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. 18 November – The Dutch Far Right Nationalist party Centre Party '86 was banned by the Amsterdam court, becoming one of the first parties banned in the Netherlands.
Births
6 January – Merel Freriks, handball player. 23 January Nils Eekhoff, cyclist. 4 February – Luna Bijl, fashion model 6 February – Ide Schelling, cyclist. 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 Katja Stam, beach volleyball player 31 October – Hawijch Elders, violinist 2 December – Sophie Francis, record producer 9 December – Famke Louise, YouTuber 30 December – Jutta Leerdam, speed skater
Deaths
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). 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). 11 May Willy Corsari, Dutch author of detective fiction (b. 1897). 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).
Full date missing Emmy van Deventer, ceramist (b. 1915) Aat de Peijper, industrialist and philatelist Pi Vèriss, songwriter and composer (b. 1916)
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