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• Boyd Van Wymore (73), Charlotte, Florida, United States
• Arie Slomp (70), Westerhaar, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aleida van Valkengoed (86), Amersfoort
• Catherine Darthula Stephens (88)
• Anthony Barbano (79), Oneida, Madison, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Angela Benshoof (30), Tuscon, Arizona
• Andries Verschoor (62), Gorinchem
• Aaltje Adriana van Hengel (84)
• Alberta Wilhelmina Van Asselt (91), Huizen
• Arno Laurence Welch (84)

• 1985 » J. Cole, American singer
• 1986 » Asad Shafiq, Pakistani cricketer
• 1986 » Jessica Ennis-Hill, English heptathlete and hurdler
• 1986 » Nathan Outteridge, Australian sailor
• 1988 » Paul Henry, English footballer
• 1988 » Seiya Sanada, Japanese wrestler
• 1989 » Siem de Jong, Dutch footballer
• 1991 » Carl Klingberg, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1992 » Sergio Araujo, Argentinian footballer
• 1998 » Ariel Winter, American actress

• 1993 » Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer and academic (b. 1905)
• 1996 » Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist and author (b. 1911)
• 1996 » Jerry Siegel, American author and illustrator, co-created Superman (b. 1914)
• 1996 » Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940)
• 1998 » Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1938)
• 1999 » Valery Gavrilin, Russian composer (b. 1939)
• 2001 » Ranko Marinković, Croatian author and playwright (b. 1913)
• 2002 » Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 2002 » Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist (b. 1946)
• 2002 » Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian cyclist and soldier (b. 1913)

1. Pieter
2. Thomas
3. Jan
4. Kevin
5. Tim
6. Niels
7. Robin
8. Michael
9. Jeroen
10. Johannes
11. Rick
12. Jasper
13. Mike
14. Hendrik
15. Max
16. Bart

1. Laura
2. Lisa
3. Anna
4. Jessica
5. Emma
6. Kim
7. Lotte
8. Iris
9. Charlotte
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.
• March 23 » Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
• July 28 » The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
• August 29 » Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
• September 7 » Rapper and hip hop artist Tupac Shakur is fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. He succumbs to his injuries six days later.
• October 16 » Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.
• December 27 » Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram Airfield which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul, Afghanistan.

The temperature on January 28, 1996 was between -7.8 °C and -0.9 °C and averaged -4.7 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (89%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.