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• Berber BOTMA († 1991)

• Arthur Kenneth WISE (77), Low Head, Tasmania, Australia
• Cornelia Keij (86), Halsteren
• Anna Verburg (98), Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Alexander Frederik Eduard Christiaan van Sleeswijk-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg Koning van Noorwegen (87), Oslo
• Adrianus Petrus van de Wiel (81), Vlijmen
• Annie Kroon (90), Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa
• Arie Visser (77), Zeist
• Aagje KOERTS (69), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Sophia Quasten (97), Bergen op Zoom
• Calvin Henery Blanchard (64)

• 1988 » Andrea Antonelli, Italian motorcycle racer († 2013)
• 1988 » Will Genia, Australian rugby player
• 1989 » Kelly Marie Tran, American actress
• 1989 » Taylor Jordan, American baseball player
• 1990 » Santiago Tréllez, Colombian footballer
• 1991 » Alise Post, American BMX rider
• 1991 » Esapekka Lappi, Finnish Rally Driver
• 1991 » Slade Griffin, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Trevor Bauer, American baseball player
• 1993 » Frankie Cocozza, British singer

• 1987 » Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1988 » Percy Qoboza, South African journalist and author (b. 1938)
• 1991 » Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
• 1992 » Frank Pullen, English soldier and businessman (b. 1915)
• 1993 » Albert Hourani, English-Lebanese historian and academic (b. 1915)
• 1994 » Helen Stephens, American runner, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1918)
• 1994 » Yevgeni Ivanov, Russian spy (b. 1926)
• 1996 » Barbara Jordan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1936)
• 1996 » Sylvia Lawler, English geneticist (b. 1922))
• 1997 » Bert Kelly, Australian farmer and politician, 20th Australian Minister for the Navy (b. 1912)

1. Thomas
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Kevin
5. Patrick
6. Michael
7. Dennis
8. Martijn
9. Mark
10. Tim
11. Cornelis
12. Rick
13. Niels
14. Robin
15. Robert
16. Tom

1. Laura
2. Lisa
3. Anne
4. Maria
5. Joyce
6. Anna
7. Jessica
8. Michelle
9. Amy
10. Stephanie
11. Kim
12. Nicole
13. Sarah
14. Melissa
15. Esther
16. Johanna

• 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.0 million citizens.
• April 26 » 55 tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.
• May 18 » Northern Somalia declares independence from the rest of Somalia as the Republic of Somaliland but is not recognized by the international community.
• July 1 » Cold War: The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
• August 29 » Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party.
• October 14 » Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• December 31 » All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date five days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.

The temperature on January 17, 1991 was between -3.0 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.