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• Stefanus Wilhelmus Mauritius "Stef" Vliegen, Maastricht, Li.NL.(Zkh) († 2001)

• Catharina (Carin) Klaphaak (39), Nootdorp
• Cornelia Johanna Versluis (88), Almkerk
• Cornelia Dalhuijsen (74), Pretoria Zuid Afrika
• Andre Diepstra (31), Nieuw-Weerdinge, Emmen
• Catharina Margretha Broodbakker (79), Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Akke Cornelia Keur (55)
• Cornelia Elisabeth Antonia Christina van Dijck (69), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Jozef Reniers (85), Sint-Truiden, België
• Ad Vissers (74), Esch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• ALWIN Christoph KOHLMEYER (70), Piet Retief, Transvaal, South Africa

• 1985 » Loui Eriksson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1985 » Tom Fletcher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1986 » DeAngelo Smith, American football player
• 1986 » Lacey Von Erich, American wrestler
• 1987 » Darius Boyd, Australian rugby league player
• 1987 » Jan Charouz, Czech race car driver
• 1987 » Jeremih, American singer, songwriter, and record producer
• 1994 » Benjamin Mendy, French footballer
• 1994 » Kali Uchis, American singer-songwriter
• 1998 » Rosana Serrano, Cuban rower

• 1996 » Victims of TWA Flight 800
• 1998 » Lillian Hoban, American author and illustrator (b. 1925)
• 2001 » Katharine Graham, American publisher (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)
• 2003 » David Kelly, Welsh weapons inspector (b. 1944)
• 2003 » Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichord player (b. 1914)
• 2003 » Walter Zapp, Latvian-Swiss inventor, invented the Minox (b. 1905)
• 2005 » Edward Heath, English colonel and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)
• 2005 » Geraldine Fitzgerald, Irish-American actress (b. 1913)
• 2005 » Joe Vialls, Australian journalist and theorist (b. 1944)

1. Thomas
2. Jan
3. Lucas
4. Robin
5. Daan
6. Lars
7. Max
8. Bram
9. Tim
10. Ruben
11. Jasper
12. Thijs
13. Jacob
14. Sander
15. Niels
16. Stijn

1. Emma
2. Britt
3. Femke
4. Julia
5. Ilse
6. Sophie
7. Amber
8. Sanne
9. Anna
10. Laura
11. Lisa
12. Fleur
13. Anne
14. Charlotte
15. Maria
16. Anastasia

• 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
• January 29 » Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
• April 11 » The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.
• June 21 » A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen.
• July 24 » Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
• September 14 » Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
• September 27 » In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.

The temperature on July 17, 2001 was between 8.6 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.