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

• 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
• 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
• 23 January – Violette Cornelius, photographer and resistance fighter
• 14 February – Gien de Kock, athlete.
• 2 April – Gerrit Jan van Ingen Schenau, biomechanist
• 22 April – Edward Brongersma, politician
• 30 April – Jopie Selbach, freestyle swimmer.
• 11 May – Hans van Zon, serial killer
• 27 June – Alfred Kossmann, poet
• 7 October – Cees de Vreugd, butcher, strongman and powerlifter
• 6 November – Johfra Bosschart, artist
• 29 November – Maus Gatsonides, rally driver and inventor
• 13 December – Willem den Toom, politician
• 24 December – Daan Kagchelland, sailor.

  Full date missing

• Emmy van Deventer, ceramist
• Aat de Peijper, industrialist and philatelist
• Pi Vèriss, songwriter and composer