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• Jordan Walker Mouw, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1998)

• Dorothy Clare Wagner (73), North Olmsted, Cuyahoga, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Aleida Braakman (94), Vaassen
• Arie Cornelis van den Hoek (73), Dordrecht
• Christiaan Jacobus Wessel (86), Leiderdorp
• Beatrix Immerzeel (76), Vlaardingen
• Anna Margaretha Hoogeveen (80), Oosterhout
• Catharina Adjuta Adriana van de Sande (66), Voorburg
• Aloijsius Wijnandus Pierik (90), Nijmegen
• Eduard Duco (Eddy) Manson (79), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Antonius Verlaan (84), Roermond, Nederland

• 1989 » G-Eazy, American rapper
• 1990 » Mattias Ekholm, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1991 » Aled Davies, Welsh discus thrower
• 1991 » Cody Eakin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 » Marcus Bettinelli, English footballer, goalkeeper
• 1994 » Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer
• 1994 » Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer
• 1994 » Emily Nicholl, Scottish netball player
• 1994 » Emily Temple Wood, American 2016 Wikipedian of the Year award
• 1999 » Tarjei Sandvik Moe, Norwegian actor

• 1991 » Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
• 1992 » Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese race car driver (b. 1956)
• 1995 » Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
• 1996 » Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (b. 1934)
• 1996 » Joseph Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (b. 1923)
• 2000 » Kurt Schork, American journalist and scholar (b. 1947)
• 2000 » Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
• 2002 » Wallace Markfield, American author (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Rachel Kempson, English actress (b. 1910)

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

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.
• January 19 » Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
• April 1 » Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
• 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.
• September 11 » NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
• December 1 » Heath High School shooting in West Paducah, Kentucky

The temperature on May 24, 1997 was between 5.9 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.