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• Aleida Geertruida Olthof (77), hellendoorn
• Antje Mintjes (78), Wolvega
• Anna Elisabeth Gerarda Putman (77), Wehl
• Adriana Hage (79), Tholen gem. Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland NED
• Anne Tijben (65), Hemelum, Friesland, Nederland
• Anne Tijben (65), Hemelum (gemeente Hemelumer Oldeferd)
• Anne Elizabeth Baccigalupi (78), Whiting, New Jersey
• Anna Margaretha Sulman (44), Emmen, Nederland
• Armand Docx (70), Berlaar, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Carol Page (72)

• 1986 » Kit Harington, English actor
• 1989 » Yohan Blake, Jamaican sprinter
• 1990 » Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
• 1990 » Andy Biersack, American singer-songwriter
• 1990 » Denis Cheryshev, Russian footballer
• 1990 » Jon Bellion, American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer
• 1991 » Eden Sher, American actress
• 1992 » Cecilia Costa Melgar, Chilean tennis player
• 1992 » Jade Thirlwall, English singer
• 1994 » Souleymane Coulibaly, Ivorian footballer

• 1994 » Sylva Koscina, Italian actress (b. 1933)
• 1996 » JonBenét Ramsey, American child beauty queen and prominent unsolved murder victim (b. 1990)
• 1997 » Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1910)
• 1997 » Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek economist and philosopher (b. 1922)
• 1998 » Ram Swarup, Indian writer on Hindu philosophy and religion (b. 1920)
• 1999 » Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
• 1999 » Shankar Dayal Sharma, Indian academic and politician, 9th President of India (b. 1918)
• 2000 » Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922)
• 2001 » Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (b. 1929)
• 2002 » Herb Ritts, American photographer and director (b. 1952)

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.
• April 29 » The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
• May 16 » Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
• June 16 » Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.
• September 6 » The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2​⁄₂ billion watched around the world on television.
• September 11 » After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.
• December 11 » The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.

The temperature on December 26, 1997 was between 6.2 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 9.7 mm of rain during 7.0 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.