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• Antonius Wilhelmus van Dijk (83), Goirle
• Charlotta Fredrika van Wijk (84), Brisbane (Australië)
• Adriana van Duijn (87), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Beulah [Boots) EARLEY (90), Rutherford County, North Carolina
• Anne Liemburg (77), Heerenveen
• Augusta Amelia Francisca Crols (89), Geertruidenberg
• Aart Sekeres (40)
• Aletta Florence Raymonde Waalewijn (52), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adam Dieckman (69), Dedemsvaart, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelia Maria Wartenberg (78), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1988 » Hoodie Allen, American rapper
• 1988 » Kirk Cousins, American football player
• 1988 » Veronica Roth, American author
• 1989 » Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper, actor
• 1990 » Danny Galbraith, Scottish footballer
• 1994 » Fernando Gaviria, Colombian cyclist
• 1994 » Guadalupe Pérez Rojas, Argentinian tennis player
• 1994 » Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete and heptathlete
• 1995 » Dylan Phythian, Australian rugby league player
• 1996 » Hsu Ching-wen, Taiwanese tennis player

• 1986 » Hermione Baddeley, English actress (b. 1906)
• 1993 » Utpal Dutt, Bangladeshi actor, director, and playwright (b. 1929)
• 1994 » Linus Pauling, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1995 » Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and musicologist (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Bineshwar Brahma, Indian poet, author, and educator (b. 1948)
• 2000 » Theodore Trautwein, American lawyer and judge (b. 1920)
• 2001 » Donald Woods, South African journalist and activist (b. 1933)
• 2003 » Carlos Roberto Reina, Honduran lawyer and politician, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
• 2005 » Mo Mowlam, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1949)

• 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.
• May 10 » The 7.3 M_w Qayen earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province killing 1,567 people.
• May 15 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-84 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
• July 27 » About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
• September 7 » Maiden flight of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
• September 11 » NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
• November 3 » The United States imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.

The temperature on August 19, 1997 was between 11.8 °C and 28.5 °C and averaged 21.3 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (91%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.