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• Zakary Lars Tervree († 2021)
• Joel Nathaniel van Rooij, Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Barbara Lena (Betje) KLERK (73), Nieuw-Lekkerland
• Betty Nieweg (77), Amsterdam
• Albertien Weitering (66)
• Antonius Martinus VOGELS (89), Beek en Donk
• Augusta Engelen (87), Diest 3290(Belgie)
• Anna A.M. Pijpers (41), Breda
• Andries Woudhuysen (78), Amsterdam, 1000, Nederland
• Antonetta Cornelia van Ginneken (68), Etten-Leur
• Agnes (Hubert Salgert) Mangold (85)
• Anna Hilgers (85), Sittard

• 1990 » Vladimir Janković, Greek-Serbian basketball player
• 1991 » Anri Sakaguchi, Japanese actress
• 1991 » Cho-rong, South Korean singer
• 1993 » Gabriela Cé, Brazilian tennis player
• 1993 » James Roberts, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Josef Dostál, Czech kayaker
• 1994 » Umika Kawashima, Japanese singer and actress
• 1996 » Cameron Johnson, American basketball player
• 1997 » Camila Cabello, Cuban-American singer
• 1998 » Jayson Tatum, American basketball player

• 1993 » Albert Sabin, Polish-American physician and virologist (b. 1906)
• 1993 » Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-American mob boss (b. 1910)
• 1993 » Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist and composer (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Mel Bradford, American author and critic (b. 1934)
• 1994 » John Edward Williams, American author and academic (b. 1922)
• 1995 » Howard W. Hunter, American religious leader, 14th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1907)
• 1996 » John Krol, American cardinal (b. 1910)
• 1996 » Marguerite Duras, French author and director (b. 1914)
• 1998 » Fred W. Friendly, American journalist and broadcaster (b. 1915)
• 1999 » Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)

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

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

• 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 9 » First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.
• January 27 » Germany first observes the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
• February 16 » A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
• May 20 » Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
• October 2 » The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
• December 29 » Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.

The temperature on March 3, 1996 was between -2.7 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.