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• Sander Cuppen († 2008)
• Janine Verwoert († 1997)

• Carl Mattue Feucht (79)
• Elske de Vries (75), Jubbega, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna May Martin (73), Suisun City, Solano, California, United States of America
• A. B. Grainger (73), Green Sea Cemetery, Horry County, South Carolina
• BURDETTE DAVID TOWNSEND (77)
• Adriaan_Johannes Rovers (78), Den Haag
• Andreas Gerardus Johannes Maria de Wolf (89), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Emma Francisca Knippenberg (75), Bristol Massachusetts
• annigje maria MOL (89), 's-gravendeel
• Anna Laura (Laura) BECKS (76), Green Bay/Brown (USA)

• 1986 » Everth Cabrera, Nicaraguan baseball player
• 1987 » Craig Noone, English footballer
• 1987 » Gemma Spofforth, English swimmer
• 1987 » Justine Michelle Cain, English actress
• 1988 » Durratun Nashihin Rosli Malaysian rhythmic gymnast
• 1989 » Roman Zozulya, Ukrainian football striker
• 1989 » Ryan Griffin, American football player
• 1992 » Alex Sheedy, Australian basketball player
• 1992 » Danielle Kettlewell, Australian synchronised swimmer
• 1993 » Taylor Gold, American snowboarder

• 1992 » Audre Lorde, American poet, essayist, memoirist, and activist (b. 1934)
• 1993 » Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Deputy Premier of Quebec (b. 1926)
• 1995 » Alan Hull, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
• 1998 » Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Kea Bouman, Dutch tennis player (b. 1903)
• 2000 » Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 2001 » Harrison A. Williams, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1919)
• 2001 » Michael Karoli, German guitarist and songwriter (b. 1948)
• 2002 » Abba Eban, South African-Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1915)
• 2002 » Frank McCarthy, American painter and illustrator (b. 1924)

1. Thomas
2. Sander
3. Michael
4. Jan
5. Kevin
6. Niels
7. Bas
8. Tim
9. Johannes
10. Daan
11. Robin
12. Max
13. Ruben
14. Nick
15. David
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 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.
• March 22 » Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
• August 29 » Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.
• September 11 » NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
• November 27 » Twenty-five people are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
• December 6 » A Russian Antonov An-124 Ruslan cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.

The temperature on November 17, 1997 was between 3.3 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (88%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.