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• Antonie Mourik, Capelle aan de IJssel († 1997)
• Nicky Vermeij, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1998)
• Dani Sebastiaan Gerardus van der Burgt, Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Lola Boer De, Westeinde ziekenhuis, den Haag († 1997)

• Bernadette Leona BUNNELL (86), Muskegon Muskegon County Michigan U.S.A
• Barthold Arnold (Bart) Snijder (38), Zaanstad,Gemeente Zaanstad,Noord Holland,Nederland
• Adriana Paans (86), Werkendam
• Antonius Johannes Maria Valkenburg (66), Amsterdam
• Antonius (Tony) Schoonderwoerd (69), Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
• Age van der Heide (84), Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland
• Blanche PARSONS (95), Syracuse Onondaga County New York U.S.A
• Bernice Keith (73), Greenville, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States
• Anna Elisabeth Plasmeijer (87)
• A. Spiekerman van Weezelenburg (73), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1987 » Michael Baze, American jockey († 2011)
• 1988 » Brad Sinopoli, Canadian football player
• 1988 » Eliška Klučinová, Czech heptathlete
• 1988 » Eric Gryba, Canadian ice hockey defenseman
• 1988 » Roberto Bautista Agut, Spanish tennis player
• 1988 » Vasileios Pliatsikas, Greek footballer
• 1989 » Joe Haden, American football player
• 1990 » Markus Smarzoch, German footballer
• 1992 » Frederik Sørensen, Danish footballer
• 1996 » Abigail Breslin, American actress

• 1994 » Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar (b. 1897)
• 1995 » Burl Ives, American actor, folk singer, and writer (b. 1909)
• 1999 » Anthony Newley, English singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1931)
• 1999 » Bill Wendell, American television announcer (b. 1924)
• 1999 » Ellen Corby, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 2000 » August R. Lindt, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
• 2000 » Phil Katz, American computer programmer, co-created the zip file format (b. 1962)
• 2000 » Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)
• 2001 » Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 2001 » Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (b. 1939)

• 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.
• April 29 » The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
• May 15 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-84 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
• May 27 » The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.
• September 18 » The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is adopted.
• October 10 » Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.
• November 17 » In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre.

The temperature on April 14, 1997 was between 5.1 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (20%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.