About the day » Saturday February 8, 1997Calender converter

• Kelly Wilhelmina Peternella de Laat, Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2018)

• Albert Prins (92), Hoogeveen
• Anna Catharina Mulders (81), Den Haag
• Adriana Joanna Maria van Poppel (93), Tilburg, NB Netherlands
• Annie Nellie GOODWIN (80), Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire
• Anna Maria Schoots (84), Maassluis
• Adriana Jannigje Cornelia DUBBELMAN (58), Geldrop
• Adriana Joanna Maria van Poppel (93), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham van Hennik (101), Nieuwenhoorn
• Arie Speijer (53)
• Adriaan Volmer (97), Oostburg

• 1990 » Emily Scarratt, English rugby union player
• 1991 » Aristidis Soiledis, Greek footballer
• 1991 » Nam Woo-hyun, South Korean singer and actor with the boy band Infinite.
• 1991 » Roberto Soriano, Italian footballer
• 1992 » Bruno Martins Indi, Portuguese-Dutch footballer
• 1992 » Carl Jenkinson, English-Finnish footballer
• 1994 » Hakan Çalhanoğlu, Turkish footballer
• 1994 » Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1995 » Joshua Kimmich, German footballer
• 1996 » Kenedy, Brazilian footballer

• 1994 » Raymond Scott, American pianist and composer (b. 1908)
• 1996 » Del Ennis, American baseball player (b. 1925)
• 1997 » Corey Scott, American motorcycle stunt rider (b. 1968)
• 1998 » Enoch Powell, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Health (b. 1912)
• 1998 » Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1998 » Julian Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
• 1999 » Iris Murdoch, Irish-born British novelist and philosopher (b. 1919)
• 2000 » Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
• 2000 » Sid Abel, Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Ivo Caprino, Norwegian director and screenwriter (b. 1920)

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.
• February 5 » The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
• February 7 » NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.
• March 13 » The Missionaries of Charity choose Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as their leader.
• July 10 » In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
• September 11 » NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
• September 18 » United States media magnate Ted Turner donates US$1billion to the United Nations.

The temperature on February 8, 1997 was between -1.6 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.