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Born on Saturday February 1, 1997
- Jan Meijer, Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
Died on Saturday February 1, 1997
- Adriaan Praag (91), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Carolina Catharina Flissebaalje (89), Schiedam
- Anne Mae Light (70), Vestal, Broome, New York, Verenigde Staten
- Anna Oldenburger (97)
- Bregitta Cecilia Vetje (90)
- Anna VISSER (82), Kortenhoef,Utrecht,Netherlands
- Albert Kleijnen (71), Wijchen, Gelderland, Nederland
- Anna Oldenburger (97), -
- Arie Verhagen (58), Rijnsburg
- Andrew Robertson Rennie (78), Ayrshire, Scotland
Born on February 1
- 1987 » Austin Jackson, American baseball player
- 1987 » Moises Henriques, Portuguese-Australian cricketer
- 1987 » Ronda Rousey, American mixed martial artist and actress
- 1987 » Sebastian Boenisch, Polish footballer
- 1988 » Brett Anderson, American baseball player
- 1989 » Ricky Pinheiro, Portuguese footballer
- 1991 » Kyle Palmieri, American hockey player
- 1993 » Diego Mella, Italian footballer
- 1994 » Harry Styles, English singer-songwriter
- 1994 » Joe Boyce, Australian rugby league player
Died on February 1
- 1992 » Jean Hamburger, French physician and surgeon (b. 1909)
- 1996 » Ray Crawford, American race car driver, pilot, and businessman (b. 1915)
- 1997 » Herb Caen, American journalist and author (b. 1916)
- 1999 » Paul Mellon, American art collector and philanthropist (b. 1907)
- 2001 » André D'Allemagne, Canadian political scientist and academic (b. 1929)
- 2002 » Aykut Barka, Turkish geologist and academic (b. 1951)
- 2002 » Hildegard Knef, German actress and singer (b. 1925)
- 2003 » Mongo Santamaría, Cuban-American drummer and bandleader (b. 1922)
- 2003 » Space Shuttle Columbia crew
- 2004 » Suha Arın, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1942)
Names that were popular for boys in 1997
- Thomas
- Sander
- Michael
- Kevin
- Jan
- Niels
- Tim
- Bas
- Daan
- Johannes
- Robin
- Max
- Ruben
- Nick
- Jasper
- David
Names that were popular for girls in 1997
- Laura
- Anne
- Amber
- Anna
- Sanne
- Lisa
- Lotte
- Celine
- Michelle
- Demi
- Eline
- Iris
- Naomi
- Kim
- Femke
- Emma
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1997
- 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 15.6 million citizens.
- January 17 » Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
- May 11 » Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
- June 16 » Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.
- July 7 » The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
- September 19 » The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people.
- December 15 » Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 crashes in the desert near Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, killing 85.
Weather February 1, 1997
The temperature on February 1, 1997 was between -1.5 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.