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• Betto Jager, Hoenderloo (NL) († 2022)
• Max Cornelis Marijnus Langerak, Roosendaal

• Betty Jane Forgy (71)
• Christina Johanna Kosters (84), Tilburg
• Annigje Bernardusdr. de Vries (90)
• Bessie Grea Williamson (79), Tiptonville, Lake, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus Theodorus Waaijer (73), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Hogenbirk (75), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Jozina Koster (81), Grijpskerke
• Dimitri Apistola
• Adriana Johanna Plooij (90), Amstelveen
• Anders Torsten Holmström (49), Västerhaninge, Sörmland, AB, Sweden

• 1987 » Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer
• 1988 » Jenni Asserholt, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1988 » Kim Myung-sung, South Korean baseball player
• 1990 » Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer († 2017)
• 1993 » Viktor Arvidsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1993 » Zac Santo, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 » Josh Chudleigh, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 » Cedi Osman, Turkish professional basketball player
• 1997 » Arno Verschueren, Belgian professional football player
• 1997 » Saygrace, Australian singer and songwriter

• 1991 » Per Ohlin, Swedish musician (b. 1969)
• 1992 » Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1993 » Marian Anderson, American operatic singer (b. 1897)
• 1994 » François Rozet, French-Canadian actor (b. 1899)
• 1996 » Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (b. 1918)
• 1996 » León Klimovsky, Argentinian-Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1996 » Mick Young, Australian politician (b. 1936)
• 1997 » Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1947)
• 2000 » Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910)
• 2000 » František Šťastný, Czech motorcycle racer (b. 1927)

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. Daan

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 11 » Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
• 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.
• May 27 » First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
• July 3 » British Prime Minister John Major announced the Stone of Scone would be returned to Scotland.
• November 5 » Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan.
• November 19 » Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.

The temperature on April 8, 1996 was between 0.5 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.