About the day » Thursday August 17, 1995Calender converter

• Tim Schilling
• Anne Niewenhuis († 1996)
• Eliza Weerkamp, Enschede Stad, Overijssel, Nederland († 1995)

• Albertje Timmerman (82), Zuidlaren
• Gary John de Haan (88), Riverside County, California
• Antonio Rodrigues de Camargo (73), Americana, São Paulo, Brasil
• Albertje Timmerman (82), Zuidlaren, Drenthe, Nederland
• Edith Oechies (62), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Geertruida Kool (84), IJsselstein
• Eliza Weerkamp (0), Enschede Stad, Overijssel, Nederland
• Edmund Richard Ashworth-Bartels DNA998v - sample last record data set- chk curator (78), London, Brent, England, United-Kingdom
• Cornelia Florina van 't Hoenderdal (90)
• Arnoldus Petrus van de Voort (81), Bladel

• 1992 » Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player († 2013)
• 1992 » Chanel Mata'utia, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 » Paige, English wrestler
• 1993 » Ederson Moraes, Brazilian footballer
• 1993 » Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer
• 1994 » Phoebe Bridgers, American singer/songwriter
• 1995 » Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1995 » Gracie Gold, American figure skater
• 1996 » Jake Virtanen, Canadian ice hockey player
• 2000 » Lil Pump, American rapper and songwriter

• 1988 » Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani general and politician, 6th President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
• 1990 » Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (b. 1918)
• 1993 » Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
• 1994 » Jack Sharkey, American boxer and referee (b. 1902)
• 1994 » Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and businessman (b. 1901)
• 1995 » Howard E. Koch, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1995 » Ted Whitten, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1933)
• 1998 » Tadeusz Ślusarski, Polish pole vaulter (b. 1950)
• 1998 » Władysław Komar, Polish shot putter and actor (b. 1940)
• 2000 » Jack Walker, English businessman (b. 1929)

1. Thomas
2. Martijn
3. Jan
4. Kevin
5. Tom
6. Dennis
7. Tim
8. Jeroen
9. Sander
10. Niels
11. Robin
12. Mark
13. Bart
14. Patrick
15. Johannes
16. Hendrik

1. Laura
2. Lisa
3. Anna
4. Anne
5. Michelle
6. Emma
7. Iris
8. Sanne
9. Lisanne
10. Melissa
11. Amber
12. Lotte
13. Nathalie
14. Nicole
15. Jessica
16. Charlotte

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
• January 1 » The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
• February 3 » Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
• February 21 » Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
• March 2 » Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
• March 25 » WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
• December 21 » The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.

The temperature on August 17, 1995 was between 16.5 °C and 27.5 °C and averaged 21.6 °C. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (79%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.