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• Hugo Helsloot, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1998)
• Bart Matthias Lucas, Delft († 1998)
• Benjamin Derek Bartels († 2014)
• Poland († 2003)

• Alberta Runnenburg (83), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Constant Clinckx (79), Leuven
• Bonne Klompstra (52), Sombra Canada
• Bep de Bruin (74)
• Cornelis Antonius Johannes van Opstal (85)
• Charles 'Lowber' Hendricks Jr. (75), Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten
• Emilia Hubertina Johanna Six Dijkstra (100), Breukelen, Stichtse Vecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Berend Bosscher (66), Sumas, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Danta Anna Alida VERMEER (5), Amsterdam
• Eva Stevens (68), Valkenswaard

• 1993 » Chantal Škamlová, Slovak tennis player
• 1993 » Emma Brownlie, Scottish footballer
• 1993 » Jody Fannin, English race car driver
• 1993 » Yannick Carrasco, Belgian footballer
• 1994 » Kenny McEvoy, Irish footballer
• 1994 » Sabina Sharipova, Uzbekistan tennis player
• 1994 » Thomas Minns, English rugby player
• 1995 » Jazz Tevaga, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1996 » Ashton Golding, English rugby league player
• 1996 » Jordan Lilley, English rugby league player

• 1993 » Hervé Villechaize, French-American actor (b. 1943)
• 1995 » Chuck Greenberg, American saxophonist, composer, and producer (b. 1950)
• 1995 » William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)
• 1996 » Joan Clarke, English cryptanalyst and numismatist (b. 1917)
• 1997 » Aldo Rossi, Italian architect, designed the Bonnefanten Museum and Teatro Carlo Felice (b. 1931)
• 1997 » Dharamvir Bharati, Indian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1926)
• 1998 » Elizabeth Kata, Australian author and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1998 » Ernst Jaakson, Estonian diplomat (b. 1905)
• 1999 » Georg Gawliczek, German footballer and manager (b. 1919)
• 2002 » Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian-French pianist and educator (b. 1904)

1. Nick
2. Niels
3. Thomas
4. Daan
5. Robin
6. Tim
7. Jan
8. Max
9. Bas
10. Bram
11. Kevin
12. Dennis
13. Rick
14. Johannes
15. Lars
16. Pieter

1. Laura
2. Sanne
3. Emma
4. Amber
5. Kim
6. Femke
7. Anne
8. Charlotte
9. Anouk
10. Lotte
11. Julia
12. Eva
13. Demi
14. Lisa
15. Anna
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.
• January 23 » Netscape announced Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source.
• 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.
• May 28 » Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
• July 17 » A diplomatic conference adopts the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, establishing a permanent international court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
• October 10 » A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.
• December 8 » Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.

The temperature on September 4, 1998 was between 14.6 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (19%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.