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• Nathan Waterham, doetinchem († 1996)

• Anna Petronella van Poelgeest (70), Oldenzaal Overijssel Nederland
• Daniel Glenn Ickes (82), Windber, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
• Bartholomeus Antonius Vos (78), Uitgeest
• Clara A. Murphy (102), Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas Co., OH
• Adela Kate Bayens (87), Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
• Anna Schipper (86), Dieren
• Dionysius Adrianus Pols (81), Dordrecht
• Aart Jan Cornelis Doppenberg (29)
• Adrianus van Riet (92), Halsteren,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Barbe W. Dessart (83), Sint-Truiden, België

• 1990 » Bengali-Fodé Koita, French footballer
• 1991 » Geoffry Hairemans, Belgian footballer
• 1991 » Harry Pell, English footballer
• 1991 » Rob Keogh, English cricketer
• 1991 » Tom Eastman, English footballer
• 1991 » Vadaine Oliver, English footballer
• 1992 » Bernard Tomic, German-Australian tennis player
• 1992 » Marzia Bisognin, Italian businessperson and former YouTuber
• 1995 » Antoinette Guedia Mouafo, Cameroonian swimmer
• 1995 » Cameron Burgess, Scottish-Australian footballer

• 1992 » Ante Ciliga, Croatian politician, writer and publisher (b. 1898)
• 1993 » Sam Zolotow, American journalist and critic (b. 1899)
• 1995 » Jesús Blasco, Spanish author and illustrator (b. 1919)
• 1995 » Maxene Andrews, American singer (b. 1916)
• 1995 » Nancy Graves, American sculptor and painter (b. 1939)
• 1995 » Shannon Hoon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1967)
• 1996 » Georgios Zoitakis, Greek general and politician (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Francis W. Sargent, American soldier and politician, 64th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1915)
• 1999 » Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish political scientist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1939)
• 1999 » Lars Bo, Danish author and illustrator (b. 1924)

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. Anne
10. Iris
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 8 » An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 223 on the ground; two of six crew members are also killed.
• May 6 » The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
• June 25 » The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
• November 5 » Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.
• November 12 » A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.
• December 29 » Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.

The temperature on October 21, 1996 was between 6.7 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 9.0 mm of rain during 5.6 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.