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• Willem Everardus Renatus Feijen, Veghel
• Niels van ROSMALEN, zaltbommel
• Wendy van der Horst, Zegge, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Aleida Gerharda Maria Löverink (59), Winterswijk
• Eveline Duret (88), Wijhe
• Esta Almyra Hendershot (82), Frick Hospital, Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania
• Adriaan Nieuwkoop (67)
• Elisabeth Maria Roozendaal (66), Schoorl, Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Derkjen MANDEMAKER (87), Apeldoorn, Gemeente Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Roozendaal (66), Schoorl (gem. Bergen, NH)
• Emma Everdina Bruin (65), Den Haag
• Charles Foster AFOS01.CHA05RT (70), n/k
• Blanch Irene Reynolds (93), Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, Verenigde Staten

• 1989 » Blake Griffin, American basketball player
• 1989 » Jung So-min, South Korean actress
• 1990 » Andre Young, American basketball player
• 1991 » Reggie Bullock, American basketball player
• 1991 » Wolfgang Van Halen, American bassist
• 1993 » George Ford, English rugby union player
• 1993 » Marine Lorphelin, Miss France
• 1994 » Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player
• 1995 » Inga Janulevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater
• 1997 » Florian Neuhaus, German football player

• 1992 » Yves Rocard, French physicist and engineer (b. 1903)
• 1994 » Eric Show, American baseball player (b. 1956)
• 1998 » Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1998 » Esther Bubley, American photographer (b. 1921)
• 1999 » Gratien Gélinas, Canadian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1909)
• 2000 » Carlos Velázquez, Puerto Rican pitcher (b. 1948)
• 2000 » Michael Starr, Canadian judge and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of Labour (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Pavel Prudnikau, Belarusian poet and author (b. 1911)
• 2000 » Thomas Ferebee, American colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943)

1. Thomas
2. Sander
3. Michael
4. Jan
5. Kevin
6. Niels
7. Tim
8. Bas
9. Robin
10. Daan
11. Johannes
12. Max
13. Ruben
14. David
15. Nick
16. Jasper

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2. Anne
3. Amber
4. Anna
5. Sanne
6. Lisa
7. Lotte
8. Michelle
9. Celine
10. Demi
11. Eline
12. Kim
13. Iris
14. Naomi
15. Femke
16. Emma

• 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.
• February 4 » En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
• April 6 » In Greene County, Tennessee, the Lillelid murders occurs when a group of young people abduct and kidnap a religious family before shooting them dead on a rural suburban road.
• July 20 » The fully restored USSConstitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
• August 10 » Sixteen people are killed when Formosa Airlines Flight 7601 crashes near Beigan Airport in the Matsu Islands of Taiwan.
• November 17 » In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre.
• November 27 » Twenty-five people are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.

The temperature on March 16, 1997 was between 8.1 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.