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• Cornelis Jacobus Swierstra (89)
• Ad van de Zilver (71)
• Dirk Sip (61), Katwijk aan zee
• Bastiaan Pieter Ouwehand (76), Katwijk
• Elisabeth Pieters (76), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catherine Mary Fox (87), Glen Head, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Bennie Enno Barkhoff (73), Cedar Falls, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States of America
• Anna Lucia Cornelia Saris (93), Veldhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arend Vledder (84), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Catharina (Tiny) de Visser (72), Heemskerk

• 1992 » Joshua Ledet, American singer
• 1994 » Joey Pollari, American actor
• 1995 » Demi Vermeulen, Dutch Paralympic equestrian
• 1995 » Domagoj Bošnjak, Croatian basketball player
• 1995 » Robert Bauer, German-Kazakhstani footballer
• 1996 » Giovani Lo Celso, Argentinian international footballer, midfielder
• 1996 » Jayden Brailey, Australian rugby league player
• 1998 » Elle Fanning, American actress
• 1999 » Montero Lamar Hill, American rapper
• 2000 » Jackie Evancho, American singer

• 1991 » Forrest Towns, American hurdler and coach (b. 1914)
• 1993 » Joseph B. Soloveitchik, American rabbi and philosopher (b. 1903)
• 1996 » Richard Condon, American author and publicist (b. 1915)
• 1997 » Helene Hanff, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1997 » Mae Boren Axton, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
• 1998 » Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (b. 1953)
• 1999 » Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Nigerien general and politician, President of Niger (b. 1949)
• 2001 » Willie Stargell, American baseball player and coach (b. 1940)
• 2002 » Leopold Vietoris, Austrian soldier, mathematician, and academic (b. 1891)
• 2002 » Pat Flaherty, American race car driver (b. 1926)

• 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.
• June 13 » A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• June 28 » Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
• September 26 » An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
• December 11 » The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
• December 27 » Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
• 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 April 9, 1997 was between 3.2 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.