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• Kevin DAUWE, Maria Middelares Kamer 145, Gent, 9000, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgïe
• Judith Ida van den Bos, Den Haag († 1999)

• Alida Kuus (75)
• Anna Maria Catharina Creemers (78), Meeuwen-Gruitrode, Provincie Limburg, België
• Albert Witvoet (71)
• Bernard Jan Eikema (80), Sappemeer, Groningen, Netherlands
• Christian August Krumwiede (83), Martin County, Minnesota
• Alida Post (92), Bergen
• Arie van der Plas (69), Zoetermeer, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus Johannes Joseph Hüsken (70)
• Charlotte Ann Myers (96), Mitchell, Davison, South Dakota, United States
• Antje Poland (88), Spanbroek, Opmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1991 » Conor Daly, American race car driver
• 1992 » Daiamami Genki, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1992 » Jesse Lingard, English footballer
• 1996 » Jenifer Brening, German singer
• 1996 » Oleksandr Zinchenko, Ukrainian footballer
• 1997 » Magdalena Fręch, Polish tennis player
• 1997 » Maude Apatow, American actress
• 1997 » Stefania LaVie Owen, New Zealand-American actress
• 1997 » Zach Banks, American race car driver
• 1998 » Chandler Canterbury, American actor

• 1989 » Edward Underdown, English actor and jockey (b. 1908)
• 1991 » Vasily Zaytsev, Russian captain (b. 1915)
• 1993 » William Dale Phillips, American chemist and engineer (b. 1925)
• 2000 » Haris Brkić, Bosnian-Serbian basketball player (b. 1974)
• 2003 » George Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1923)
• 2003 » Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1947)
• 2003 » Vincent Apap, Maltese sculptor (b. 1909)
• 2004 » Vassal Gadoengin, Nauruan educator and politician, Speaker of the Nauru Parliament (b. 1943)
• 2005 » Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician and psychiatrist (b. 1914)
• 2005 » Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (b. 1915)

1. Pieter
2. Thomas
3. Jan
4. Kevin
5. Tim
6. Niels
7. Robin
8. Jeroen
9. Michael
10. Johannes
11. Rick
12. Jasper
13. Mike
14. Max
15. Hendrik
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. Maria
16. Naomi

• 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.
• February 6 » Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
• February 9 » Copernicium is discovered, by Sigurd Hofmann, Victor Ninov et al.
• February 17 » The 8.2 M_w  Biak earthquake shakes the Papua province of eastern Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A large tsunami followed, leaving one-hundred sixty-six people dead or missing and 423 injured.
• April 3 » Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.
• May 10 » A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day.
• July 17 » TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.

The temperature on December 15, 1996 was between 2.7 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.