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• Levenloos den Brok, Hoensbroek, Limburg, Nederland

• Antonius Aloijsius Maria Weber (84)
• Cornelia Johanna (Cora) de Ruijter (90), Vancouver, Canada
• Anna Elisabeth Virginie Baeten (87), Hasselt
• Cornelia Maria Warmerdam (82), Wijk aan Zee
• Donald Koenen (50), Yakima, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Ebeltje de Bruin (85)
• Anna (Ann) BUIKEMA (79), Michigan U.S.A
• Elisabeth Maria van Heulen (64), Dordrecht
• Edward Franklin Runion (73), Frederick Co.Maryland
• Elisabeth Maria(16c.) van Heulen (64)

• 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. Ruben
12. Sander
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. Ilse
12. Maria
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.
• January 7 » The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
• February 13 » The last hockey game is played in Maple Leaf Gardens: the Toronto Maple Leafs lose 6–2 to the Chicago Blackhawks.
• March 12 » Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
• May 29 » Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
• October 12 » The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.
• December 18 » NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.

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.