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• Chelsea de Kwaasteniet, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Lotte van Meegdenburg, Buurmalsen
• maartje ebisch, helden-dorp

• Constance Charlotte Pels Rijcken (87), Lochem, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Diedericka Theodora Willemina Garritsen (89), Delden, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alice Zijlstra (90), Platte, Charles Mix County, South Dakota, VS
• Bertha Augusta Vanhoutte (91), Roeselare
• Alice Virginia De Baets (90), Oostburg,, Zeeland, Nederland
• Blanche Underwood (88), Kingston, Roane, Tennessee, United States
• Albert Gjaltema (87)
• Adrianus Jonker (78), Hoogwoud, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Carrie Robinson (97), Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States
• Constance Charlotte PELS RICKEN (87), Lochem, Gelderland, Netherlands

• 1992 » Chad le Clos, South African swimmer
• 1993 » Jordan Archer, English-Scottish footballer
• 1993 » Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1994 » Eric Bailly, Ivorian professional footballer
• 1994 » Guido Rodríguez, Argentine footballer
• 1994 » Isabelle Drummond, Brazilian actress and singer
• 1994 » Oh Sehun, South Korean musician
• 1994 » Saoirse Ronan, American-born Irish actress
• 1995 » Pedro Cachín, Argentine tennis player
• 1996 » Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russian tennis player

• 1988 » Alan Paton, South African historian and author (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Colette Deréal, French singer and actress (b. 1927)
• 1989 » Abbie Hoffman, American activist, co-founded Youth International Party (b. 1936)
• 1989 » Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (b. 1921)
• 1992 » Ilario Bandini, Italian racing driver and businessman (b. 1911)
• 1997 » George Wald, American neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1998 » Robert Ford, Canadian poet and diplomat (b. 1915)
• 1999 » Boxcar Willie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
• 2001 » Harvey Ball, American illustrator, created the smiley (b. 1921)
• 2002 » George Shevelov, Ukrainian-American linguist and philologist (b. 1908)

• 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.
• March 4 » A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin (USA) causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
• March 18 » A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
• May 13 » Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
• June 13 » The Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents.
• July 15 » A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.

The temperature on April 12, 1996 was between -0.6 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.