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Died on Wednesday February 5, 1997
- Boyd Farnum Calton (77), San Francisco County, California, Verenigde Staten
- Aart Juffer (25)
- Winkelmolen (77), Boxmeer
- Dora Hermance Charlotte FRANK (95), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Arnoldus Cornelis van iersel (77), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Albert Jan Keijl, Hattem
- Dirk KUHLMAN (75), Doetinchem, Gelderland, Nederland
- Antonia van Rijswijk (63)
- Albertus Hendrikus Evers (89)
- Dirk Visscher (74), Volendam
Born on February 5
- 1990 » Dmitry Andreikin, Russian chess player
- 1991 » Gerald Tusha, Albanian footballer
- 1991 » Nabil Bahoui, Swedish footballer
- 1992 » Neymar, Brazilian footballer
- 1992 » Stefan de Vrij, Dutch footballer
- 1993 » Leilani Latu, Australian rugby league player
- 1993 » Ty Rattie, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1995 » Adnan Januzaj, Belgian-Albanian footballer
- 1996 » Stina Blackstenius, Swedish footballer
- 1997 » Patrick Roberts, English footballer
Died on February 5
- 1992 » Miguel Rolando Covian, Argentinian-Brazilian physiologist and academic (b. 1913)
- 1993 » Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
- 1993 » Seán Flanagan, Irish footballer and politician, 7th Irish Minister for Health (b. 1922)
- 1993 » William Pène du Bois, American author and illustrator (b. 1916)
- 1995 » Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)
- 1997 » Pamela Harriman, English-American diplomat, 58th United States Ambassador to France (b. 1920)
- 1997 » René Huyghe, French historian and author (b. 1906)
- 1998 » Tim Kelly, American guitarist (b. 1963)
- 1999 » Wassily Leontief, Russian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- 2000 » Claude Autant-Lara, French director and screenwriter (b. 1901)
Names that were popular for boys in 1997
- Thomas
- Sander
- Michael
- Jan
- Kevin
- Niels
- Bas
- Tim
- Johannes
- Daan
- Robin
- Max
- Ruben
- Nick
- David
- Jasper
Names that were popular for girls in 1997
- Laura
- Anne
- Amber
- Anna
- Sanne
- Lisa
- Lotte
- Michelle
- Celine
- Demi
- Eline
- Kim
- Iris
- Naomi
- Femke
- Emma
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1997
- 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 28 » An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 3,000 deaths.
- June 16 » Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.
- August 7 » Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- September 18 » United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1billion to the United Nations.
- October 15 » The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
- November 3 » The United States imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.
Weather February 5, 1997
The temperature on February 5, 1997 was between 1.3 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 6.5 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.