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• Levenloos den Brok, Hoensbroek, Limburg, Nederland

• Ebeltje de Bruin (85)
• Egbert Haarsma (85), Veenwouden
• Anna Elisabeth Virginie Baeten (87), Hasselt
• Carl Diederich Heitlager (61), Waterland, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Catharina Koster (69)
• Donald Koenen (50), Yakima, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Bastiaan den Hollander (83), Fijnaart
• Anna Johanna Wilhelmina Hof (58), Duiven Gelderland Nederland
• Albert Clarence Aardsma (71), Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Baeten (87), Hasselt

• 1985 » J. Cole, American singer
• 1986 » Asad Shafiq, Pakistani cricketer
• 1986 » Jessica Ennis-Hill, English heptathlete and hurdler
• 1986 » Nathan Outteridge, Australian sailor
• 1988 » Paul Henry, English footballer
• 1988 » Seiya Sanada, Japanese wrestler
• 1989 » Siem de Jong, Dutch footballer
• 1991 » Carl Klingberg, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1992 » Sergio Araujo, Argentinian footballer
• 1998 » Ariel Winter, American actress

• 1996 » Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist and author (b. 1911)
• 1996 » Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator, co-created Superman (b. 1914)
• 1996 » Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940)
• 1998 » Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1938)
• 1999 » Valery Gavrilin, Russian composer (b. 1939)
• 2001 » Ranko Marinković, Croatian author and playwright (b. 1913)
• 2002 » Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 2002 » Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist (b. 1946)
• 2002 » Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian cyclist and soldier (b. 1913)
• 2003 » Mieke Pullen, Dutch runner (b. 1957)

1. Thomas
2. Max
3. Niels
4. Bram
5. Robin
6. Jan
7. Tim
8. Kevin
9. Nick
10. Lars
11. Sander
12. Ruben
13. Jesse
14. Matthijs
15. Rick
16. Tom

1. Sanne
2. Emma
3. Julia
4. Anna
5. Lisa
6. Laura
7. Lotte
8. Sophie
9. Anne
10. Amber
11. Maria
12. Ilse
13. Kim
14. Fleur
15. Anouk
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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.8 million citizens.
• May 24 » The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
• July 31 » Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon's surface.
• August 15 » Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
• September 30 » The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.
• November 11 » The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
• November 26 » The 7.5 M_w  Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured.

The temperature on January 28, 1999 was between 0.8 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.