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• Cornelis Hogerbrugge (40), Amsterdam
• Albertina Cornelia Roozendaal (49)
• Alberta Zwart (88), Egmond aan Zee (gem. Bergen, NH)
• Alberta van Moerkerk (78)
• Albert van den Bergh (79), Breda
• Charles Swank (58), Omaha, Verenigde Staten
• Antonie Willem. van Hemmen (70), Rhoon
• Anna Alida Veldman (77), Dokkum
• Anna Jacoba Petronella Franken (79), Rotterdam
• Cornelis HOGERBRUGGE (40), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1991 » Rhys Bennett, English footballer
• 1992 » Cristiano Biraghi, Italian footballer
• 1992 » Kirani James, Grenadian sprinter
• 1992 » Woo Hye-lim, South Korean singer-songwriter
• 1993 » Mario Lemina, Gabonese footballer
• 1994 » Anna Smolina, Russian tennis player
• 1994 » Betty Cantrell, Miss America 2016
• 1995 » Nathan MacKinnon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1996 » Zendaya, American actress and singer
• 1997 » Jungkook, South Korean singer, songwriter and record producer

• 1989 » A. Bartlett Giamatti, American businessman and academic (b. 1938)
• 1989 » Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer (b. 1947)
• 1989 » Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer (b. 1894)
• 1990 » Edwin O. Reischauer, American scholar and diplomat (b. 1910)
• 1991 » Otl Aicher, German graphic designer and typographer (b. 1922)
• 1997 » Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
• 1998 » Cary Middlecoff, American golfer and sportscaster (b. 1921)
• 1998 » Józef Krupiński, Polish poet and author (b. 1930)
• 1998 » Osman F. Seden, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1999 » W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist and author (b. 1951)

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

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• The Netherlands had about 15.5 million citizens.
• January 27 » Germany first observes the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
• February 17 » NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
• February 17 » The 8.2 M_w  Biak earthquake shakes the Papua province of eastern Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A large tsunami followed, leaving one-hundred sixty-six people dead or missing and 423 injured.
• February 24 » Two civilian airplanes operated by the Miami-based group Brothers to the Rescue are shot down in international waters by the Cuban Air Force.
• 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.
• November 20 » A fire breaks out in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81.

The temperature on September 1, 1996 was between 7.5 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.