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• Nathan Meems, Zwolle Overijssel Nederland († 1996)
• Nathan Meems, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1996)

• Cornelia Johanna Adriana van der Avoird (87), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Barteltje Remerij (52)
• Alvin Dorothy Maticka (84)
• Constant Verschueren (79), Lier, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Cornelia Margaretha Keemink (94), Voorburg
• Agatha Buschman (84), Noordwijkerhout
• Annie Marie Todd (83), Neelyville, Butler, Missouri, United States of America
• Arendina Baaksma (83)
• Antonius Johannes Kaspers (75), Utrecht
• Antje Jonker (89), Doetinchem

• 1990 » Aleksandr Menkov, Russian long jumper
• 1990 » David Goffin, Belgian tennis player
• 1990 » Urszula Radwańska, Polish tennis player
• 1990 » Yasiel Puig, Cuban baseball player
• 1991 » Eugenio Pisani, Italian race car driver
• 1993 » Rahama Sadau, Nigerian actress
• 1994 » Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese figure skater
• 1997 » Abi Harrison, Scottish footballer
• 1997 » Tommy Nelson, American actor
• 1998 » Tony Yike Yang, Canadian pianist

• 1989 » Haystacks Calhoun, American wrestler and actor (b. 1934)
• 1990 » Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian painter and educator (b. 1904)
• 1990 » Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1992 » Richard J. Hughes, American politician, 45th Governor of New Jersey, and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Abidin Dino, Turkish-French painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
• 1993 » Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian physician and politician, 1st President of Ivory Coast (b. 1905)
• 1995 » Kathleen Harrison, English actress (b. 1892)
• 1997 » Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1942)
• 1998 » John Addison, English-American composer and conductor (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)

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

1. Laura
2. Lisa
3. Anna
4. Jessica
5. Kim
6. Emma
7. Lotte
8. Charlotte
9. Anne
10. Iris
11. Sarah
12. Amber
13. Julia
14. Sanne
15. Naomi
16. Maria

• 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.
• March 13 » The Dunblane massacre leads to the death of sixteen primary school children and one teacher in Dunblane, Scotland.
• March 18 » A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
• March 23 » Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
• September 4 » War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.
• November 5 » Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.
• 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 7, 1996 was between 3.6 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.