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• Femmetje Langeveld, Amsterdam
• Olaf van Maaren, Brussel

• August Edmond Cuyt (75), Temse
• Alvin Henry Dyk (68), Holland, Ottawa, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Arthur Everett Pihlgren (80), Austin, Travis, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Vermeulen (76), Tilburg
• anna maria hendrika (mia) gommans (70), helden-panningen
• Aafke Tibbesma (89), -
• Aloysius Antonius Josephus Gerits (63), Weert, thuis, op de Wilhelminasingel op nr. 139
• Adriana Maria "Sjaan" Smulders (87), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord Brabant
• Adrian Paul van der Voet (36), Calgary, Canada
• Alida Maria Vis (87)

• 1985 » Angela Fong, Canadian wrestler and actress
• 1986 » Kanako Yanagihara, Japanese actress
• 1986 » Lucas Duda, American baseball player
• 1986 » Mathieu Giroux, Canadian speed skater
• 1988 » Cho Kyuhyun, South Korean singer
• 1989 » Slobodan Rajković, Serbian footballer
• 1990 » Martin Taupau, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 » Sean Kingston, American-Jamaican singer-songwriter
• 1991 » Corey Norman, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 » Olli Aitola, Finnish ice hockey player

• 1985 » Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (b. 1912)
• 1989 » John Cassavetes, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1989 » Lionel Newman, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1916)
• 1991 » Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1993 » Françoys Bernier, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1927)
• 1996 » Audrey Meadows, American actress and banker (b. 1922)
• 1999 » Gwen Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1950)
• 2005 » Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist and ornithologist (b. 1904)
• 2005 » Zurab Zhvania, Georgian biologist and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)
• 2006 » Al Lewis, American actor and activist (b. 1923)

• 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 27 » In a military coup, Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
• March 4 » A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin (USA) causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
• April 24 » In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
• May 11 » After the aircraft's departure from Miami, a fire started by improperly handled chemical oxygen generators in the cargo hold of Atlanta-bound ValuJet Flight 592 causes the Douglas DC-9 to crash in the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 on board.
• July 18 » Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.
• July 29 » The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad.

The temperature on February 3, 1996 was between -2.2 °C and 0.3 °C and averaged -1.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.