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• Emma Catharina Elisabeth Jonkman († 2010)
• Henk Hugo Willem Vanderjeugt

• Alphonsus Maria Wilhelmus Hendrikse (76), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Claude Elmer Dibble (63), Victor, Ontario, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Isabella Six (73)
• Antonia Visch (90)
• Bouke de Vries
• Albertina Kocx (83), Herentals
• Arie Gerrit Lammers (85), Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Andries Zuur (32), de Lier
• Carolina Cornelia de Jong + (89), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aleida Martina Rotmans (90), Winterswijk

• 1988 » Kealoha Pilares, American football player
• 1989 » Daly Cherry-Evans, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Ciro Immobile, Italian footballer
• 1991 » Angelique van der Meet, Dutch tennis player
• 1991 » Antonio Pedroza, English-Mexican footballer
• 1991 » Giovanni Kyeremateng, Italian footballer
• 1991 » Hidilyn Diaz, Filipino weightlifter
• 1991 » Jocelyn Rae, English-Scottish tennis player
• 1992 » Kyle Turner, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 » Elseid Hysaj, Albanian footballer

• 1993 » Ernest L. Massad, American general (b. 1908)
• 1993 » Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian businessman, founded Lamborghini (b. 1916)
• 1996 » Audrey Munson, American model (b. 1891)
• 1996 » Solomon Asch, American psychologist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1996 » Toru Takemitsu, Japanese pianist, guitarist, and composer (b. 1930)
• 1999 » Gene Siskel, American journalist and critic (b. 1946)
• 1999 » Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
• 2000 » Anatoly Sobchak, Russian lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Saint Petersburg (b. 1937)
• 2001 » Donella Meadows, American environmentalist, author, and academic (b. 1941)
• 2001 » Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)

• 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 11 » Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
• June 13 » A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• July 2 » The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis.
• August 31 » Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
• September 14 » Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
• December 11 » The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.

The temperature on February 20, 1997 was between 6.2 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.