1998 in the Netherlands

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, You Tuber
 * 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)