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• Antonia (Tonia) van Eeden (55), Grave, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Carl Brown Heidebrink (78), Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa
• Alice Owen Howell (77)
• Anne ter Brugge (94)
• Lammert Gerrit (71), Amstelveen
• Alida Oldenhuizing (76)
• Afke Lenos (86), Oudehaske
• Electa Genevieve 'Becky' Black (89), Edina, Hennepin, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Martina Maria de Kok (88), Tilburg
• Alina NEIRYNCK (90), Waregem, West-Vlaanderen (BE)

• 1986 » Wanlop Saechio, Thai footballer
• 1987 » Raphael Hackl, German rugby player
• 1988 » Candice Swanepoel, South African supermodel and philanthropist
• 1989 » Jess Glynne, English singer-songwriter
• 1990 » Sam Mataora, Cook Islands rugby league player
• 1991 » Zulfahmi Khairuddin, Malaysian motorcycle racer
• 1992 » Ferhat Yazgan, Turkish footballer
• 1992 » Ksenia Semyonova, Russian gymnast
• 1996 » Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, Indonesian badminton player
• 1998 » Jordan Ridley, Australian rules footballer

• 1989 » Anthony Quayle, English actor and director (b. 1913)
• 1990 » Joel McCrea, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1992 » Werner Torkanowsky, German-American conductor (b. 1926)
• 1993 » Yasushi Sugiyama, Japanese painter (b. 1909)
• 1994 » Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1995 » Christopher Stone, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1942)
• 1995 » John Tonkin, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1902)
• 1999 » Calvin Griffith, Canadian-American businessman (b. 1911)
• 1999 » Jack Lynch, Irish footballer, lawyer, and politician, 5th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1917)
• 2001 » Ted Ammon, American financier and banker (b. 1949)

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.
• January 17 » The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
• February 8 » The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
• February 29 » Siege of Sarajevo officially ends.
• 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).
• 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).
• November 18 » A fire occurs on a train traveling through the Channel Tunnel from France to England causing several injuries and damaging approximately 500 metres (1,600ft) of tunnel.

The temperature on October 20, 1996 was between 8.9 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 13.4 mm of rain during 10.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.