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• Brandon Slooyer, Vancouver
• Sky Gray Raven Heurta

• Andreas Hubertus Broers (81), Valkenburg, Limburg, Netherlands
• Aaltje VAN DER MOLEN (64)
• Anna Gertrud (Ouders:Peter -josef Wölterkes, Christine Wölterkes (geb. Kirchhofer)) Wölterkes (86), Mönchengladbach-Hardt
• Agina Berendina IDEMA (92)
• Anthonius Aloysius Rasing (75), Deventer
• Berendina Reinten (92), Velp
• Antje Maartje Rike (86)
• Augusta Celina Verlinden (89), Brugge
• Arie Herman Opperman (63)
• Arie Herman Opperman (63), Heteren (gd)

• 1965 » Kevin Farley, American screenwriter
• 1967 » Russell E. Morris, Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of St Andrews
• 1971 » Mark Feuerstein, American actor, director, and producer
• 1977 » Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer
• 1981 » Rachel Held Evans, American Christian author
• 1982 » Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
• 1983 » Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player; winner of six Grand Slam tournament titles.
• 1984 » Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer
• 1989 » Timea Bacsinszky, Swiss tennis player
• 1997 » Jelena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player

• 1987 » Alexander Iolas, Egyptian-American art collector (b. 1907)
• 1997 » George Turner, Australian author and critic (b. 1916)
• 1997 » Karen Wetterhahn, American chemist and academic (b. 1948)
• 1998 » Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
• 1998 » Sani Abacha, Nigerian general and politician, 10th President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
• 2000 » Frédéric Dard, French author and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2000 » Jeff MacNelly, American cartoonist (b. 1948)
• 2001 » Alex de Renzy, American director and producer (b. 1935)
• 2004 » Charles Hyder, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1930)
• 2004 » Mack Jones, American baseball player (b. 1938)

• 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).
• May 6 » The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
• June 10 » Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
• August 31 » Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
• September 24 » Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
• October 2 » The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.

The temperature on June 8, 1996 was between 17.6 °C and 27.6 °C and averaged 21.7 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.