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• Kurt Henricus Werner Stolle, Oss

• Adriana Huberdina Bever (82), Etten-Leur
• Anna Catharina van Oss (80), Zoetermeer
• Arlene May Ehlers (78), Stout, Grundy County, Iowa
• Alphonsius Maria Ignatius Hubert Baeten (75), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Adrianus_Johannes Schapendonk (75), Vught
• Anna Engelina Zoelman (88), Ter Apel, Westerwolde, Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Idema (73)
• (65), Gorinchem
• Berend RHEBERGEN (74), Hengelo (O)
• Arendina Wekema (84), Haren, Groningen, Nederland

• 1982 » Francisco Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1983 » Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
• 1985 » Lewis Hamilton, English racing driver
• 1986 » Wayne Routledge, English footballer winger
• 1987 » Davide Astori, Italian footballer († 2018)
• 1987 » Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
• 1987 » Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer
• 1990 » Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
• 1991 » Caster Semenya, South African sprinter
• 1991 » Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer

• 1989 » Hirohito, Japanese emperor (b. 1901)
• 1990 » Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1908)
• 1992 » Richard Hunt, American puppeteer and voice actor (b. 1951)
• 1995 » Murray Rothbard, American economist, historian, and theorist (b. 1926)
• 1996 » Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician, 51st Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1930)
• 1998 » Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
• 1998 » Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 2000 » Gary Albright, American wrestler (b. 1963)
• 2001 » James Carr, American singer (b. 1942)
• 2002 » Avery Schreiber, American comedian and actor (b. 1935)

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. Hendrik
15. Max
16. Daan

1. Laura
2. Lisa
3. Anna
4. Jessica
5. Emma
6. Kim
7. Lotte
8. Charlotte
9. Iris
10. Anne
11. Sarah
12. Amber
13. Julia
14. Sanne
15. Naomi
16. Maria

• 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.
• January 11 » Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
• February 10 » IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
• February 13 » The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre).
• 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.
• June 25 » The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
• October 2 » The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.

The temperature on January 7, 1996 was between -0.8 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 7.1 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.