About the day » Monday December 23, 1996Calender converter

• Katie Allison Fenner, Calgary (Canada)
• Andrew Ryan van Gorkum, Chatham, Ontario, Canada
• Neómie Courbois, Ottignies, België

• * Jan Keppel (65), Nieuwegein
• Aart Meeuwsen (64)
• Antonie Wilhelmus Spooren (74), Hapert
• Alois Temminghoff (74), Vreden
• Antoon Hakkens (80), Den Haag
• August Kwade (63), Gronau
• Albert Bruursema (83), Grand Rapids
• Camilla Elisabeth Wilhelmine Adelheid Maria von Rolshausen (83)
• Bertha Maria Barbara FRAUSSEN (91), OPZ Rekem-seniorenafdeling, Daalbroekstaat,3621 Rekem,Limburg,Belgie
• Aart van der Pols (73), Barendrecht

• 1986 » Beau Champion, Australian rugby league player
• 1986 » Thomas Bourgin, French motorcycle racer († 2013)
• 1987 » Owen Franks, New Zealand rugby player
• 1987 » Tommaso Bellazzini, Italian footballer
• 1988 » Mallory Hagan, Miss America 2013
• 1989 » Liis Koger, Estonian painter and poet
• 1992 » Jeff Schlupp, German footballer
• 1994 » Reed Alexander, American actor
• 1996 » Bartosz Kapustka, Polish footballer
• 2002 » Finn Wolfhard, Canadian actor and musician

• 1992 » Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (b. 1934)
• 1994 » Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1995 » Patric Knowles, English actor (b. 1911)
• 1998 » Joe Orlando, Italian-American author and illustrator (b. 1927)
• 2000 » Billy Barty, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2000 » Victor Borge, Danish-American comedian, pianist, and conductor (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Bola Ige, Nigerian lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Oyo State (b. 1930)
• 2004 » P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (b. 1921)
• 2005 » Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Charlie Drake, English actor (b. 1925)

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.
• May 6 » The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
• June 15 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.
• July 28 » The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
• August 31 » Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
• October 2 » Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board.
• November 5 » Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.

The average temperature on December 23, 1996 was -2.6 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (85%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.