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• Henrieke Gerdien Altena († 1997)

• Aileen Leona Cleary (91), Chicago, IL Cook County, Verenigde Staten
• Alberdina Habing (58), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Christina Swildens (90)
• Augiena Trenning (101), Vlagtwedde
• Bernardus Willemsen (84)
• Arnold Jacob Vanneer (88), Geleen, Limburg, Nederland
• Antoinetta Elie (79), Maastricht
• Anna Maria Lambriex (93), Geleen, Nederland
• Aaltje Bos
• Alta Lee Hitchcock (73), Oklahoma, VS

• 1994 » Timothy Kitum, Kenyan middle distance runner
• 1995 » Iván Garcia, Spanish cyclist
• 1995 » Kyle Snyder, American wrestler
• 1995 » Shaolin Sándor Liu, Hungarian short track speed skater
• 1995 » Théo Bongonda, Belgian footballer
• 1995 » Timothy Cheruiyot, Kenyan athlete
• 1996 » Blaž Janc, Slovenian handballer
• 1996 » Denis Zakaria, Swiss footballer
• 1996 » Jack Harrison, English professional footballer
• 1997 » Levi Garcia, Trinidadian footballer

• 1992 » Raul Renter, Estonian economist and chess player (b. 1920)
• 1994 » Jānis Krūmiņš, Latvian basketball player (b. 1930)
• 1995 » Robie Macauley, American editor, novelist and critic (b. 1919)
• 1995 » Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (b. 1967)
• 1997 » Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (b. 1926)
• 1997 » Robert Palmer, American saxophonist, producer, and author (b. 1945)
• 1998 » Galina Starovoytova, Russian ethnographer and politician (b. 1946)
• 1998 » Roland Alphonso, Jamaican saxophonist (b. 1931)
• 1999 » Amintore Fanfani, Italian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1908)
• 2000 » Mike Muuss, American computer programmer, created Ping (b. 1958)

• 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.
• April 28 » Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
• September 7 » Rapper and hip hop artist Tupac Shakur is fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. He succumbs to his injuries six days later.
• October 16 » Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.
• November 5 » Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.
• November 20 » A fire breaks out in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81.
• November 21 » Humberto Vidal explosion: Thirty-three people die when a Humberto Vidal shoe shop in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico explodes.

The temperature on November 20, 1996 was between 3.0 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 6.8 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.