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• Kimberly Schots (***)
• Johannes Antonius Hendricus van de Ven
• Rick Schots (***)

• Dorus van den Hout (78), Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Bontenbal (69), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Wybes Lourens (73), Driesum
• Dirk Beute (55), Steenwijk
• Aaltje ZIELMAN (85), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelia Willemina Smaal (77)
• Elisabeth Francisca Maria Gillis (88), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Ernest Destrée (91), Den Haag
• Bernardus Maria Burgers (79), Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arthur De Roover (72), Pellenberg, België

• 1992 » Gary Sánchez, Dominican baseball player
• 1993 » Haruka Ishida, Japanese singer and actress
• 1993 » Kostas Stafylidis, Greek footballer
• 1994 » Cauley Woodrow, English footballer
• 1994 » Fumika Shimizu, Japanese actress and model
• 1994 » Tomokaze Yūta, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1995 » Inori Minase, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer
• 1995 » Joe Stimson, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Uladzislau Hancharou, Belarusian trampolinist
• 1998 » Juice Wrld, American rapper († 2019)

• 1993 » Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (b. 1949)
• 1995 » Mária Telkes, Hungarian–American biophysicist and chemist (b. 1900)
• 1995 » Robertson Davies, Canadian author, playwright, and critic (b. 1913)
• 1995 » Roxie Roker, American actress (b. 1929)
• 1997 » Michael Hedges, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953)
• 1997 » Shirley Crabtree, English wrestler (b. 1930)
• 1999 » Charlie Byrd, American guitarist (b. 1925)
• 2000 » Gail Fisher, American actress (b. 1935)
• 2002 » Arno Peters, German cartographer and historian (b. 1916)
• 2002 » Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (b. 1926)

• 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 4 » En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
• February 28 » An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 3,000 deaths.
• March 9 » Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
• July 20 » The fully restored USSConstitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
• August 29 » Netflix is launched as an internet DVD rental service.
• November 17 » In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre.

The temperature on December 2, 1997 was between 1.0 °C and 3.3 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.