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1998 In The Netherlands
Events in the year 1998 in the Netherlands. Incumbents * List of rulers of the Netherlands, Monarch: Beatrix of the Netherlands, Beatrix * List of Prime Ministers of the Netherlands, 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 Oct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands
) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherlands , established_title2 = Act of Abjuration , established_date2 = 26 July 1581 , established_title3 = Peace of Münster , established_date3 = 30 January 1648 , established_title4 = Kingdom established , established_date4 = 16 March 1815 , established_title5 = Liberation Day (Netherlands), Liberation Day , established_date5 = 5 May 1945 , established_title6 = Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Kingdom Charter , established_date6 = 15 December 1954 , established_title7 = Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles, Caribbean reorganisation , established_date7 = 10 October 2010 , official_languages = Dutch language, Dutch , languages_type = Regional languages , languages_sub = yes , languages = , languages2_type = Reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasmin Wijnaldum
Yasmin Wijnaldum (born July 10, 1998) is a Dutch fashion model. She is known for her confident runway walk. Early life Wijnaldum was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her father is from Suriname, and her mother from the Netherlands. She was born and raised in Amsterdam and currently resides in New York City, having moved there when she was 17 years old. She has an older brother and an older sister. She is dating Thomas Doherty since 2021. Career Wijnaldum made her modeling debut during the 2014 Elite Model Look competition, where she represented the Netherlands during the world final and won a contract with Elite Model Management's Amsterdam branch. After signing to Elite Worldwide and The Society, Wijnaldum made her runway debut at the Jean-Paul Gaultier Haute Couture F/W 15 show, and walked exclusively for Prada during the S/S 16 show season, where she subsequently booked the S/S 16 campaign alongside Sasha Pivovarova and Natalia Vodianova. Her first magazine cover was for ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Brongersma
Edward Brongersma (31 August 1911 in Haarlem, Netherlands – 22 April 1998 in Bloemendaal/Overveen, Netherlands) was a Dutch politician and doctor of law. For a number of years he was a member of the Dutch Senate for the Labour Party, and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He was primarily known for pedophilia advocacy and as an advocate of more lax legislation on public morality. Early life Brongersma was born in Haarlem as the son of an ophthalmologist. He studied law at the University of Amsterdam (1931–1935) and obtained his degree in 1935. From 1935 to 1937 he was associated with a law firm in Haarlem while working on his doctoral dissertation on the Portuguese constitution of 1933 and Portuguese corporatism of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, whom he much admired at the time. In 1940 he received his Doctor of Law degree ''cum laude'' from the Catholic University of Nijmegen. His dissertation, on the subject of the corporative state in Portugal, was published as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerrit Jan Van Ingen Schenau
Gerrit Jan van Ingen Schenau (13 September 1944, Leiden – 2 April 1998, Weteringbrug) was a Dutch biomechanist. He made large contributions to the field of biomechanics, particularly muscle coordination, energetics of movement, and the functions of biarticular muscles. He focused on speed skating in particular, and played a significant part in the invention of the clap skate The clap skate (also called clapper skates, clapskates, slap skates, slapskates, from Dutch language, Dutch ) is a type of ice skate used in speed skating. Unlike in traditional skates where the blade is rigidly fixed to the boot, clap skates .... He died of cancer in 1998. References 1944 births 1998 deaths 20th-century Dutch biologists 20th-century Dutch physicists People from Leiden Deaths from cancer in the Netherlands {{Physicist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gien De Kock
Gien de Kock (21 February 1908 – 14 February 1998) was a Dutch athlete. She competed in the women's javelin throw at the 1936 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1908 births 1998 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Dutch female javelin throwers Olympic athletes for the Netherlands Athletes from Amsterdam 20th-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violette Cornelius
Violette Cornelius (17 March 1919, Batavia, Dutch East Indies – 23 January 1998, Saint-Maximin, France) was a Dutch photographer and resistance fighter during World War II. During the war, she joined an artist's resistance group and contributed to clandestine magazines. After the war, she specialized in architectural photography. She collaborated on many business photo books, including one about Hoogovens IJmuiden with Cas Oorthuys and others. In 1957 she made a book about the city of Weesp together with the author Jan Elburg. She then went, often with colleague Sean Wellesley Miller, capturing the migration to urban areas in developing countries. Later, she published reportages about Iraq, India, Peru, Yemen, and some countries in Africa. She worked with Ata Kandó Ata Kandó (born Etelka Görög; 17 September 1913 – 14 September 2017) was a Hungarian-born Dutch photographer. Beginning her photography practice in the 1930s with children's photography, Kandó later wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Lagarde
