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• Gijs Maarten Loonen († 1997)
• Samantha Christy, Grand Rapids, Kent Co., Michigan († 1997)

• Bertha Nydam (81), Luverne, Rock County, Minnesota
• Adriana Willems van Egmond│Vermae (87), unbekannt
• Adriana Jacoba Nefs (89), Bergen Op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Jacoba van den Eijnden (67)
• Antonius Albertus Leenders (85), Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland
• Agnes Vavak (92), San Pierre, Starke, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus Slotboom (70), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berend Barends Israël (94), Zwolle
• Adriana van Egmond (87)
• * Jacobus Johannes Marinus Ruijssenaars (76), Soest

• 1984 » Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese international footballer, forward
• 1985 » Fernando Llorente, Spanish international footballer, striker
• 1986 » Hannah Kearney, American skier
• 1989 » Gabriel Obertan, French footballer
• 1990 » Kateřina Cachová, Czech heptathlete
• 1990 » Takanoiwa Yoshimori, Mongolian sumo wrestler
• 1991 » Lee Chae-rin, South Korean singer
• 1992 » Michael Chee Kam, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1992 » Mikael Granlund, Finnish professional hockey player
• 1997 » Reghan Tumilty, Scottish footballer

• 1989 » Roy Eldridge, American trumpet player (b. 1911)
• 1993 » Constance Ford, American model and actress (b. 1923)
• 1994 » Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
• 1995 » Jack Clayton, English director and producer (b. 1921)
• 1997 » David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1998 » Theodore Schultz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 2000 » George L. Street III, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1913)
• 2002 » Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2004 » Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general (b. 1905)
• 2004 » Boris Trajkovski, Macedonian politician, 2nd President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956)

• 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 19 » Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
• 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.
• June 25 » An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
• July 22 » The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
• October 27 » The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
• December 24 » The Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria kills between 50 and 100 people.

The temperature on February 26, 1997 was between 6.1 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.