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• Marie Anne Van Eenaeme, Leuven († 1997)
• Michaela Smit, Emmen

• Antonius Hellemons (91), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• * Adrian Phillipina 't Lam (72), Vuren
• Anneke Martens (82), Deurne
• Alma Pauline Volk (76), Plymouth, Marshall, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Barr Vaness NEILSON (86), Holladay, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America
• Christian Andrew Geels (84), Sanborn, O'Brien County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Barbara Rose Kraft (60), Evelth St Louis County,MN
• Catharina Maria Petronella Coleta Spierings (51), Tilburg
• Abraham Schipper (63), Beverwijk, Nederland
• Antonia Johanna Pelgrim (71), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1985 » Eleanor Catton, Canadian-New Zealand author
• 1985 » Eric Adjetey Anang, Ghanaian sculptor and carpenter
• 1987 » Gürhan Gürsoy, Turkish footballer
• 1987 » Matthew Connolly, English footballer
• 1988 » Karl Alzner, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Pia Wurtzbach, Filipina actress, model, and Miss Universe 2015 titleholder
• 1991 » Maximiliano Uggè, Italian footballer
• 1991 » Oriol Romeu, Spanish footballer
• 1993 » Ben Platt, American actor
• 1997 » Tosin Adarabioyo, English Footballer

• 1991 » Dr. Seuss, American children's book writer, poet, and illustrator (b. 1904)
• 1993 » Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1913)
• 1993 » Ian Stuart Donaldson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1957)
• 1994 » Barry Bishop, American mountaineer, photographer, and scholar (b. 1932)
• 1996 » Zeki Müren, Turkish singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
• 1998 » Jeff Moss, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1942)
• 2002 » Mike Webster, American football player (b. 1952)
• 2002 » Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian politician (b. 1953)
• 2003 » Lyle Bettger, American actor (b. 1915)
• 2003 » Rosalie Allen, American singer and radio host (b. 1924)

• 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.
• March 25 » The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
• June 25 » The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia kills 19 U.S. servicemen.
• July 25 » In a military coup in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposes Sylvestre Ntibantunganya.
• July 29 » The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad.
• November 19 » Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
• November 21 » Humberto Vidal explosion: Thirty-three people die when a Humberto Vidal shoe shop in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico explodes.

The temperature on September 24, 1996 was between 4.0 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.