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• gerardus maria henricus catharina (niels) verheijen, weert
• Max Adriaan Götz, Rotterdam
• rachel susanna syben durie, matamata (new zealand)

• Dirk van der Hoek (88)
• Anna Helena - Leentje Meijer (79), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bertus Henricus Leijten (83), Geertruidenberg (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• Cornelia Elisabeth Maria Zandbergen (92), Goirle
• Cathrina Maria Clasina van der Pauw (73), Rotterdam, Gemeente Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnolda Wijnen (85)
• Edmond Richard Craenhals (78), Bornem
• Clazina Jacoba Verkerk (86)
• Aeiko Schudde (73), Delfzijl
• Anna Maria GLEESON (95), Mystical Rose Nursing Home, Galway

• 1990 » Zac Clarke, Australian footballer
• 1991 » Amy Bruckner, American actress
• 1991 » Lisa-Maria Moser, Austrian tennis player
• 1991 » Marie-Philip Poulin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1991 » Ondřej Palát, Czech ice hockey player
• 1992 » Lucho Ayala, Filipino actor
• 1992 » Sergi Gómez, Spanish footballer
• 1994 » Jackson Wang, Hong Kong rapper
• 1995 » Jonathan Drouin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1996 » Matt Renshaw, English-Australian cricketer

• 1992 » Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist and academic (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Scott Cunningham, American author (b. 1956)
• 1994 » Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright and critic (b. 1909)
• 1996 » Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Franco Gasparri, Italian actor (b. 1948)
• 2000 » Anthony Powell, English soldier and author (b. 1905)
• 2001 » Moe Koffman, Canadian flute player, saxophonist, and composer (b. 1928)
• 2004 » Peter Ustinov, English-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2005 » Moura Lympany, English-Monacan pianist (b. 1916)
• 2005 » Robin Spry, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1939)

1. Thomas
2. Sander
3. Michael
4. Jan
5. Kevin
6. Niels
7. Tim
8. Bas
9. Daan
10. Johannes
11. Robin
12. Max
13. Ruben
14. David
15. Nick
16. Jasper

1. Laura
2. Anne
3. Amber
4. Anna
5. Sanne
6. Lisa
7. Lotte
8. Michelle
9. Celine
10. Demi
11. Eline
12. Kim
13. Iris
14. Naomi
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.
• January 17 » Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta II carrying the GPS IIR-1 satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
• 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.
• May 15 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-84 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
• June 25 » An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
• July 23 » Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
• October 27 » The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

The temperature on March 28, 1997 was between 5.7 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.