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• Jens Thomas, Herentals, 2200, Antwerpen, België
• Jelle Idzes, Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• OLga Christina SCHMAHL, Gouda
• Maret Hoesen
• Merel Hendrika Cornelia Kikkert, Den Burg (Texel, NH) († 2007)
• Merel Hendrika Cornelia Kikkert, Den Burg († 2007)

• Adriana Dimphna Maria Meesters (96), Breda
• Anna Bernardina Gremmen (89), Beneden Leeuwen
• Anne Bakker
• Anna Maria van Sleeuwen (73)
• Antje Folkerts Rienstra (85), Zwolle, Gem. Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• August Eyletten (72), UZ Gasthuisberg Leuven
• Antje Spriensma (83), Grootegast
• Aalt Woutersen (82), Putten
• Apollonia Wilhelmina van der Hulst (93), Haarlem
• Cora L Craig (89), Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, Verenigde Staten

• 1988 » Russell Westbrook, American basketball player
• 1989 » Hiroshi Kiyotake, Japanese footballer
• 1990 » Florent Manaudou, French swimmer
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• 1992 » Trey Burke, American basketball player
• 1993 » Luguelín Santos, Dominican sprinter
• 1994 » Guillaume Cizeron, French ice dancer

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• 1997 » Carlos Surinach, Spanish-American composer and conductor (b. 1915)
• 1998 » Roy Hollis, English footballer (b. 1925)
• 1998 » Sally Shlaer, American mathematician and engineer (b. 1938)
• 2000 » Franck Pourcel, French conductor and composer (b. 1913)
• 2001 » Albert Hague, German-American actor and composer (b. 1920)
• 2001 » Tony Miles, English chess player and theoretician (b. 1955)
• 2003 » Jonathan Brandis, American actor (b. 1976)

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

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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)
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• The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
• January 21 » The U.S. House of Representatives votes 395–28 to reprimand Newt Gingrich for ethics violations, making him the first Speaker of the House to be so disciplined.
• April 22 » Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria where 93 villagers are killed.
• May 11 » Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
• May 16 » Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
• November 12 » Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
• December 15 » Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 crashes in the desert near Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, killing 85.

The temperature on November 12, 1997 was between 0.7 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.