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• Anna Benedicta Plomp (92), Bergschenhoek
• Antoon Staals (86), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert de ROO (66), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelis Voordenberg (83), Purmerend
• Boyd Virdell (Red) Howry (76), Fittstown, Pontotoc, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• Ad Klerx (58), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ad Klerx (58), Waalwijk,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Gillemina Quist (75), Wieringerwaard (Noord-Holland)
• Dina Bergema (90), Leiden
• Daniel Tichelaar (88), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1984 » Vedad Ibišević, Bosnian footballer
• 1985 » Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer
• 1985 » Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer
• 1985 » Mickaël Delage, French cyclist
• 1985 » Viktoria Baškite, Estonian chess player
• 1986 » Mehmet Akgün, Turkish footballer
• 1986 » Raphael Pyrasch, German rugby player
• 1987 » Leanne Crichton, Scottish footballer
• 1991 » Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer
• 1992 » Tara Moore, British tennis player

• 1992 » Leszek Błażyński, Polish boxer (b. 1949)
• 1993 » Tex Hughson, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• 1994 » Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter and politician (b. 1928)
• 1997 » Shin Ki-ha, South Korean lawyer and politician (b. 1941)
• 1998 » André Weil, French-American mathematician and academic (b. 1906)
• 2001 » Adhar Kumar Chatterji, Indian Naval officer (b. 1914)
• 2001 » Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930)
• 2001 » Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist and poet (b. 1912)
• 2001 » Shan Ratnam, Sri Lankan physician and academic (b. 1928)
• 2001 » Wilhelm Mohnke, German general (b. 1911)

• 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.
• July 10 » In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
• July 10 » Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
• October 4 » The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina
• December 1 » In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacked the CPI (ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
• 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.
• 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 August 6, 1997 was between 16.3 °C and 27.4 °C and averaged 22.2 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (91%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.