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• Andre Harms, Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Neth

• Bernarda Magteld van Baasbank (86), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Klaas Riemersma (82), Buren
• Cornelia Elisabeth Voermans (88), Gilze en Rijen
• Ana Y Hermanson (84), Broward County, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Meijvogel (95), Katwijk
• Cornelis Gerrard Stienstra (81), Spijkenisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berlin Johnson ROWE (48), South Bend, Pacific, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Carolus Petrus Willy ( Wil ) Kalb (65), Eindhoven
• Cornelia Jacoba de Mooij (82), Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Antoinette Clazina de Wilde (58), Oosterhout, Noord Brabant, Nederland

• 1986 » Mathieu Gnanligo, Beninese sprinter
• 1988 » James Tamou, New Zealand-Australian rugby league player
• 1988 » Olly Lancashire, English footballer
• 1988 » Rickie Fowler, American golfer
• 1989 » Ben Ridge, Australian rugby league player
• 1989 » Hellen Onsando Obiri, Kenyan runner
• 1989 » Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter, record producer and actress
• 1991 » Aaron Telitz, American race car driver
• 1991 » Sénah Mango, Togolese footballer
• 1996 » Gleyber Torres, Venezuelan baseball player

• 1992 » K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman (b. 1899)
• 1993 » Vanessa Duriès, French author (b. 1972)
• 1995 » Ann Nolan Clark, American author and educator (b. 1896)
• 1996 » Edward Blishen, English author and educator (b. 1920)
• 1997 » Don E. Fehrenbacher, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Lew Grade, Ukrainian-born British impresario and media proprietor (b. 1906)
• 1998 » Richard Thomas, Royal Naval Officer (b. 1922)
• 1998 » Wade Watts, civil rights activist (b. 1919)
• 2001 » Chuck Schuldiner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1967)
• 2001 » Michael Bradshaw, British-Canadian actor (b. 1933)

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.
• April 29 » The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
• June 5 » The Second Republic of the Congo Civil War begins.
• July 4 » NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
• August 10 » Sixteen people are killed when Formosa Airlines Flight 7601 crashes near Beigan Airport in the Matsu Islands of Taiwan.
• August 25 » Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall.
• October 10 » Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.

The temperature on December 13, 1997 was between 2.1 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.