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• Alberdina Hakkers (84), Hardenberg
• Agnes Elisabeth Hannen (87), Venray, Venray, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonius Christianus Kuijlaars (80), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha (Annie) van Oort (83), Tilburg, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha van Oort (83), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertha Hendrika Kotterink (80), Haarlem
• Anna Maria Bertens (96), Helvoirt, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aleida Theodora Adriana Daviena (85), Hengelo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Bertens (96), Helvoirt, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Titia Kuipers (75)

• 1991 » Devon Travis, American baseball player
• 1991 » Ji So-yun, South Korean footballer
• 1991 » Joe Alwyn, English actor
• 1991 » Riyad Mahrez, Algerian footballer
• 1993 » Davy Klaassen, Dutch footballer
• 1993 » Masaki Suda, Japanese actor
• 1993 » Steve Leo Beleck, Cameroonian footballer
• 1994 » Charalampos Mavrias, Greek footballer
• 1994 » Tang Haochen, Chinese tennis player
• 1996 » Sophie Turner, English actress

• 1991 » Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian poet, critic, and academic (b. 1915)
• 1993 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (b. 1888)
• 1994 » Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1913)
• 1999 » Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1999 » Ilmari Juutilainen, Finnish soldier and pilot (b. 1914)
• 1999 » Wilmer Mizell, American baseball player and politician (b. 1930)
• 2002 » John Thaw, English actor and producer (b. 1942)
• 2004 » John Charles, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1931)
• 2005 » Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban author, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1929)

• 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 29 » Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes; all 123 passengers and crew die.
• May 6 » The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
• May 21 » The ferry MVBukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.
• June 13 » The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
• June 15 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.
• September 27 » The Battle of Kabul ends in a Taliban victory, who establish the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

The temperature on February 21, 1996 was between -6.5 °C and -1.2 °C and averaged -4.0 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (92%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.