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• Cor de Bruijn, Oeffelt († 1992)
• Annie Houben, Kerkrade († 1992)
• Constantinus Franciscus Houben, Echt († 2006)
• Adriana Cornelia Kremers, Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2005)
• Arend Hendrik Vosman († 1947)
• Catharina Maria Vaars, Lisse
• van Rossum, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1925)
• André Joseph Van Brabant, Klerken West-Vlaanderen België († 1926)
• Antonius Johannes Deterink, Reutum (Tubbergen) († 1996)
• Cornelia Johanna Daemen (Geerts), Rijsbergen, Nederland († 2004)

• Antje Fortuin (80), The Hague, The Hague, South Holland, The Netherlands
• Anna Maria Kwak (54), Apeldoorn
• Aart Budding (0), Ede, Nederland
• Alfred Napoleon Mainville (65), Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island
• Adrianus Marinus Otten (51), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abram Antonie CAMERLING (80), Dordrecht
• Angeline Kappers (35)
• Arnoldus Adriaan Pit (71), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anne Wiebo Tjittesz Tiersma (20)
• Antonius Hurkens (32), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1921 » Erich Fried, Austrian-German author, poet, and translator († 1988)
• 1922 » Camille Laurin, Canadian psychiatrist and politician, 7th Deputy Premier of Quebec († 1999)
• 1923 » Harry Watson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 2002)
• 1924 » Denny Wright, English guitarist, composer, and producer († 1992)
• 1924 » Nestor Basterretxea, Spanish painter and sculptor († 2014)
• 1924 » Patricia Helen Kennedy, American socialite, activist, and author († 2006)
• 1926 » Gilles Grégoire, Canadian politician, co-founded the Parti Québécois († 2006)
• 1929 » John Taylor, English bishop and theologian († 2016)
• 1929 » Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2007)
• 1929 » Rosemary Cramp, English archaeologist and academic

• 1902 » Bret Harte, American author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1905 » Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (b. 1831)
• 1907 » Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. 1830)
• 1910 » Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
• 1919 » L. Frank Baum, American novelist (b. 1856)
• 1939 » Konstantin Somov, Russian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
• 1949 » Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1951 » Élie Cartan, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Maria Montessori, Italian-Dutch physician and educator (b. 1870)
• 1959 » Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (b. 1881)

• 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
• January 5 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
• February 2 » Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
• April 26 » Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
• May 14 » Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
• May 15 » Al-Insaniyyah, the first Arabic communist newspaper, is founded.
• August 5 » Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.

The temperature on May 6, 1925 was between 4.9 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.