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Born on Monday February 5, 1996
- Haiko Steenhuis, Midwolda († 2017)
Died on Monday February 5, 1996
- B.H. Westerveld (90)
- Anna Maria (Annie) Peelen (68), Schaesburg, Limberg, Netherlands
- Claude Wayaffe (63), Bertrix
- Cornelia Elisabeth NUITEN (83), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, NEDERLAND
- Bernardine Elizabeth Carper (87), Omaha, Nebraska
- Charles Lawrence Naylor (77)
- Arthur Darnell Johnson (78), Muskegon, Muskegon, Michigan
- Angele DUHAYON (90), Ieper,8900,West Vlaanderen,Vlaams Gewest,Belgie
- Arend Wilhelm Dijkhuis (31), Drachten, Friesland, Nederland
- Doekele Koopmans (79), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
Born on February 5
- 1990 » Dmitry Andreikin, Russian chess player
- 1991 » Gerald Tusha, Albanian footballer
- 1991 » Nabil Bahoui, Swedish footballer
- 1992 » Neymar, Brazilian footballer
- 1992 » Stefan de Vrij, Dutch footballer
- 1993 » Leilani Latu, Australian rugby league player
- 1993 » Ty Rattie, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1995 » Adnan Januzaj, Belgian-Albanian footballer
- 1996 » Stina Blackstenius, Swedish footballer
- 1997 » Patrick Roberts, English footballer
Died on February 5
- 1992 » Miguel Rolando Covian, Argentinian-Brazilian physiologist and academic (b. 1913)
- 1993 » Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
- 1993 » Seán Flanagan, Irish footballer and politician, 7th Irish Minister for Health (b. 1922)
- 1993 » William Pène du Bois, American author and illustrator (b. 1916)
- 1995 » Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)
- 1997 » Pamela Harriman, English-American diplomat, 58th United States Ambassador to France (b. 1920)
- 1997 » René Huyghe, French historian and author (b. 1906)
- 1998 » Tim Kelly, American guitarist (b. 1963)
- 1999 » Wassily Leontief, Russian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- 2000 » Claude Autant-Lara, French director and screenwriter (b. 1901)
Names that were popular for boys in 1996
- Pieter
- Thomas
- Jan
- Kevin
- Tim
- Niels
- Robin
- Michael
- Jeroen
- Johannes
- Rick
- Jasper
- Mike
- Hendrik
- Max
- Bart
Names that were popular for girls in 1996
- Laura
- Lisa
- Anna
- Jessica
- Emma
- Kim
- Lotte
- Iris
- Charlotte
- Anne
- Sarah
- Amber
- Julia
- Sanne
- Naomi
- Maria
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1996
- 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 17 » The 8.2 Mw Biak earthquake shakes the Papua province of eastern Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A large tsunami followed, leaving one-hundred sixty-six people dead or missing and 423 injured.
- February 29 » Siege of Sarajevo officially ends.
- April 18 » In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Qana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
- June 4 » The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
- 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.
Weather February 5, 1996
The temperature on February 5, 1996 was between -4.1 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged -0.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.