1998 in the Netherlands

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Decades:

Incumbents

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.

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
- Willy Corsari, Dutch author of detective fiction (b. 1897).^[6]
- 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).^[7]

^ "Merel Freriks". hbf-info.de. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
^ "Nils Eekhoff". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
^ "Ide Schelling". procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ van Boven, Erica (2003). "Schrijven als Beroep. Willy Corsari (1897-1998). Een broodschrijfster met literaire passie" [Writing as a Profession. Willy Corsari (1897-1998). A bread writer with a literary passion]. Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis (in Dutch). 23: 184.
^ 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.

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