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• Douwe Muizelaar (94), Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland
• Dirk van Leeren (68), purmerland
• Arendje van der Plas (91)
• Bernardus Antonius Kuiper (75), Naarden, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Clasina Maria de Kleijn (82), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Agatha Cornelia Geertruida van der Ploeg (86), Stompwijk (Leidschendam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bert van Bladel (71), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Edmund Martherus (85), Warnsveld, Gelderland, Nederland
• * Norbertus Adrianus Lambertus van Bladel (71), Breda
• Annie Junger (68), Venlo

• 1984 » Nikolaos Karabelas, Greek footballer
• 1990 » JoJo, American singer and actress
• 1991 » Fabian Schär, Swiss footballer
• 1991 » Jillian Rose Reed, American actress
• 1991 » Jorginho, Brazilian footballer
• 1991 » Rachael Boyle, Scottish footballer
• 1992 » Ksenia Makarova, Russian-American figure skater
• 1993 » Robeisy Ramírez, Cuban boxer
• 1997 » De'Aaron Fox, American basketball player
• 1997 » Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer

• 1993 » Nazife Güran, Turkish composer and educator (b. 1921)
• 1993 » W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (b. 1900)
• 1994 » Dean Rusk, American lawyer, and politician, 54th United States Secretary of State (b. 1909)
• 1995 » Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (b. 1938)
• 1996 » Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (b. 1934)
• 1997 » Dawn Steel, American film producer (b. 1946)
• 1997 » Denise Levertov, English-American poet and translator (b. 1923)
• 1997 » Dick Spooner, English cricketer (b. 1919)
• 1998 » Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
• 1999 » Riccardo Freda, Egyptian-Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1909)

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.
• April 1 » The government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the City of Halifax and the over 200 communities around the area to create the Halifax Regional Municipality.
• June 13 » The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
• June 25 » The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
• 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.
• September 27 » Confusion on a tanker ship results in the Julie N. oil spill in Portland, Maine.
• December 30 » Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.

The temperature on December 20, 1996 was between -2.7 and 3.5 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.