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• Cornelisje Slijkhuis (78)
• Anna Reynders (81), Merksplas, Antwerpen, België
• Cornelis Hendrik van Tatenhove (69), Hoek Nederland
• Abthonius Gerardus van den Berg (76), Hoofddorp, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Ben de Klerk (56), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Cornelia van den Berg (82), Tilburg
• Anna Maria Theresia Hamers (80), Tilburg
• Albert Jansen (73), Deventer,Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Bernard Klok (72), Canada
• Botje Annes jellema (74), Schiedam

• 1988 » Lassy Mbouity, Congolese writer and politician
• 1989 » Anthony Joshua, British professional boxer
• 1989 » Blaine Gabbert, American football player
• 1989 » Leandro Antonio Martínez, Argentinian-Italian footballer
• 1990 » Jeon Ji-yoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1994 » Lil' Kleine, Dutch rapper
• 1995 » Jakob Pöltl, Austrian basketball player
• 1996 » Charly Musonda, Belgian footballer
• 1996 » Zelo, South Korean rapper and dancer
• 1999 » Bailee Madison, American actress

• 1989 » Danilo Kiš, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. (b. 1935)
• 1990 » Delphine Seyrig, French actress and director (b. 1932)
• 1993 » Aydın Sayılı, Turkish historian and academic (b. 1913)
• 1994 » Sarah Kofman, French philosopher and academic (b. 1934)
• 1995 » Bengt Åkerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1967)
• 1995 » Marco Campos, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1976)
• 1999 » Josef Locke, British-Irish soldier, policeman, tenor and actor (b. 1917)
• 2000 » Konrad Emil Bloch, Polish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 2000 » Vincent Canby, American journalist and critic (b. 1924)
• 2003 » Ben Metcalfe, Canadian journalist and activist (b. 1919)

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

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. 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.
• February 10 » IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
• 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.
• May 13 » Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
• October 7 » Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
• November 3 » Abdullah Çatlı, leader of the Turkish ultranationalist organization Grey Wolves, dies in the Susurluk car crash, leading to the resignation of the Turkish Interior Minister, Mehmet Ağar (a leader of the True Path Party, DYP).
• December 27 » Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram Airfield which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul, Afghanistan.

The temperature on October 15, 1996 was between 10.2 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.