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• Geertruida Timmer, Doornspijk († 2006)
• Cornelia Geertruida Scheepens, Vleuten († 2004)
• Annie Aarts, Stein, Limburg, Netherlands († 1980)
• Geesjen Bellinga, Hasselt († 2015)
• Esther Johanna SMITH († 1992)
• Bernardina Johanna Peverelli, 's-Gravenhage († 2013)
• Arthur W H Sladden, Hollingbourne, Kent, England († 2016)
• Bernardina Johanna (Diny) Peverelli, Den Haag, Nederland († 2013)
• Barabara Ann Marsh, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, England († 1978)
• Geertruida Hendrika ten Donkelaar, Maastricht († 2009)

• Anna Karsjens van den Berg (75), Ferwerderadeel
• Carrie A. McConnell (67), Veedersburg, Fountain County, Indiana
• Albert Lee (63), Parish Of Saint Andrew, Jamaica
• Adriana van Eekelen (57), Halsteren
• Antoon Verhoeven (67), Oijen en Teeffelen
• Adele Mathilde De-Bode (57), St.-Pieters-Kapelle
• Annechien Kalk (58), Groningen
• Catharina de Kort (86), Vught
• Augusta Marie Albertine CORNETTE (78), Sint-Michiels Brugge
• Cecila Wilhelmina Holtkamp (61), Delft (Z-H)

• 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)
• 1934 » Antony Walker, English general
• 1934 » Kenneth O. Morgan, Welsh historian and author
• 1935 » Floyd Smith, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1936 » Karl Lehmann, German cardinal († 2018)
• 1937 » Yvonne Craig, American ballet dancer and actress († 2015)

• 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)
• 1953 » Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer (b. 1910)

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

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

• 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
• January 26 » The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
• February 23 » Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
• July 20 » Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
• July 25 » The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
• August 19 » The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
• November 11 » The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.

The temperature on May 16, 1934 was between 4.9 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.