, journalist, and academic (b. 1931)
• 2003 » Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (b. 1945)

• 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 25 » During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
• February 20 » American figure skater Tara Lipinski, at the age of 15, becomes the youngest Olympic figure skating gold-medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
• May 12 » Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto.
• November 26 » Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
• December 8 » Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
• December 31 » The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.

The temperature on August 9, 1998 was between 14.1 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.