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• Thomas Uitdewillegen, Terneuzen
• Vroni Chantalle Joanna (Vroni) Backers, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland, Nederland († 1995)

• Anna Cornelia Stiekema (77), het 'Gemini' ziekenhuis in den Helder
• Antoine Verkest (93), Varsenare
• Bontje (1) de Jong (69), ,,, Purmerend, North Holland, Netherlands
• Arend Kramer (76), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus van Leeuwen (60), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albert Joseph Joël Antoon Fack (79), Waregem, 8790, België
• Adolf, Louis, Henri Monprofit (78), Sint-Amandsberg
• Antje Libbes Meyer (92), Augustinusga
• Anna Wobina (Walburga) - Anna Wilken (92), Bladel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Ash (90), Methuen, Massachusetts

• 1989 » Jordin Sparks, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1990 » Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor and singer
• 1992 » Michaela Hončová, Slovak tennis player
• 1992 » Moonbyul from Mamamoo, K-Pop star
• 1993 » David Klemmer, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Meghan Trainor, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1993 » Raphaël Guerreiro, Portuguese footballer
• 1994 » Rúben Lameiras, Portuguese footballer
• 1996 » Mustafizur Rahman, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1998 » G Hannelius, American actress and singer

• 1989 » Samuel Beckett, Irish author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1992 » Frederick William Franz, American religious leader (b. 1893)
• 1992 » Harry Bluestone, English violinist and composer (b. 1907)
• 1993 » Don DeFore, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1995 » Butterfly McQueen, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
• 1995 » James Meade, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1996 » Jack Hamm, American cartoonist and television host (b. 1916)
• 1997 » Sebastian Arcos Bergnes, Cuban-American dentist and activist (b. 1931)
• 2001 » Ovidiu Iacov, Romanian footballer (b. 1981)
• 2001 » Walter Newton Read, American lawyer and second chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (b. 1918)

• 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 15.4 million citizens.
• January 1 » The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
• February 26 » The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
• March 16 » Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
• March 25 » WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.
• August 21 » Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, attempts to divert to West Georgia Regional Airport after the left engine fails, but the aircraft crashes in Carroll County near Carrollton, Georgia, killing nine of the 29 people on board.
• November 14 » A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.

The temperature on December 22, 1995 was between 0.1 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 14.9 mm of rain during 9.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.