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Born on Monday December 15, 1997
- Verele Marchiene van der Vlist († 2005)
- Arjan Gebben, Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
Died on Monday December 15, 1997
- Bert Fleuren (79), Venray, Limburg, Netherlands
- Aagje den Dulk (86)
- Arthur Antoine Mathieu Henri Dumoulin (90), Zeist
- Arie Breeman (73), Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Adriana Elisabeth Petronella van Meel (82), Hoogerheide, N-Br, NL
- Albert Vrijen (85), Zuidlaren
- Anneke (48), Burgerbrug, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Aafke Jantina Helmus (80), Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland
- Albert Ray Sweet [sWkWkWks] (68), Cincinnati, Hamilton Cunty, Ohio
- Dominicus Petrus de Jong (95), Baarn
Born on December 15
- 1991 » Conor Daly, American race car driver
- 1992 » Daiamami Genki, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1992 » Jesse Lingard, English footballer
- 1996 » Jenifer Brening, German singer
- 1996 » Oleksandr Zinchenko, Ukrainian footballer
- 1997 » Magdalena Fręch, Polish tennis player
- 1997 » Maude Apatow, American actress
- 1997 » Stefania LaVie Owen, New Zealand-American actress
- 1997 » Zach Banks, American race car driver
- 1998 » Chandler Canterbury, American actor
Died on December 15
- 1989 » Edward Underdown, English actor and jockey (b. 1908)
- 1991 » Vasily Zaytsev, Russian captain (b. 1915)
- 1993 » William Dale Phillips, American chemist and engineer (b. 1925)
- 2000 » Haris Brkić, Bosnian-Serbian basketball player (b. 1974)
- 2003 » George Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1923)
- 2003 » Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1947)
- 2003 » Vincent Apap, Maltese sculptor (b. 1909)
- 2004 » Vassal Gadoengin, Nauruan educator and politician, Speaker of the Nauru Parliament (b. 1943)
- 2005 » Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician and psychiatrist (b. 1914)
- 2005 » Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (b. 1915)
Names that were popular for boys in 1997
- Thomas
- Sander
- Michael
- Jan
- Kevin
- Niels
- Tim
- Bas
- Johannes
- Daan
- Robin
- Max
- Ruben
- Nick
- Jasper
- David
Names that were popular for girls in 1997
- Laura
- Anne
- Amber
- Anna
- Sanne
- Lisa
- Lotte
- Celine
- Michelle
- Demi
- Eline
- Iris
- Naomi
- Kim
- Femke
- Melissa
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1997
- 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 28 » GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
- March 22 » Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
- July 22 » The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
- August 3 » The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
- December 22 » Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.
- December 27 » Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
Weather December 15, 1997
The temperature on December 15, 1997 was between -1.4 °C and 3.3 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.