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• Aniek Weijermars

• Eeuwe de Vries (70), Stiens, Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Carlos Schroeder (63)
• Ann Harriet HUIZENGA (83), Grand Rapids, Kent, MI
• Evert Jan Massen (82), Wisch
• Magdalena Catharina van Hooije (88), Brasschaat
• Elizabeth Janna de Leeuw (86), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes van der Made (84)
• Dorrien de Iongh (85), Oegstgeest, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Egberdina Veneberg (75), Vroomshoop
• Anna Boukes Sienema (90), Bolsward, Gem. Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland

• 1984 » Duane Solomon, American runner
• 1984 » Martin Kaymer, German golfer
• 1985 » Kamani Hill, American soccer player
• 1986 » Tom Huddlestone, English footballer
• 1987 » Matthias Schwarz, German footballer
• 1989 » Salvador Sobral, Portuguese singer and Eurovision winner
• 1990 » Ayele Abshero, Ethiopian runner
• 1990 » Bastiaan Lijesen, Dutch swimmer
• 1990 » David Archuleta, American singer-songwriter
• 1994 » Adam Peaty, English swimmer

• 1989 » Hermann Oberth, Romanian-German physicist and engineer (b. 1894)
• 1990 » Warren Skaaren, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1946)
• 1992 » Sal Maglie, American baseball player and coach (b. 1917)
• 1993 » William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (b. 1904)
• 1994 » Jean-Louis Lévesque, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1911)
• 1999 » Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2001 » Samuel Abraham Goldblith, American lieutenant, biologist, and engineer (b. 1919)
• 2001 » William X. Kienzle, American priest and author (b. 1928)
• 2003 » Benjamin Thurman Hacker, American admiral (b. 1935)
• 2004 » Jerry Orbach, American actor and singer (b. 1935)

• 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 » Birgenair Flight 301 crashed off the coast of the Dominican Republic, killing all 189 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 757.
• February 10 » IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
• April 18 » In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Qana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
• May 27 » First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
• June 25 » The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
• July 15 » A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.

The temperature on December 28, 1996 was between -10.5 °C and -4.7 °C and averaged -8.6 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (84%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.