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• Anna Engelina Heijne (87)
• Bernardo de Sousa Holstein (73), Lisboa
• Andrew Lee Dykshorn (68), South Holland, Cook County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Mus (99), Diemen
• Anje Goossens (76), Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland
• Alice Magdalen Sarah ORMSBY-GORE (42)
• Donald Victor Reginald HOUGHTON (84), Arlesey, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
• Cornelia Gerarda Antonia van Zon (74), Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Delores Nellie DUTSON (75)
• Cyril Duynslager (69), Mount Clemens, Macomb, Michigan (USA)

• 1985 » Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model
• 1985 » Rooney Mara, American actress
• 1986 » Romain Grosjean, French race car driver
• 1988 » Takahiro Moriuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1989 » Avi Kaplan, singer and songwriter
• 1989 » Paraskevi Papachristou, Greek triple jumper
• 1990 » Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer
• 1992 » Lachlan Maranta, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1994 » Alanna Goldie, Canadian fencer
• 1996 » Lorna Fitzgerald, British actress

• 1987 » Cecil Harmsworth King, English publisher (b. 1901)
• 1987 » Dick Shawn, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1988 » Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-American sculptor and educator (b. 1900)
• 1990 » Ralph Abernathy, American minister and activist (b. 1936)
• 1993 » Turgut Özal, Turkish engineer and politician, 8th president of Turkey (b. 1927)
• 1994 » Roger Wolcott Sperry, American psychologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1995 » Frank E. Resnik, American sergeant and businessman (b. 1928)
• 1996 » Piet Hein, Danish poet and mathematician (b. 1905)
• 1997 » Chaim Herzog, Israeli general, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of Israel (b. 1918)
• 1998 » Linda McCartney, American photographer, activist, and musician (b. 1941)

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. Johannes
14. Bart
15. Patrick
16. Hendrik

1. Laura
2. Lisa
3. Anna
4. Anne
5. Michelle
6. Emma
7. Iris
8. Melissa
9. Lisanne
10. Sanne
11. Lotte
12. Nathalie
13. Amber
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.
• 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.
• May 1 » Croatian War of Independence: Croatian forces launch Operation Flash.
• May 13 » Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
• May 28 » The 7.0 M_w  Neftegorsk earthquake shook the former Russian settlement of Neftegorsk with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Total damage was $64.1–300million, with 1,989 deaths and 750 injured. The settlement was not rebuilt.
• June 5 » The Bose–Einstein condensate is first created.
• June 8 » Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.

The temperature on April 17, 1995 was between 6.8 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 7.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.