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• Annigje Cornelia Oskamp (93), Bodegraven
• Addo Hindrik Bots (76), Wedde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Alida Geertruida Groot (75), Heiloo
• Aart Bos (85)
• Antonius van Lubeek (73), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia Sterrenburg (79), Leerbroek
• Arnoldus Petrus Vos (67), Oss
• Antonius Michiel van Dun (71), Emmeloord
• Arend Gunnink (84)
• Albert Gerrit Slaghuis (83), Hengelo

• 1989 » Shinji Kagawa, Japanese footballer
• 1990 » Hozier, Irish singer-songwriter and musician
• 1990 » Saina Nehwal, Indian badminton player
• 1991 » Jack De Belin, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 » John Boyega, English actor
• 1992 » Patrick Cantlay, American golfer
• 1993 » Matteo Bianchetti, Italian footballer
• 1994 » Dean Britt, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Ashley Taylor, Australian rugby league player
• 1997 » Katie Ledecky, American swimmer

• 1990 » Capucine, French model and actress (b. 1928)
• 1992 » Grace Stafford, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1994 » Mai Zetterling, Swedish-English actress and director (b. 1925)
• 1996 » René Clément, French director and screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Terry Stafford, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 1997 » Jermaine Stewart, American singer-songwriter and dancer (b. 1957)
• 1999 » Ernest Gold, Austrian-American composer (b. 1921)
• 1999 » Jean Pierre-Bloch, French activist (b. 1905)
• 2002 » Rosetta LeNoire, American actress and producer (b. 1911)

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. Patrick
14. Bart
15. Johannes
16. Hendrik

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

• 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 World Trade Organization comes into being.
• March 14 » Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
• March 22 » Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
• March 25 » WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
• July 21 » Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
• October 15 » Saddam Hussein is reelected president of Iraq through a referendum.

The temperature on March 17, 1995 was between 4.2 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 9.4 mm of rain during 8.8 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.