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• Max van Dusschoten, Nijmegen († 1996)
• anouk janssen, venray (ziekenhuis)
• Jacoba Leintje de Voogd, Kruiningen
• Tim van Dusschoten, Nijmegen († 1996)
• Max van Dusschoten, Nijmegen († 1996)
• Tim van Dusschoten, Nijmegen († 1996)

• Andre Tielemanus Cornelus de Pinth (68), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Bernhard Markfried Theodoor Kleijer (26), Barneveld, Gld, NL
• Emo Wolters (72), Feanwâlden, Nederland
• Elvira Anna VANCRAYBEX (87), Luik
• Femmigje Botter (88), Meppel, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Clara Adrian (87), Bew Westminster (Greater Vancouver), British Columbia, Canada
• Eduardo Ferreira de Magalhães (65), Póvoa do Varzim, Portugal
• Bruno STEVERLYNCK (68), Cape town (S.A.),, France
• Cornelis Govardus Leijten (76), Breda
• Agatha Elizabeth Ros (88), Heemstede, NH, Nederland

• 1986 » Mathieu Razanakolona, Canadian skier
• 1988 » Rob Kwiet, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Nacer Chadli, Belgian footballer
• 1990 » Ima Bohush, Belarusian tennis player
• 1994 » Laremy Tunsil, American football player
• 1994 » Laura Pigossi, Brazilian tennis player
• 1995 » Kristaps Porziņģis, Latvian basketball player
• 1996 » Keston Hiura, American baseball player
• 1996 » Simone Manuel, American swimmer
• 1999 » Mark Lee, Korean-Canadian singer

• 1990 » Edwin Richfield, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 1990 » Norman Maclean, American short story writer and essayist (b. 1902)
• 1992 » Michel Berger, French singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
• 1996 » Michel Debré, French lawyer and politician, 150th Prime Minister of France (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Somalian general and politician, 5th President of Somalia (b. 1934)
• 1996 » Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1917)
• 1997 » Fela Kuti, Nigerian singer-songwriter and activist (b. 1938)
• 1997 » William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1914)
• 1998 » Shari Lewis, American television host and puppeteer (b. 1933)
• 1999 » Willie Morris, American writer (b. 1934)

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

1. Laura
2. Lisa
3. Anna
4. Jessica
5. Kim
6. Emma
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.
• February 16 » A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
• July 3 » British Prime Minister John Major announced the Stone of Scone would be returned to Scotland.
• September 5 » Hurricane Fran makes landfall near Cape Fear, North Carolina as a Category 3 storm with 115mph sustained winds. Fran caused over $3 billion in damage and killed 27 people.
• 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.
• December 22 » Airborne Express Flight 827 crashes near Narrows, Virginia, killing all six people on board.

The temperature on August 2, 1996 was between 8.8 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.