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• Isolde Krijbolder († 1996)
• Frans Willem Wiggers, Weert, Limburg, Nederland
• Julieth Jacoba van Hilten, Bogotá (Colombia)
• Frederique Beekenkamp, Maasdijk, Nederland († 2002)
• Frederique Beekenkamp, Maasdijk († 2002)

• Anna Hoekstra (82), Warga
• Birgit Magdalena (65)
• Bertus van der Lest (74)
• Cornelia Wilhelmina Wagemans (83), Leiden
• "Bart" Albertus Hendricus Könning (81), Huissen
• Annemiek Petra Lieuwes Dijkstra (24), Wommels, Hennaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Alcebíades Salles (93), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Aaltje Siebrand (86)
• Ben van Bavel (71), Drunen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Adriaan BAAS (95), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland

• 1989 » Bryce Gibbs, Australian footballer
• 1989 » Gil Roberts, American sprinter
• 1989 » Sam Baldock, English footballer
• 1989 » Sandro, Brazilian international footballer, midfielder
• 1990 » Siobhan Magnus, American singer-songwriter
• 1991 » Kurt Baptiste, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Tavon Austin, American footballer
• 1991 » Xavier Henry, American basketball player
• 1996 » Seonaid McIntosh, Scottish sports shooter
• 2000 » Kristian Kostov, Russian-Bulgarian singer-songwriter

• 1990 » Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-English journalist (b. 1958)
• 1991 » Bud Freeman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1906)
• 1992 » Rahi Masoom Raza, Indian Urdu poet (b.1927)
• 1997 » Gail Davis, American actress (b. 1925)
• 1997 » Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-French painter (b. 1906)
• 1998 » Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and author (b. 1903)
• 1998 » Tim Maia, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
• 1999 » Guy D'Artois, Canadian soldier (b. 1917)
• 2001 » Ann Sothern, American actress and singer (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Gaetano Cozzi, Italian historian and academic (b. 1922)

1. Pieter
2. Thomas
3. Jan
4. Kevin
5. Tim
6. Niels
7. Robin
8. Jeroen
9. Michael
10. Johannes
11. Rick
12. Jasper
13. Mike
14. Max
15. Hendrik
16. Daan

1. Laura
2. Lisa
3. Anna
4. Jessica
5. Kim
6. Emma
7. Lotte
8. Charlotte
9. Iris
10. Anne
11. Sarah
12. Amber
13. Julia
14. Sanne
15. Maria
16. Naomi

• 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 15.5 million citizens.
• February 9 » Copernicium is discovered, by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al.
• February 29 » Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes; all 123 passengers and crew die.
• April 28 » Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
• May 10 » A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day.
• July 18 » Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.
• December 27 » Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram Airfield which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul, Afghanistan.

The temperature on March 15, 1996 was between -0.4 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.