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• Rani Vandenbemden, Hasselt,, Limburg, België
• Jonathan Lee Strike († 1996)
• Rialdo Stuiver, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1999)

• Adriaan Nico Kuijer (82), Soest
• Benjamin Boers (72), 's Gravenzande
• Douwe Rinzes Keegstra (87), EE
• Antonius Adrianus Couvreur (80), Breda, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Bolt (88), Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Carolus Johannes Gerardus Swinkels (75), Nuland
• Catrinus Klop (73), Arnhem
• Alida Maria Cornelia Meersschaut (89), Montigny le Tilleul
• Catharina Adriana Verdult (81), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Boorsma (90)

• 1990 » Paradise Oskar, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1991 » Emil Forsberg, Swedish footballer
• 1991 » Jorge Taufua, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Princess Mako of Akishino, member of the Japanese Imperial Family
• 1992 » Álvaro Morata, Spanish footballer
• 1993 » Josh Ruffels, English footballer
• 1993 » Taylor Spreitler, American actress
• 1995 » Ireland Baldwin, American model
• 1997 » Jaydn Su'A, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1998 » Amandla Stenberg, American actress

• 1990 » Thomas Williams, American author and academic (b. 1926)
• 1994 » Robert Lansing, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1996 » Bob Grim, American baseball player (b. 1930)
• 1997 » Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1998 » Barnett Slepian, American physician (b. 1946)
• 1999 » Eric Reece, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of Tasmania (b. 1909)
• 2000 » Yokozuna, American wrestler (b. 1966)
• 2001 » Daniel Wildenstein, French art dealer and historian (b. 1917)
• 2001 » Josh Kirby, English illustrator (b. 1928)
• 2002 » Adolph Green, American playwright and songwriter (b. 1915)

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 11 » Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
• June 10 » Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
• July 18 » Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.
• July 28 » The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
• September 5 » Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.
• October 16 » Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.

The temperature on October 23, 1996 was between 5.4 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.