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• Anna Servaes (83), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Arthur Caruso Guarisse (30), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
• Aike Kruiter (85), Ter Apel, Groningen, Netherlands
• Aad van Ierland (t) (59), Leidschendam
• Antoon Naberman (84)
• Alfons Van Dam (90), Morkhoven, Herentals, België
• Arnoldus Gerardus Maria Hoogeboom (43), Amsterdam
• Alma Edith Mitchell (84), St. Petersburg, Flevoland, Nederland
• Ankje Groen (87), Drachten, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Buss (89)

• 1989 » Nichole Bloom, American actress and model
• 1991 » Conor Daly, American race car driver
• 1992 » Daiamami Genki, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1992 » Jesse Lingard, English footballer
• 1996 » Jenifer Brening, German singer
• 1996 » Oleksandr Zinchenko, Ukrainian footballer
• 1997 » Magdalena Fręch, Polish tennis player
• 1997 » Maude Apatow, American actress
• 1997 » Stefania LaVie Owen, New Zealand-American actress
• 1997 » Zach Banks, American race car driver

• 1984 » Jan Peerce, American tenor and actor (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Mauritian physician and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius (b. 1900)
• 1986 » Serge Lifar, Russian-French ballet dancer and choreographer
• 1989 » Edward Underdown, English actor and jockey (b. 1908)
• 1991 » Vasily Zaytsev, Russian captain (b. 1915)
• 1993 » William Dale Phillips, American chemist and engineer (b. 1925)
• 2000 » Haris Brkić, Bosnian-Serbian basketball player (b. 1974)
• 2003 » George Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1923)
• 2003 » Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1947)
• 2003 » Vincent Apap, Maltese sculptor (b. 1909)

1. Jeroen
2. Thomas
3. Michael
4. Tim
5. Jan
6. Kevin
7. Bart
8. Robin
9. Sander
10. Dennis
11. Mark
12. Johannes
13. Rick
14. Jacob
15. Ruben
16. Hendrik

1. Iris
2. Lisa
3. Laura
4. Maria
5. Tessa
6. Anne
7. Melissa
8. Anna
9. Sanne
10. Sophie
11. Eline
12. Sarah
13. Jessica
14. Michelle
15. Kelly
16. Amanda

• 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.2 million citizens.
• July 9 » The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act leading to the 1999 creation of Nunavut, dividing the Northwest Territories into arctic (Inuit) and sub-arctic (Dene) lands based on a plebiscite.
• August 7 » Ada Deer, a Menominee activist, sworn in as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
• September 14 » Lufthansa Flight 2904, an Airbus A320, crashes into an embankment after overshooting the runway at Okęcie International Airport (now Warsaw Chopin Airport), killing two people.
• October 3 » An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
• November 20 » Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
• December 2 » Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.

The temperature on December 15, 1993 was between 0.5 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 5.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.