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• Bart Martinus Mylanus, Zwolle
• Koen Hendrik Mylanus, Zwolle

• Antonie Johannes van Kooten (80)
• Charlotte Smart (55), Blackpool and Fylde, Lancashire, Engeland
• Egbert Luit Jan Lap (88), Den Burg
• Franciscus Antonius Cornelis ROBBE (90), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Kranenburg (81), Voorburg, Z.H
• Cornelis Valstar (49), Doorn
• Anna Maria Heijnen (77), Heerlen
• Amelia Ruysen (87), Hasselt, België
• Eric Axel Burgers (63), Lommel (B)
• Bobby Nell Smith (70), Jefferson County, Alabama

• 1990 » Mandy Capristo, German singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1991 » Antoine Griezmann, French footballer
• 1991 » Luke Chapman, English footballer
• 1992 » Karolína Plíšková, Czech tennis player
• 1992 » Lehlogonolo Masalesa, South African footballer
• 1993 » Jake Bidwell, English footballer
• 1993 » Jesse Joronen, Finnish footballer
• 1994 » Margaret Lu, American fencer
• 1997 » Martina Stoessel, Argentine actress
• 2000 » Jace Norman, American actor

• 1992 » John Ireland, Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1914)
• 1994 » Aleksandrs Laime, Latvian-born explorer (b. 1911)
• 1994 » Lili Damita, French-American actress and singer (b. 1904)
• 1994 » Macdonald Carey, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1997 » Wilbert Awdry, English cleric and author, created Thomas the Tank Engine (b. 1911)
• 1998 » Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina (b. 1910)
• 1999 » Ernie Wise, English comedian and actor (b. 1925)
• 1999 » Jean Guitton, French philosopher and author (b. 1905)
• 2001 » Anthony Steel, English actor and singer (b. 1920)
• 2001 » Chung Ju-yung, South Korean businessman, founded Hyundai (b. 1915)

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 28 » GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
• 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.
• December 19 » SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
• December 22 » Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991.
• December 24 » The Sid El-Antri massacre in Algeria kills between 50 and 100 people.
• December 30 » In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.

The temperature on March 21, 1997 was between -0.9 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.