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• Carolus-Johannes Barth (73), 's-Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Maria Mirck (76), Breda
• Aad Mirck (76), Breda
• Aleida Maria Ouderling (81)
• Antonius Joannes Charles Jeanetta Maria (Tonnie) Pijnenburg (61), Tilburg
• Albert Bakkum (65)
• "Eelke Melles" van der Veen (84), Kitchener Ontario
• Arnoldus Andreas Eusebius de Vries (69), Gelderingen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Bertie S. Paxton (82)
• Christiaan (John) van Meel (77), Tilburg

• 1986 » Nicky Adams, English-Welsh footballer
• 1988 » Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer
• 1989 » Dan Biggar, Welsh rugby player
• 1992 » Bryce Harper, American baseball player
• 1992 » Kostas Fortounis, Greek footballer
• 1992 » Stuart Lightbody, Irish badminton player
• 1993 » Caroline Garcia, French tennis player
• 1994 » Adam Elliott, Australian rugby league player
• 1997 » Charles Leclerc, Monégasque Formula One driver
• 1997 » Naomi Osaka, Haitian-Japanese tennis player

• 1989 » Scott O'Dell, American journalist and author (b. 1898)
• 1989 » Walter Farley, American author and educator (b. 1915)
• 1990 » Art Blakey, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1919)
• 1990 » Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American pianist and educator (b. 1914)
• 1992 » Shirley Booth, American actress and singer (b. 1898)
• 1996 » Eric Malpass, English author (b. 1910)
• 1996 » Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938)
• 1997 » Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918)
• 1997 » James A. Michener, American author and philanthropist (b. 1907)
• 1998 » Jon Postel, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)

• 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.
• 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 15.3 million citizens.
• January 1 » The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect.
• February 5 » Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
• April 4 » Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation.
• April 27 » South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force.
• May 21 » The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
• December 26 » Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.

The temperature on October 16, 1994 was between 8.0 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (32%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.