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• Maria Magaretha Jong, Nieuwe Niedorp († 2007)
• Anna Marie Nederhoff, Marshalltown Medical and Surgical Center, Marshalltown, Iowa († 1997)

• Alida Lucia Maria Roovers (76), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Cornelia Gabriels (85), Roosendaal
• Cornelia Boone (96), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Catharina Adriana Kurver (87), Bleiswijk, Lansingerland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anne Dijkstra (75)
• Albertje Andeweg (74), Vlaardingen
• Cornelia Johanna Huijbregts (55), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Cornelia Suzanna Rosendaal (101), Middelburg, Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands
• CJ Huijbregts (55)
• Anna Maria van der Hoff (72), Barendrecht

• 1990 » Anna van der Breggen, Dutch cyclist
• 1990 » Henderson Álvarez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1990 » Jake Howells, English footballer
• 1993 » Matt Salisbury, English cricketer
• 1993 » Nathan Sykes, English singer-songwriter
• 1995 » Divock Origi, Belgian footballer
• 1996 » Ioana Ducu, Romanian tennis player
• 1996 » Mariah Bell, American figure skater
• 1997 » Donny van de Beek, Dutch footballer
• 1997 » Matthias Blübaum, German chess grandmaster

• 1995 » Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (b. 1908)
• 1996 » Bernard Edwards, American bass player and producer (b. 1952)
• 1996 » Brook Berringer, American football player (b. 1973)
• 1997 » Edward Barker, English cartoonist (b. 1950)
• 1998 » Terry Sanford, American lieutenant and politician, 65th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (b. 1914)
• 2002 » Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)
• 2003 » Edgar F. Codd, English-American soldier, pilot, and computer scientist (b. 1923)
• 2004 » Kamisese Mara, Fijian politician, 2nd President of Fiji (b. 1920)
• 2005 » Sam Mills, American football player and coach (b. 1959)

• 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 18 » The Red River flood begins and soon overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
• May 17 » Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• June 10 » Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.
• June 12 » Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
• July 7 » The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
• December 19 » SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.

The temperature on April 18, 1997 was between 1.1 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.