About the day » Saturday July 20, 1996Calender converter

• Anna Hubertina Angelina Huijnen (95)
• Constantia de Swert (90), Ranst (B)
• DENISE LOUISE PAULA FOUBERT (74), SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Adrianus Bernardus van Esch (70), Haaren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Euphemia Maria Assen (87), Slagharen
• Clasina Kloos (97)
• Cornelis van der Eijk (73), Lisse
• Eva M Schadt (82), Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Dieter Leo Witting (52), Twist
• Abraham Hulsinga (23), Noordwolde

• 1989 » Cristian Pasquato, Italian footballer
• 1989 » Javier Cortés, Mexican footballer
• 1990 » Lars Unnerstall, German footballer
• 1991 » Chiyoshōma Fujio, Mongolian sumo wrestler
• 1991 » Kira Kazantsev, Miss America 2015
• 1991 » Philipp Reiter, German mountaineer and runner
• 1991 » Ryan James, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Steven Adams, New Zealand basketball player
• 1995 » Moses Leota, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1996 » Ben Simmons, Australian basketball player

• 1989 » Forrest H. Anderson, American judge and politician, 17th Governor of Montana (b. 1913)
• 1990 » Herbert Turner Jenkins, American police officer (b. 1907)
• 1993 » Vince Foster, American lawyer and political figure (b. 1945)
• 1994 » Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (b. 1897)
• 1997 » M. E. H. Maharoof, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1939)
• 1998 » June Byers, American wrestler (b. 1922)
• 1999 » Sandra Gould, American actress (b. 1916)
• 2002 » Michalis Kritikopoulos, Greek footballer (b. 1946)
• 2003 » Nicolas Freeling, English author (b. 1927)
• 2004 » Lala Mara, Fijian politician (b. 1931)

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

1. Laura
2. Lisa
3. Anna
4. Jessica
5. Emma
6. Kim
7. Lotte
8. Iris
9. Charlotte
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.
• February 16 » A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
• May 21 » The ferry MVBukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.
• May 28 » U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
• July 3 » British Prime Minister John Major announced the Stone of Scone would be returned to Scotland.
• November 3 » Abdullah Çatlı, leader of the Turkish ultranationalist organization Grey Wolves, dies in the Susurluk car crash, leading to the resignation of the Turkish Interior Minister, Mehmet Ağar (a leader of the True Path Party, DYP).
• December 9 » Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topfree in Ontario, Canada.

The temperature on July 20, 1996 was between 8.3 °C and 25.7 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 15.0 hours of sunshine (93%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.