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• Ayla Eises Fokkema, Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland († 1996)

• Carl Hendrik Frietzschie (76), Barendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Albertus "Bram" Kugel (79), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Areka van ZIJDERVELD (84), ophemert
• Areke van Zijderveld (84), Tiel
• CHRISTINA WILHELMINA VAN HAALEN (70), WASSENAAR
• Arnoldus Leonardus Franciscus Maria Thijs (52), Alanya (TR)
• Charles VAN WISSINK (66), Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States of America
• Antonia Wilhelmina te Wierik (91), Raalte
• Albertje KINDS (88), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Elisabeth Wilhelmina Vissers (80), Haaren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1988 » Jonathan Biabiany, French footballer
• 1989 » Emil Salomonsson, Swedish footballer
• 1989 » Kim Sung-kyu, South Korean singer
• 1990 » Niels-Peter Mørck, Danish footballer
• 1992 » Blake Bortles, American football player
• 1992 » DeMarcus Lawrence, American football player
• 1993 » Craig Garvey, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Eva Samková, Czech snowboarder
• 1995 » Jonathan Benteke, Belgian footballer
• 1995 » Melanie Martinez, American singer

• 1993 » Diva Diniz Corrêa, Brazilian zoologist (b. 1918)
• 1993 » Jim Valvano, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1946)
• 1994 » Berton Roueché, American journalist and author (b. 1910)
• 1996 » Lester Sumrall, American minister, founded LeSEA (b. 1913)
• 1997 » Ann Petry, American novelist (b. 1908)
• 1998 » Jerome Bixby, American author and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 1999 » Alf Ramsey, English footballer and manager (b. 1920)
• 1999 » Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
• 1999 » Rolf Landauer, German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1927)
• 1999 » Rory Calhoun, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)

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 17 » The 8.2 M_w  Biak earthquake shakes the Papua province of eastern Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A large tsunami followed, leaving one-hundred sixty-six people dead or missing and 423 injured.
• April 28 » Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
• 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.
• August 6 » NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

The temperature on April 28, 1996 was between 5.9 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.