1998 in the Netherlands

Year in the Netherlands:

Other years

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Events in the year 1998 in the Netherlands.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Beatrix
• Prime Minister: Wim Kok

Events

• 6 May – The 1998 Dutch general election
• 4 to 11 October – The 1998 UCI Road World Championships took place in Valkenburg aan de Geul.

Births

Nils Eekhoff

• 6 January – Merel Freriks, handball player.[1]
• 23 January Nils Eekhoff, cyclist .[2]
• 4 February – Luna Bijl, fashion model
• 6 February – Ide Schelling, cyclist.[3]
• 13 March – Jay-Roy Grot, footballer
• 18 June – Sarah Nauta, singer and actress
• 8 July – Koen Huntelaar, footballer
• 10 July – Yasmin Wijnaldum, fashion model
• 4 September – Geert Nentjes, darts player
• 3 October – Pleun Bierbooms, singer
• 31 October – Hawijch Elders, violinist
• 2 December – Sophie Francis, record producer
• 9 December – Famke Louise, You Tuber
• 30 December – Jutta Leerdam, speed skater

Deaths

Jopie Selbach

• 1 January – Alfred Lagarde, voice actor (b. 1948)
• 23 January – Violette Cornelius, photographer and resistance fighter (b. 1919)
• 14 February – Gien de Kock, athlete (b. 1908).[4]
• 2 April – Gerrit Jan van Ingen Schenau, biomechanist (b. 1944)
• 22 April – Edward Brongersma, politician (b. 1911)
• 30 April – Jopie Selbach, freestyle swimmer (b. 1918).[5]
• 11 May – Hans van Zon, serial killer (b. 1941)
• 27 June – Alfred Kossmann, poet (b. 1922)
• 7 October – Cees de Vreugd, butcher, strongman and powerlifter (b. 1952)
• 6 November – Johfra Bosschart, artist (b. 1919)
• 29 November – Maus Gatsonides, rally driver and inventor (b. 1911)
• 13 December – Willem den Toom, politician (b. 1911)
• 24 December – Daan Kagchelland, sailor (b. 1914).[6]

Full date missing

• Emmy van Deventer, ceramist (b. 1915)
• Aat de Peijper, industrialist and philatelist
• Pi Vèriss, songwriter and composer (b. 1916)

References

1. "Merel Freriks". hbf-info.de. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
2. "Nils Eekhoff". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
3. "Ide Schelling". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
4. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Gien de Kock". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
5. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jopie Selbach". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
6. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Daan Kagchelland". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2019.