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• Sigmaïliei Francisca

• Albertus van Beckhoven (75), Den Helder
• Anna Clara (Ans) Elisabeth de Jong (66), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arend van Wijk (61), Mariënberg
• Anna Cecelia Hassel (96), North Ridgeville, Lorain, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Bartholomeus Charles Maria (Berrie) Wijngaert van den (72), Tilburg, NB, Nederland
• Araldo Amaral Arruda (76), Brasil
• Aurelio Coutinho (88), Presidente Prudente, São Paulo, Brasil
• Adriana Elisabeth Soeters (87), Geertruidenberg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Clara Elisabeth (Bea) De Jong (69), Amsterdam NL
• Anna Odilia Frenken (87)

• 1991 » Lucy Bronze, English footballer
• 1992 » Maria Sergejeva, Estonian figure skater
• 1994 » Maro Itoje, English rugby union player
• 1995 » Glen Kamara, Finnish footballer
• 1996 » Jack Eichel, American ice hockey player
• 1996 » Jasmine Jessica Anthony, American actress
• 1996 » Una Raymond-Hoey, Irish cricketer
• 1997 » Georgia Godwin, Australian artistic gymnast
• 1997 » Taylor Fritz, American tennis player
• 1998 » Nolan Gould, American actor

• 1989 » Henry Hall, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1898)
• 1993 » Yuri Lotman, Russian-Estonian historian and scholar (b. 1922)
• 1997 » Paul Jarrico, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1915)
• 1998 » Ted Hughes, English poet and playwright (b. 1930)
• 1999 » Antonios Katinaris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
• 2000 » Andújar Cedeño, Dominican baseball player (b. 1969)
• 2001 » Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1910)
• 2002 » Erling Persson, Swedish businessman, founded H&M (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Margaret Booth, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1898)
• 2004 » Eugene K. Bird, American colonel and author, US Commandant of Spandau Prison (b. 1926)

• 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 29 » President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
• February 10 » IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
• April 24 » In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
• May 11 » After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 on board.
• September 4 » War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.
• December 9 » Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topfree in Ontario, Canada.

The temperature on October 28, 1996 was between 11.6 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.