About the day » Thursday July 4, 1996Calender converter

• Stan van Bemmel, Woerden († 1997)
• laurens wijnhoven, helden-beringe

• Cornelia Markus (90)
• Derk Jan Wensink (69), Harderwijk
• Catharina Margaretha Johanna Ultee (85), Rottevalle, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Magdalena Treintje But (81), Vlissingen
• Charles, Ferdinand Ysewin (90), La Chapelle d'Armentières, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Friesland, Nederland
• Anny Peels (63), Luyksgestel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna, Josephina Goetschalckx (83)
• barend de goede (91), hasselt
• Christina Loonstra (35), Winsum, Groningen, Nederland
• Bertus de Graaf (77)

• 1989 » Benjamin Büchel, Liechtensteiner footballer
• 1990 » Ihar Yasinski, Belarusian footballer
• 1990 » Jake Gardiner, American ice hockey player
• 1990 » Naoki Yamada, Japanese footballer
• 1990 » Richard Mpong, Ghanaian footballer
• 1992 » Ángel Romero, Paraguayan footballer
• 1992 » Óscar Romero, Paraguayan footballer
• 1993 » Tom Barkhuizen, English footballer
• 1995 » Post Malone, American singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer
• 1999 » Moa Kikuchi, Japanese musician

• 1991 » Victor Chang, Chinese-Australian surgeon and physician (b. 1936)
• 1992 » Astor Piazzolla, Argentinian bandoneon player and composer (b. 1921)
• 1993 » Bona Arsenault, Canadian historian, genealogist, and politician (b. 1903)
• 1994 » Joey Marella, American wrestling referee (b. 1964)
• 1995 » Bob Ross, American painter and television host (b. 1942)
• 1995 » Eva Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and singer (b. 1919)
• 1997 » Charles Kuralt, American journalist (b. 1934)
• 1997 » John Zachary Young, English zoologist and neurophysiologist (b. 1907)
• 1999 » Leo Garel, American illustrator and educator (b. 1917)
• 2000 » Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1919)

• 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.
• June 4 » The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
• July 5 » Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
• November 7 » NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
• November 12 » A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.
• November 25 » An ice storm strikes the central U.S., killing 26 people. A powerful windstorm affects Florida and winds gust over 90mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers.

The temperature on July 4, 1996 was between 13.3 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 6.3 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.