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• Daan van Zeggelaar, Utrecht
• Jacob Van Vlaenderen, Brugge, België († 1996)

• Alice Gertrude Clinkscales (73)
• Arendina Johanna Lodeweges (89), Goor, Hof van Twente, Overijssel, Nederland
• Champeon Thomas Macq Jones (60), Fresno County, California, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Catharina Josephina Snelders (86), Tilburg, NB Netherlands
• Aleida Hendrika (Alie) Ruesink (60)
• Adrianus van Steenis (52)
• Christian Draayer (83), Freeborn County Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Bedros Sarian (88)
• Apolonia van Dijk (89), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bernardus Johannes Geerdink (74), Almelo

• 1986 » Aoiyama Kōsuke, Bulgarian sumo wrestler
• 1986 » Diego Hypólito, Brazilian gymnast
• 1986 » Lázaro Borges, Cuban pole vaulter
• 1987 » Rashard Mendenhall, American football player
• 1988 » Jacob deGrom, American baseball player
• 1990 » Moa Hjelmer, Swedish sprinter
• 1990 » Xavier Rhodes, American football player
• 1992 » C. J. Mosley, American football player
• 1992 » Keaton Jennings, South African-English cricketer
• 1993 » Olajide Olatunji, English YouTuber

• 1988 » Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (b. 1922)
• 1988 » Gladys Spellman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
• 1989 » Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (b. 1906)
• 1990 » George Addes, American trade union leader, co-founded United Automobile Workers (b. 1911)
• 1990 » Isabella Smith Andrews, New Zealand writer (b. 1905)
• 1991 » Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1993 » William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (b. 1914)
• 2001 » John Heyer, Australian director and producer (b. 1916)
• 2001 » Stanley Mosk, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1912)

• 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.
• February 13 » The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre).
• February 29 » Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes; all 123 passengers and crew die.
• July 28 » The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.
• August 31 » Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
• September 7 » Rapper and hip hop artist Tupac Shakur is fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. He succumbs to his injuries six days later.
• November 21 » Humberto Vidal explosion: Thirty-three people die when a Humberto Vidal shoe shop in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico explodes.

The temperature on June 19, 1996 was between 11.4 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.