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• Aagje - Maertensdr van der Hulst, Noordwijk
• Joey klaas Hermanus Kerver, Enschede († 1996)

• Arvilla Marie Weaver (92), Troy, Lincoln, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Carel Hendricus Makkinga (83), Hardenberg
• Adriana_Maria Liebregts (92), Tilburg
• Adriana van der Heiden (76), Leiderdorp
• Dena van de Weerd (93), Margate, Broward County, Florida
• Boyd Leslie Baugh (69), Grand Junction, Greene, Iowa, United States
• Antonetta Petronella Anna Agnes WELLING (82), Grouw
• Albert de Graaf (85), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aaltje Krijgsheld (96), Appingedam
• Adriaan van 't Geloof (91), Lage Zwaluwe, Drimmelen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1992 » Javier Báez, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1992 » Linos Chrysikopoulos, Greek basketball player
• 1992 » Marco van Ginkel, Dutch footballer
• 1992 » Masahudu Alhassan, Ghanaian footballer
• 1993 » Reena Pärnat, Estonian archer
• 1994 » Seedy Njie, English footballer
• 1995 » Agnė Čepelytė, Lithuanian tennis player
• 1995 » James Wilson, English footballer
• 1995 » Jenna Fife, Scottish footballer
• 1998 » Shimona Nelson, Jamaican netballer

• 1991 » George Stigler, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1991 » Pat O'Callaghan, Irish athlete (b. 1906)
• 1993 » Ray Gillen, American singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
• 1995 » Colin Tapley, New Zealand-English actor (b. 1907)
• 1995 » Hopper Levett, English cricketer (b. 1908)
• 1995 » Maxwell R. Thurman, American general (b. 1931)
• 1996 » Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1928)
• 1997 » Endicott Peabody, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1920)
• 1997 » Michel Bélanger, Canadian banker and businessman (b. 1929)
• 1997 » Stéphane Grappelli, French violinist (b. 1908)

• 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 19 » The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
• February 10 » IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
• June 13 » The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
• July 15 » A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
• 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.
• November 23 » Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.

The temperature on December 1, 1996 was between 0.4 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.