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• Anouk Adelerhof († 1997)
• Hendrik Jan Marks, Zutphen (De Hoven)
• Amber Lisa van Vliet, Rotterdam

• Aldegonda Gram (90)
• Adam Pancratius Adrianus van der Plas (73), Heemstede
• Catharina J.P. GARTTENER (74), Elden, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• jaspe de boer (62), liossens
• Antonius Wagenaar (93), Medemblik, North Holland, Netherlands
• Aaltje van Oenen (97), Dalfsen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adam Pancratius Adrianus (Dammes) van der Plas (73), Heemstede
• Cornelis Ouwehand (107), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Constant Alexander Hope Loudon (90), Hilversum
• Carmen Case Mannion (90), Roseville, Placer, California, United States

• 1990 » Maica García Godoy, Spanish water polo player
• 1990 » Paolo Campinoti, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Patrick Lambie, South African rugby player
• 1990 » Ronald González Tabilo, Chilean footballer
• 1990 » Saki Kumagai, Japanese footballer
• 1991 » Brenda Asnicar, Argentine actress
• 1992 » Keerthy Suresh, Indian actress
• 1992 » Sam Concepcion, Filipino musician and dancer
• 1993 » Kenneth Omeruo, Nigerian footballer
• 2001 » Thomas Strudwick, British motorcycle road racer

• 1993 » Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963)
• 1996 » Chris Acland, English musician & drummer of Lush (b. 1966)
• 1997 » Larry Jennings, American magician and author (b. 1933)
• 1998 » Hakim Said, Pakistani scholar and politician, 20th Governor of Sindh (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Joan Hickson, English actress (b. 1906)
• 1999 » Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician and physicist (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1964)
• 2000 » Leo Nomellini, Italian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1924)
• 2001 » Jay Livingston, American singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
• 2001 » Micheline Ostermeyer, French shot putter, discus thrower, and pianist (b. 1922)

• 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 17 » Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
• February 11 » Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
• March 13 » The Missionaries of Charity choose Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as their leader.
• April 13 » Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
• August 29 » Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.
• December 1 » In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacked the CPI (ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.

The temperature on October 17, 1997 was between 9.3 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.