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• Bernardus Antonius Kuiper (75), Naarden, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Paulus Theodorus van Huet (72), Dieren, Nederland
• Catharina Agatha Cornelia Geertruida van der Ploeg (86), Stompwijk (Leidschendam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dirk van Leeren (68), purmerland
• Anna Fest (92)
• Catharina Adriana van der Ploeg (86), Stompwijk
• Annie Junger (68), Venlo
• Cornelia Susanna Kouwer (86), Wissenkerke
• André Hemmink (47), Lichtenvoorde,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aalt Klaas Kasper (59)

• 1984 » Nikolaos Karabelas, Greek footballer
• 1990 » JoJo, American singer and actress
• 1991 » Fabian Schär, Swiss footballer
• 1991 » Jillian Rose Reed, American actress
• 1991 » Jorginho, Brazilian footballer
• 1991 » Rachael Boyle, Scottish footballer
• 1992 » Ksenia Makarova, Russian-American figure skater
• 1993 » Robeisy Ramírez, Cuban boxer
• 1997 » De'Aaron Fox, American basketball player
• 1997 » Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer

• 1993 » Nazife Güran, Turkish composer and educator (b. 1921)
• 1993 » W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (b. 1900)
• 1994 » Dean Rusk, American lawyer, and politician, 54th United States Secretary of State (b. 1909)
• 1995 » Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (b. 1938)
• 1996 » Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (b. 1934)
• 1997 » Dawn Steel, American film producer (b. 1946)
• 1997 » Denise Levertov, English-American poet and translator (b. 1923)
• 1997 » Dick Spooner, English cricketer (b. 1919)
• 1998 » Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 1999 » Riccardo Freda, Egyptian-Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1909)

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.
• March 18 » A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
• April 1 » The government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the City of Halifax and the over 200 communities around the area to create the Halifax Regional Municipality.
• July 29 » The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad.
• August 29 » Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
• November 23 » Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.

The temperature on December 20, 1996 was between -2.7 and 3.5 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.