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• johannes henricus maria (joey) geraeds, venlo
• tomas de melker, leiden († 1996)

• Anton Jan Ton Oele (70), Bergen op Zoom
• Charles Joseph Jellema (92), Driebergen, Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelis Verkade (83)
• Antoon Gerard Havekes (67), Oeffelt
• Charles Joseph Jellema (92), Driebergen, Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Adriaan Sies (85), Nieuwerkerk, Zeeland, Nederland
• Cornelia Jobse (91), Middelburg, Zeeland, NL
• Catharina Anna Dik (77), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• annie verbeek
• Cecilia Agnes Albertine Fallon (82)

• 1988 » Aroldis Chapman, Cuban baseball player
• 1988 » Markéta Irglová, Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
• 1989 » Angelababy, Chinese actress
• 1989 » Carlos Dunlap, American football player
• 1989 » Charles Jenkins, American basketball player
• 1989 » Kevin Proctor, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 » Takayasu Akira, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1994 » Arkadiusz Milik, Polish footballer
• 1994 » Jake Bugg, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1999 » Luka Dončić, Slovenian basketball player

• 1991 » Wassily Hoeffding, Finnish-American statistician and theorist (b. 1914)
• 1993 » Ishirō Honda, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 1993 » Ruby Keeler, Canadian-American actress and dancer (b. 1909)
• 1998 » Arkady Shevchenko, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1930)
• 1998 » Dermot Morgan, Irish comedian and actor (b. 1952)
• 2002 » Helmut Zacharias, German violinist and composer (b. 1920)
• 2002 » Mary Stuart, American actress and singer (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Chris Brasher, Guyanese-English runner and journalist, co-founded the London Marathon (b. 1928)
• 2003 » Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadorian general and politician, President of El Salvador (b. 1917)
• 2004 » Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and librarian (b. 1914)

• 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.
• January 8 » An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 223 on the ground; two of six crew members are also killed.
• April 28 » Port Arthur massacre, Tasmania: A gunman, Martin Bryant, opens fire at the Broad Arrow Cafe in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 23 others.
• June 25 » The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
• 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.
• September 7 » Rapper and hip hop artist Tupac Shakur is fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. He succumbs to his injuries six days later.
• November 25 » An ice storm strikes the central U.S., killing 26 people. A powerful windstorm affects Florida and winds gust over 90mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers.

The temperature on February 28, 1996 was between -0.4 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.