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Died on Sunday December 26, 1993



Born on December 26

Died on December 26
  • 1987 » Dorothy Bliss, American invertebrate zoologist, curator at the American Museum of Natural History (b. 1916)
  • 1988 » Glenn McCarthy, American businessman, founded the Shamrock Hotel (b. 1907)
  • 1988 » Pablo Sorozábal, German-Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1897)
  • 1989 » Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1924)
  • 1990 » Gene Callahan, American art director and production designer (b. 1923)
  • 1994 » Sylva Koscina, Italian actress (b. 1933)
  • 1996 » JonBenét Ramsey, American child beauty queen and prominent unsolved murder victim (b. 1990)
  • 1997 » Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1910)
  • 1997 » Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek economist and philosopher (b. 1922)
  • 1998 » Ram Swarup, Indian writer on Hindu philosophy and religion (b. 1920)

Names that were popular for boys in 1993
  1. Jeroen
  2. Thomas
  3. Michael
  4. Tim
  5. Jan
  6. Kevin
  7. Bart
  8. Robin
  9. Dennis
  10. Sander
  11. Mark
  12. Johannes
  13. Jacob
  14. Rick
  15. Hendrik
  16. Ruben
Names that were popular for girls in 1993
  1. Iris
  2. Lisa
  3. Laura
  4. Maria
  5. Tessa
  6. Melissa
  7. Anna
  8. Anne
  9. Sanne
  10. Sophie
  11. Eline
  12. Jessica
  13. Sarah
  14. Michelle
  15. Kelly
  16. Amanda

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1993
  • 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.
  • January 25 » Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
  • May 1 » Dingiri Banda Wijetunga became president of Sri Lanka automatically after killing of R Premadasa in LTTE bomb explosion.
  • May 29 » The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war-torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens.
  • June 5 » Portions of the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK, fall into the sea following a landslide.
  • October 7 » The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
  • November 20 » Macedonia's deadliest aviation disaster occurs Avioimpex Flight 110, a Yakovlev Yak-42 crashes near Ohrid killing all 116 people on board.
Weather December 26, 1993

The temperature on December 26, 1993 was between -0.7 °C and 3.0 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.

Source: KNMI