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• Jordan Walker Mouw, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1998)

• Anton Boom (47), Gorssel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Catharina Adjuta Adriana van de Sande (66), Voorburg
• Aaltje Mulder (86)
• Christiaan Jacobus Wessel (86), Leiderdorp
• Anna Marie Dil (70), Landsmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Edo Westerink (75), Harderwijk
• Antonius Carolina Martens (78), Bladel en Netersel
• Anna Margaretha Hoogeveen (80), Oosterhout
• Eduard Duco (Eddy) Manson (79), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• BEATRIX IMMERZEEL (76), VLAARDINGEN

• 1989 » G-Eazy, American rapper
• 1990 » Mattias Ekholm, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1991 » Aled Davies, Welsh discus thrower
• 1991 » Cody Eakin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 » Marcus Bettinelli, English footballer, goalkeeper
• 1994 » Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer
• 1994 » Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer
• 1994 » Emily Nicholl, Scottish netball player
• 1994 » Emily Temple Wood, American 2016 Wikipedian of the Year award
• 1999 » Tarjei Sandvik Moe, Norwegian actor

• 1991 » Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
• 1992 » Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese race car driver (b. 1956)
• 1995 » Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
• 1996 » Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (b. 1934)
• 1996 » Joseph Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (b. 1923)
• 2000 » Kurt Schork, American journalist and scholar (b. 1947)
• 2000 » Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
• 2002 » Wallace Markfield, American author (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Rachel Kempson, English actress (b. 1910)

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 7 » NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.
• May 8 » China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people.
• August 6 » Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 229 of 254 people on board.
• November 10 » WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
• 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 29 » Hong Kong begins to kill all the city's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain.

The temperature on May 24, 1997 was between 5.9 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.