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• Jannetje Elisabeth Woort († 1996)
• Nathaniël Fokker, Spijkenisse (Gem Nissewaard), Zuid-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Chelsey Matthe, Turnhout, België († 1997)

• Bessie Marie Defrees (88), Nappanee-Indiana (USA)
• Catharina Bekkema (85), Drachten
• Dionisius Vijlbrief (76), Leiden, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• anna maria metsemakers (84), ettelbruck (luxemburg)
• Dora Benjamin (90), Troy, Bradford, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Bouwe Post (75), -
• Cornelis Dordsmond (62)
• Cornelis FISHER (71), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Wittendorp (83), Lourdes (bedevaart), Frankrijk
• Antonius Reimert (78)

• 1988 » Indrek Kajupank, Estonian basketball player
• 1988 » Scott Laird, English footballer
• 1989 » Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, French footballer
• 1990 » Jordan Eberle, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Lee Jong-hyun, Korean guitarist
• 1990 » Stella Maxwell, New Zealand model
• 1993 » Jeremy Hawkins, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1993 » Tomáš Kalas, Czech international footballer
• 1996 » Birdy, English singer-songwriter
• 1997 » Ousmane Dembélé, French footballer

• 1989 » Johnny Green, American composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1991 » Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Malian ethnologist and author (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Andreas Floer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1956)
• 1991 » Fritz Riess, German race car driver (b. 1922)
• 1993 » Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese poet and diplomat (b. 1933)
• 1994 » Gilbert Roland, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1995 » Eric Porter, English actor (b. 1928)
• 1996 » Charles B. Fulton, American lawyer and judge (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Earl Manigault, American basketball player (b. 1944)
• 1998 » Naim Talu, Turkish economist, banker, politician, 15th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1919)

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

• 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.
• January 19 » The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
• March 4 » A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin (USA) causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
• May 27 » First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
• September 24 » Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
• December 29 » Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.

The temperature on May 15, 1996 was between 3.8 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.