Alfred Lagarde (2 April 1948 – 1 January 1998) was a Dutch radio personality. Born in Groningen, Lagarde presented the hard rock radio program ''Betonuur'' from 1974 to 1979. Lagarde was a great proponent of hard rock and heavy metal; he also produced the first single of Dutch-language hard rock act Vandale, in 1979. Lagarde performed the original voice of Telly on ''Sesamstraat'', the Dutch co-production of ''Sesame Street ''Sesame Street'' is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop until June 2000) ...''. After a few brief appearances, Telly became a main character in the late 1980s. His Dutch name is Teevee Monster, or simply Teevee ("tay-vay"). When Lagarde died, Fred Meijer became the new dubbing voice of Telly. References External links Site dedicated to Alfred Lagarde 1948 births 1998 de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jutta Leerdam
Jutta Leerdam (born 30 December 1998) is a Dutch speed skater specializing in the sprint events. Career Leerdam became the junior world champion at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Helsinki, Finland. The following year, at the 2018 Championships in Salt Lake City, United States, she finished second behind compatriot Joy Beune. During the 2017–18 season, she won the ISU Junior World Cup competition in the 1000m and 1500m events. She also became the Dutch junior sprint champion. In 2018, she turned professional and became a member of Team IKO. Personal life Leerdam was in a relationship with Dutch speed skater Koen Verweij Koen Verweij (; born 26 August 1990) is a former Dutch speed skater and inline speed skater. At the end of the skating season 2008–09 he made a transfer from the Jong Oranje team of the national skating union ( KNSB) to the commercial team of T ... beginning in 2017. On 1 August 2022, Leerdam announced on her Instagram page that they had broken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Famke Louise
Famke Jantina Louise Meijer (born 9 December 1998), better known as Famke Louise, is a Dutch YouTuber, model and singer from Amsterdam. She took part in the 19th season of the Dutch television series ''Expeditie Robinson''. Life and career Meijer was born in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. In February 2016, Meijer started her own YouTube channel under her nickname Famke Louise. After she became known, she began using Famke Louise as her stage name. At first Meijer made prank videos with several friends; several of her videos were criticized for being fake. Because of this criticism Meijer decided to delete all her previous videos. She then began making videos about beauty, fashion and started vlogging. In 2017 she appeared in the Dutch television series '' Models in Paris: Het Echte Leven'', where she was guided into the life of modelling; after the series ended, Meijer took part in photo-shoots with various Dutch magazines. At the end of 2017, Meijer started working on her sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Francis
Sophie Bongers (born ), better known by her stage name Sophie Francis, is a Dutch record producer, DJ and musician. Biography Early life Sophie was born on 2 December 1998 in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands but she used to live in St Francis Bay, South Africa, for a big part of her childhood. She moved to Sint-Oedenrode, Netherlands later with her parents. From an early age, she had an interest in music. By the age of 9, she started playing piano and singing along to many songs. At the age of 14, she had to do a school project at the International School of Eindhoven (ISE) where she should develop a new skill during 9 months, and being so much into the music, she got inspired to do something with it for this project. Besides that, she also wanted to do something with people. When doing research she found a video of a DJ playing a live set who had a great connection with the crowd. As she loved the vibe and was amazed by how one person can transfer his energy to an entire crowd with m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawijch Elders
Hawijch Elders is a Dutch violinist born on 31 October 1998. Biography Elders started violin lessons at the age of six at Mea Fontijn, and from 2011-2016 she received violin lessons and chamber music lessons from Benzion Shamir. She has been following her violin training with Ilya Grubert at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam since 2016, where she completed the Bachelor of Music (2020) and Master of Music (2022) degree programmes with highest distinction. Since September 2022, she is Artist in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, where she studies with Augustin Dumay. She received many prizes and awards at national and international violin competitions. In May 2023, Hawijch Elders won the first prize at the 8th International Violin Competition Henri Marteau, with a performance of Paganini's first violin concerto with the Hofer Symphoniker conducted by Christoph-Mathias Mueller, and she received special awards for the interpretation of works by Johann Sebastian Bach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |