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• Christina Johanna ter Pelle (86), Enschede
• Evert Willem Koning (72)
• Adriana Petronella Leijten (85), Breda (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• Cornelia Maria KORFAGE (78), Berkhout, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Janssen (72), Heerlen
• Alexander, Hermanus, Jan Man (77), Amsterdam (noord-holland)
• Berend Vijge (82), Epe-Emst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Leeuwen (91), Telfer Place, Paris, Ontario
• André LEDERER (87), Anderlecht, 1070, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique
• Alida Johanna Majoor (92), Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• 1990 » Kevin Kampl, German-Slovene footballer
• 1991 » Tyson Frizell, Australian-Welsh rugby league player
• 1992 » Tyler James Williams, American actor and rapper
• 1993 » Ani Amiraghyan, Armenian tennis player
• 1993 » Jayden Hodges, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Lauren Davis, American tennis player
• 1993 » Scotty McCreery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1993 » Wesley So, Filipino-American chess grandmaster
• 1996 » Bella Hadid, American model
• 2001 » Kyla Leibel, Canadian swimmer

• 1995 » Alec Douglas-Home, British cricketer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903)
• 1996 » Walter Kerr, American author, composer, and critic (b. 1913)
• 1999 » Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani economist and scholar (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Milt Jackson, American vibraphone player and composer (b. 1923)
• 2000 » David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
• 2000 » Patrick Anthony Porteous, Indian-Scottish colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Herbert Ross, American director, producer, and choreographer (b. 1927)
• 2002 » Charles Guggenheim, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 2002 » Sopubek Begaliev, Kyrgyzstani economist and politician (b. 1931)
• 2003 » Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American author and academic (b. 1926)

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

1. Laura
2. Anne
3. Amber
4. Anna
5. Sanne
6. Lisa
7. Lotte
8. Celine
9. Michelle
10. Demi
11. Eline
12. Iris
13. Naomi
14. Kim
15. Femke
16. Melissa

• 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.
• February 22 » In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
• April 6 » In Greene County, Tennessee, the Lillelid murders occurs when a group of young people abduct and kidnap a religious family before shooting them dead on a rural suburban road.
• May 17 » Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• July 10 » Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
• August 10 » Sixteen people are killed when Formosa Airlines Flight 7601 crashes near Beigan Airport in the Matsu Islands of Taiwan.
• December 22 » Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991.

The temperature on October 9, 1997 was between 15.3 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 7.9 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.