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• Berend Jan Beltman, Barchem († 1992)
• Elizabeth Hoezen, Rotterdam († 2005)
• Charles Robert Galjaard, Newton Middle, Massachusetts († 2005)
• Cornelis Albertus Schulte, Erica, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2014)
• Franciscus van Esch, Olland († 1982)
• Bobette C Coffman, Charleston, Coles County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1985)
• Charles William Trentz, Randolph, Nebraska, VS († 2013)
• Cornelia Johanna Huberdina van de Pol, Goirle († 1944)
• Elisabeth Hoezen, Rotterdam († 2005)
• Andries Roelof van der Heide, Groningen, Nederland († 1934)

• August Anton Maria Sträter (66), Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam,North Holland,Netherlands
• Aart van Beek (23), Putten zie Gelderland-(Gelderse Vallei) Putten
• Adriaan van Wagenberg (76), Udenhout
• Carl Friedrich Anton van der Sluijs (55), Guerssey, Victoria Hospital
• Aaltje Jans de Vries (75), Wouterswoude
• Adriana Sara de Rijke (61), Middelburg
• Antonie VERHOEVEN (62), Dordrecht
• Christiaan Binnendijk (72), Gouda, Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham van Spronsen (29), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• August Martinus Johannes Sevenhuysen (45)

• 1931 » Phil Bruns, American actor and stuntman († 2012)
• 1932 » Maury Allen, American journalist, actor, and author († 2010)
• 1933 » Bunk Gardner, American musician
• 1933 » Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, English lawyer and judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
• 1934 » Manfred Durniok, German film producer, director and screenwriter († 2003)
• 1935 » Faisal II of Iraq, the last King of Iraq (d.1958)
• 1935 » Luis Suárez Miramontes, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1936 » Engelbert Humperdinck, English singer and pianist
• 1936 » Michael Rabin, American violinist († 1972)
• 1936 » Norma Aleandro, Argentinian actress, director, and screenwriter

• 1915 » Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (b. 1870)
• 1918 » Jüri Vilms, Estonian lawyer and politician (b. 1889)
• 1925 » Antun Branko Šimić, Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian poet (b. 1898)
• 1925 » Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (b. 1848)
• 1927 » Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister for Military Affairs (b. 1879)
• 1941 » Penelope Delta, Greek author (b. 1874)
• 1945 » Joe Corbett, American baseball player and journalist (b. 1875)
• 1945 » Martin Bormann, German politician (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Dorothea Binz, German SS officer (b. 1920)

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 » German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
• April 12 » The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
• May 19 » Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
• May 28 » Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
• July 25 » The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
• October 9 » An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.

The temperature on May 2, 1934 was between 9.7 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.