About the day » Sunday March 31, 1996Calender converter

• Timothy Hendricus Adrianus van den Enden, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2013)

• Anthony Joseph Szpak (90), Schenectady, Schenectady, New York
• Alidus Christiaan Meerstadt (77)
• Clyde Hoey Lewis (86)
• Cornelia Aagje Broek (90), Velsen, N-Holland, Nederland
• Ervin Stiemsma (79)
• Cornelis Rudolf Hoek (49), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bastiana de Pater (82), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie van der Helm (76)
• Anna Marie Robbins (90), Jackson, Hinds Co., MS
• Anna Bella Robinson **** (78), Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten

• 1991 » Milan Milanović, Serbian footballer
• 1992 » Adam Zampa, Australian cricketer
• 1992 » Stijn de Looijer, Dutch footballer
• 1993 » Mikael Ishak, Swedish footballer
• 1994 » Mads Würtz Schmidt, Danish road cyclist
• 1994 » Samira Asghari, Afghan member of the International Olympic Committee
• 1994 » Tyler Wright, Australian surfer
• 1995 » Fiona Brown, footballer
• 1998 » Jakob Chychrun, American-born Canadian ice hockey player
• 1999 » Japhet Tanganga, English footballer

• 1993 » Brandon Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1965)
• 1993 » Mitchell Parish, Lithuanian-American songwriter (b. 1900)
• 1995 » Selena, American singer-songwriter (b. 1971)
• 1996 » Dante Giacosa, Italian automobile designer and engineer (b. 1905)
• 1996 » Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958)
• 1998 » Bella Abzug, American lawyer, activist, and politician (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Joel Ryce-Menuhin, American pianist (b. 1933)
• 1998 » Tim Flock, American race car driver (b. 1924)
• 1999 » Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and ethnographer (b. 1922)
• 2001 » David Rocastle, English footballer (b. 1967)

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. Max
15. Hendrik
16. Daan

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

• 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.
• February 6 » Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 757.
• February 16 » A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
• March 25 » The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
• August 14 » Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
• September 27 » Confusion on a tanker ship results in the Julie N. oil spill in Portland, Maine.
• December 27 » Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram Airfield which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul, Afghanistan.

The temperature on March 31, 1996 was between -2.4 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.