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• Dorothy Margaret Saunders (60), Southampton, Hampshire, England
• Bernardus Hermanus (Ben) Meijerink (69), Enschede, 7500, Nederland
• Eugene Antoine Kengen (93), Maastricht
• Aaltje van der Weide (86), Honselersdijk (Westland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antoon (Toon) van den Boogaard (81), 's Hertogenbosch
• Anna Maria (Tonia) Duijzens (81)
• Elfriede Elisabeth Klinner (86), Warendorf
• Gerhard Johannes van der Made (79), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Magdalena Eerland (97), Krimpen aan de IJssel
• Aaltje Nijeboer (53), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland, Nederland

• 1979 » Steve Montador, Canadian ice hockey player († 2015)
• 1981 » Cristian Zaccardo, Italian footballer
• 1982 » Philip Humber, American baseball player
• 1983 » Steven Yeun, American actor
• 1985 » Tom Sturridge, English actor
• 1988 » Perri Shakes-Drayton, English sprinter and hurdler
• 1989 » Mark Ingram Jr., American football player
• 1989 » Tamannaah, South Indian actress
• 1991 » Riccardo Saponara, Italian footballer
• 1995 » Ronnie Bassett Jr., American race car driver

• 1988 » Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1992 » Albert King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1924)
• 1992 » Nathan Milstein, Russian-American violinist and composer (b. 1903)
• 1992 » Stella Adler, American actress and educator (b. 1901)
• 1998 » Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician (b. 1904)
• 2004 » Autar Singh Paintal, Indian physiologist and neurologist (b. 1925)
• 2006 » Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmen engineer and politician, 1st President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940)
• 2009 » Christos Lambrakis, Greek journalist and businessman (b. 1934)
• 2009 » Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 2010 » Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1927)

1. Thomas
2. Sander
3. Michael
4. Kevin
5. Jan
6. Niels
7. Tim
8. Bas
9. Daan
10. Johannes
11. Robin
12. Max
13. Ruben
14. Nick
15. Jasper
16. David

1. Laura
2. Anne
3. Amber
4. Anna
5. Sanne
6. Lisa
7. Lotte
8. Celine
9. Michelle
10. Demi
11. Eline
12. Iris
13. Naomi
14. Kim
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.
• May 16 » Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
• July 22 » The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
• August 26 » Beni Ali massacre occurs in Algeria, leaving 60 to 100 people dead.
• October 27 » The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
• December 3 » In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, representatives from 121 countries sign the Ottawa Treaty prohibiting manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. The United States, People's Republic of China, and Russia do not sign the treaty, however.
• December 24 » The Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria kills between 50 and 100 people.

The temperature on December 21, 1997 was between 2.2 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 6.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.