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• Indy Meersschaut, Gent († 1997)
• N.n. de Boer († 1996)
• Samuel Joseph (Sam) Thijzen, Brazil, Aruba

• Breunis Scherrenburg (63), Giessendam
• Antje Mekkes van Doezum (82), Hardegarijp
• Alijda Petersen Smink (95), Amersfoort
• Adelheid Dirkx (92), Bergen op Zoom
• Cornelis Willem Bijleveld (71)
• Aaltjen Apool (91)
• Adrie Dorsman (68)
• Cathrine Partridge (94), Orange, California
• Alphonsus Adrianus Vermeeren (92), Turnhout (België)
• Alfons VERMEEREN (92)

• 1986 » Mathieu Gnanligo, Beninese sprinter
• 1988 » James Tamou, New Zealand-Australian rugby league player
• 1988 » Olly Lancashire, English footballer
• 1988 » Rickie Fowler, American golfer
• 1989 » Ben Ridge, Australian rugby league player
• 1989 » Hellen Onsando Obiri, Kenyan runner
• 1989 » Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter, record producer and actress
• 1991 » Aaron Telitz, American race car driver
• 1991 » Sénah Mango, Togolese footballer
• 1996 » Gleyber Torres, Venezuelan baseball player

• 1992 » Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1899)
• 1992 » K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman (b. 1899)
• 1993 » Vanessa Duriès, French author (b. 1972)
• 1995 » Ann Nolan Clark, American author and educator (b. 1896)
• 1996 » Edward Blishen, English author and educator (b. 1920)
• 1997 » Don E. Fehrenbacher, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Lew Grade, Ukrainian-born British impresario and media proprietor (b. 1906)
• 1998 » Richard Thomas, Royal Naval Officer (b. 1922)
• 1998 » Wade Watts, civil rights activist (b. 1919)
• 2001 » Michael Bradshaw, British-Canadian actor (b. 1933)

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. Cornelis

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 6 » Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
• February 17 » In Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
• February 17 » NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
• March 18 » A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
• May 27 » First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
• November 18 » A fire occurs on a train traveling through the Channel Tunnel from France to England causing several injuries and damaging approximately 500 metres (1,600ft) of tunnel.

The temperature on December 13, 1996 was between -2.2 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.