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• Dagmar Elisabeth Spoelder, abcoude
• Pamela Deborah Juffermans, Zoetermeer, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2022)
• Jeroen Duits, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Coenraad Albertus van Groningen-Schinkel, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Alberdina Geertruida Oost (75), Zwolle
• Adriaan Phillipson (86), Amsterdam, NH.NL
• Adrianus Johannes van Kuijk (71), Veldhoven
• Albertus Gustaaf Punie (81), Hasselt, België
• Aaltje Pronk (68)
• Turk (23), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaldert Schoonewille (61), Emmen,, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albertje van der Vlag (36)
• André Vanderschueren (69)
• Arentje Wilhelmina Vermeulen (90), Spijkenisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1988 » Carl Hagelin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1988 » Olga Govortsova, Belarusian tennis player
• 1989 » Heiko Schwarz, German footballer
• 1989 » Lianne La Havas, British singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
• 1989 » Trixie Mattel, American drag queen, actor, and country singer
• 1990 » Seth Curry, American basketball player
• 1992 » Nicola Docherty, Scottish footballer
• 1993 » Iván López, Spanish professional footballer
• 1994 » August Ames, Canadian pornographic actress († 2017)
• 1997 » Lil Yachty, American rapper and singer

• 1989 » Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese poet and academic (b. 1944)
• 1989 » R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (b. 1927)
• 1990 » David Rose, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1994 » Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1995 » Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist (b. 1898)
• 1996 » Margaret Tucker, Australian author and activist (b. 1904)
• 1997 » Eric Gairy, Grenadian educator and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1922)
• 1997 » John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1999 » Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2000 » John Anthony Kaiser, American priest and missionary (b. 1932)

• 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.
• February 21 » Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
• March 2 » Yahoo! is incorporated.
• August 10 » Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are indicted for the bombing. Michael Fortier pleads guilty in a plea-bargain for his testimony.
• August 15 » In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
• September 6 » Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.
• October 16 » The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attended.

The temperature on August 23, 1995 was between 16.4 °C and 29.2 °C and averaged 22.2 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.