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• Benjamin van Brummelen, Tønder, Tønder, Zuid-Jutland, Denemarken
• Sammy Hermans, Sittard,6130,Sittard-Geleen,Limburg,Nederland

• Antonius Lonneu (60), Sint-Truiden, België
• Alvin Herbert Warnberg (84), Orange County, California, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Johanna van Housselt (76), Tiel (GL)
• Artur Lionel DeKreij (68), Las Animas, Bent County, Colorado
• Albertus Nieuwenhuis (95), ,, Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna van der Watering (71), Roosendaal
• Alphonse Vandermersch (87)
• Albert KLEINE (75), Hoogeveen
• Adr Jonkers (78), Moergestel
• Alijda Jacoba Gualth√©ra Weber (95), Den Haag,Den Haag,Zuid Holland,Nederland

• 1992 » Joshua Ingram, Canadian drummer and percussionist
• 1992 » Quinton de Kock, South African cricketer
• 1993 » Patricia Kú Flores, Peruvian tennis player
• 1994 » Lloyd Perrett, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1994 » Nat Wolff, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player and actor
• 1996 » Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Russian figure skater
• 1997 » Naiktha Bains, British-Australian tennis player
• 1997 » Shoma Uno, Japanese figure skater
• 1998 » Jasmine Armfield, English actress
• 1998 » Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer

• 1992 » Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909)
• 1992 » Günther Anders, German journalist and philosopher (b. 1902)
• 1999 » C. Vann Woodward, American historian and academic (b. 1908)
• 1999 » Grover Washington Jr., American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1943)
• 1999 » Rex Allen, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1920)
• 2002 » K. W. Devanayagam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 10th Sri Lankan Minister of Justice (b. 1910)
• 2003 » Otto Graham, American football player and coach (b. 1921)
• 2004 » Tom Wesselmann, American painter and sculptor (b. 1931)
• 2005 » Jack Anderson, American journalist and author (b. 1922)
• 2005 » Marc Favreau, Canadian actor and poet (b. 1929)

• 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 23 » Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
• April 29 » The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
• May 15 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-84 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
• May 25 » A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma.
• May 27 » The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.
• December 1 » Heath High School shooting in West Paducah, Kentucky

The temperature on December 17, 1997 was between -6.6 °C and 0.3 °C and averaged -3.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.