About the day » Monday December 16, 1996Calender converter

• Gregory Vinicius Chaves Selhorst, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 2005)

• Bontje Looper (80)
• Adriana van den Bos (59), Gouda, Nederland
• Allen Dale Black (49), Ashe County, NC
• Carl Johnson (89), Mason City, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Elisabeth van Wermeskerken (87), Leiden
• Aagje van der Ruit (82), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adrianus van der Wulp (60)
• Annegina Post (85), Urk
• Arend (Arie) de Velde (58), Zwolle,Zwolle,Overijssel,Nederland
• Christina Van der Poel (94), Bilthoven,, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1992 » Anamul Haque, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1992 » Moe Miura, Japanese model, actress, and singer
• 1992 » Pietro Perdichizzi, Belgian footballer
• 1992 » Ulrikke Eikeri, Norwegian tennis player
• 1994 » Elliot Lee, English footballer
• 1994 » José Rodríguez Martínez, Spanish footballer
• 1994 » Nicola Murru, Italian footballer
• 1996 » Joel Adams, Australian pop/soul singer-songwriter
• 1997 » Zara Larsson, Swedish singer and songwriter
• 1998 » Mira Antonitsch, Austrian tennis player

• 1989 » Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1913)
• 1989 » Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (b. 1930)
• 1991 » Eszter Tamási, Hungarian actress and journalist (b. 1938)
• 1993 » Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese soldier and politician, 64th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918)
• 1993 » Moses Gunn, American actor (b. 1929)
• 1996 » Quentin Bell, English historian and author (b. 1910)
• 1997 » Lillian Disney, American illustrator and philanthropist (b. 1899)
• 1998 » William Gaddis, American author and academic (b. 1922)
• 2001 » Stefan Heym, German-American soldier and author (b. 1913)
• 2001 » Stuart Adamson, English-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958)

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 17 » NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
• March 18 » A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
• April 4 » Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.
• July 5 » Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
• August 29 » Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
• November 7 » NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.

The temperature on December 16, 1996 was between 2.8 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.