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• Thars Jasper Labee, Oosterhout
• Stefan Heinrich Hackling, Papenburg († 2010)

• Cornelis Schipperen (89), Hoeven
• Adriana Pieternella Cornelia Barendregt (93), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Cornelis Maria (Kees) van Terheijden (79), Bergen op Zoom, Nederland
• Berendine Jantine Nijhuis (96)
• Cornelius de Vries (76), Sioux County, Iowa
• Georges Arpin (75), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• Cornelis Hendrikus Heijnen (82), Roosendaal
• Adriana Johanna Moquette (86), Almelo
• Emka Geziena van Iddekinge (79), Dalfsen
• Anna Deurloo (80), Tholen gem. Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland NED

• 1991 » Gregg Wylde, Scottish footballer
• 1992 » Kyrie Irving, Australian-American basketball player
• 1992 » Tolga Ciğerci, German-Turkish footballer
• 1993 » Aytaç Kara, Turkish footballer
• 1993 » Kyle Lovett, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 » Nick Powell, English footballer
• 1995 » Jan Lisiecki, Canadian pianist
• 1995 » Kevin Kauber, Estonian footballer
• 1995 » Ozan Tufan, Turkish footballer
• 1996 » Alexander Albon, Thai-British race car driver

• 1992 » Friedrich Hayek, Austrian-German economist, philosopher, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1994 » Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (b. 1921)
• 1994 » Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican economist and politician (b. 1950)
• 1995 » Davie Cooper, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1956)
• 1999 » Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan judge and politician, Vice President of Paraguay (b. 1932)
• 1999 » Osmond Borradaile, Canadian director and cinematographer (b. 1898)
• 2001 » David McTaggart, Canadian badminton player and environmentalist (b. 1932)
• 2001 » Margaret Jones, British archaeologist (b. 1916)
• 2001 » Robert Laxalt, American author (b. 1923)
• 2001 » Rowland Evans, American journalist (b. 1921)

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

1. Laura
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.
• June 2 » In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died. He was executed four years later.
• June 13 » A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• July 10 » In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
• August 7 » Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• August 31 » Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
• October 27 » The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

The temperature on March 23, 1997 was between 5.1 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.