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• Lucy Kira Georgia Wells, Boston, Lincolnshire († 1996)
• Petrus Geradus Marinus van de Wijdeven, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1996)
• Line Klomberg, Rotterdam

• Egberta Croese (72), Den Haag
• Cornelis Anton de Grave (60), Texel
• Barbertje van Zalinge (83), Den Burg
• Albert Roelof Hendrik Mur (83), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aartje van Die (59)
• Berend Mars (82)
• Clemence Louise Martens (68), Sint-Lambrechts-Herk, België
• Albert Roelof Hendrik Mur (83), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Dorothy Elizabeth Halverson (78)
• Bas Kastelein, Wassenaar

• 1991 » James Rodríguez, Colombian footballer
• 1991 » Salih Dursun, Turkish footballer
• 1992 » Bartosz Bereszyński, Polish footballer
• 1993 » Kurt Capewell, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 » Kanako Momota, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1995 » Jordyn Wieber, American gymnast
• 1995 » Luke Shaw, English footballer
• 1996 » Jordan Romero, American mountaineer
• 1996 » Moussa Dembélé, French footballer
• 1997 » Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani-English activist, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1992 » Caroline Pafford Miller, American journalist and author (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Dan Eldon, English photographer and journalist (b. 1970)
• 1994 » Eila Campbell, English geographer and cartographer (b. 1915)
• 1996 » John Chancellor, American journalist (b. 1927)
• 1997 » François Furet, French historian and author (b. 1927)
• 1998 » Arkady Ostashev, Soviet/Russian scientist and engineer (b. 1925)
• 1998 » Jimmy Driftwood, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (b. 1907)
• 1998 » Serge Lemoyne, Canadian painter (b. 1941)
• 1999 » Rajendra Kumar, Bollywood actor, (b. 1921)
• 2000 » Charles Merritt, Canadian colonel and politician, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1908)

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. Hendrik
15. Max
16. Daan

1. Laura
2. Lisa
3. Anna
4. Jessica
5. Emma
6. Kim
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 17 » The Czech Republic applies for membership of the European Union.
• February 29 » Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes; all 123 passengers and crew die.
• April 18 » In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Qana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.
• May 13 » Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
• July 17 » TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
• November 5 » Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan.

The temperature on July 12, 1996 was between 12.2 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.