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• Cato Rachel Boas, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• bernardina theodora maria wilms, helden
• Antonius Johannes de RUITER, Dalmsholte († 1930)
• Cornelis Bakker, Broek op L'dijk († 1988)
• Aukje Stubbe, Groningen († 2009)
• Claude S Little Jr, Wheeler, Gratiot, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1988)
• Eduard George van Oel, Zeist, Utrecht, The Netherlands († 2017)
• Beverly Joan Miles, Clear Lake († 2019)
• Albert Veldhuis, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1989)
• Andries Simon Springer, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1944)

• "Pierre" Corneille Gabriel Benoît Marie Joseph Ghislain Iweins d'Eeckhoutte (0), Brielen, Ypres, Belgique
• Alfred Graaf Tyskewicz (47), Verneuil
• Adriana Raas (86), Ovezande
• Albert Koes (68), Twekkelo, Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
• albert hoving (hoven) (74), emmen
• Antonius Petrus van Gils (0), Zevenbergen
• Anne Marie Philippine Beaurieux (53), Parijs (Frankrijk)
• Anaise Maria Josephe TUYTTENS (76), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antoon Nijhuis (83), Hengelo
• Albertus Christianus de Poot (73), Lith, Noord-Brabant, NL

• 1928 » Billy Martin, American baseball player and coach († 1989)
• 1929 » Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist, and feminist († 2012)
• 1929 » Betty Carter, American singer-songwriter († 1998)
• 1929 » Claude Morin, Canadian academic and politician
• 1929 » John Conyers, American lawyer and politician († 2019)
• 1930 » Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist and composer († 2000)
• 1931 » Hana Brady, Jewish-Czech Holocaust victim (d.1944)
• 1931 » K. Natwar Singh, Indian scholar and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs
• 1931 » Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., American soldier and politician, 85th Governor of Connecticut
• 1931 » Vujadin Boškov, Serbian footballer, coach, and manager († 2014)

• 1913 » Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)
• 1926 » Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan (b. 1861)
• 1936 » Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (b. 1860)
• 1938 » Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b. 1870)
• 1943 » Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist and academic (b. 1865)
• 1944 » George Ade, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1946 » Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (b. 1890)
• 1947 » Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1947 » Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (b. 1903)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Adrianus
9. Petrus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Antonius
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Margaretha
15. Grietje
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
• February 16 » The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
• February 18 » While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
• March 31 » The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
• May 24 » Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
• September 8 » 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
• October 3 » The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded.

The temperature on May 16, 1930 was between 9.1 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.