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• Michelle Grobbe, groningen († 1997)
• Jarrad Wyllie Douglas, brisbane
• Nick Talens, coevorden († 1997)
• Yentl Saerens

• Arie Hermanus Pruijssers (72)
• Alvaro Antonio Duca di Galliera (87), Monte Carlo, Monaco
• Anne Henriette Kristensen (87), Botn Saltdal Nordland
• Barbara Vreugdenhil (81), Maassluis, Nederland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Zwiep ( Swijp ) ( Swiep ) (87), Groningen
• Albert Frederick Baptiste (75), Charleston (Charleston County) (South Carolina)
• Alvare d'Orléans (87)
• Audrey D. Nn (93), Pontiac, Oakland County, Michigan
• Celia Hoek (86), Oudenbosch
• Andrew Harvath (77), Charleston

• 1989 » Giacomo Bonaventura, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Drew Hutchison, American baseball player
• 1990 » Randall Cobb, American football player
• 1990 » Robbie Rochow, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Brayden Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1991 » Federico Macheda, Italian footballer
• 1992 » Ema Burgić Bucko, Bosnian tennis player
• 1994 » Olli Määttä, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1995 » Dua Lipa, English singer-songwriter
• 1996 » Jessica-Jane Applegate, British Paralympic swimmer

• 1991 » Boris Pugo, Russian soldier and politician, Soviet Minister of Interior (b. 1937)
• 1991 » Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (b. 1924)
• 1994 » Allan Houser, American sculptor and painter (b. 1914)
• 1994 » Gilles Groulx, Canadian director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 1995 » Johnny Carey, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1919)
• 1996 » Erwin Komenda, Austrian car designer and engineer (b. 1904)
• 2000 » Abulfaz Elchibey, 2nd President of Azerbaijan (b. 1938)
• 2003 » Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skater and coach (b. 1914)
• 2004 » Angus Bethune, Australian soldier and politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1908)
• 2004 » Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player and trainer (b. 1960)

• 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.
• March 26 » Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
• April 6 » In Greene County, Tennessee, the Lillelid murders occurs when a group of young people abduct and kidnap a religious family before shooting them dead on a rural suburban road.
• May 11 » Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.
• August 6 » Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 229 of 254 people on board.
• August 29 » At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.
• 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 22, 1997 was between 18.9 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 20.2 °C. There was 12.5 mm of rain during 7.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.