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• Adrianus Jozephus Reus, Waalwijk († 2012)
• Beatrice OBERHOFF, Fort Bend TX (USA) († 1934)
• cornelia wilhelmina (cor) komhoff, helden-panningen
• Dale Gordon Wooldridge († 1956)
• Adriaantje Lodder, Slikkerveer († 2001)
• Egbert Hofman, Onstwedde († 2012)
• Frieda Sophie Kloosterhuis, Ten Boer (Wittewierum) († 2020)
• Elisabeth Pepping († 2020)
• Barend Blom, Geldermalsen (West Betuwe) (GL) († 2008)
• Cornelis Jacobus Nielen, Wormerveer († 1995)

• Cornelis Van Genderen (72), De Bilt, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Agnes van Gerven (64), Waalre,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Melania VAN HOOF (76), Duffel, Provincie Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België
• Arie Snel (26), Rotterdam, Nederland
• akke sijmens de vries (65)
• Anna Godawits (75)
• Antonius HELLEMONS (45), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maaike van Druten (65), Lienden,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana van der ELST (69), Dordrecht
• Agnes van Gerven (64), Waalre

• 1930 » Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, musician, and producer
• 1931 » John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2019)
• 1931 » Shirley Verrett, American soprano and actress († 2010)
• 1932 » Ed Lincoln, Brazilian pianist, bassist, and composer († 2012)
• 1932 » Jay Miner, American computer scientist and engineer († 1994)
• 1933 » Henry B. Eyring, American religious leader, educator, and author
• 1934 » Jim Hutton, American actor († 1979)
• 1935 » Jim Bolger, New Zealand businessman and politician, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1938 » John Prescott, British sailor and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1938 » Johnny Paycheck, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2003)

• 1908 » Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian author, poet, and politician (b. 1839)
• 1909 » Thomas Price, Welsh-Australian politician, 24th Premier of South Australia (b. 1852)
• 1910 » Elizabeth Blackwell, English-American physician and educator (b. 1821)
• 1931 » Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Willy Stöwer, German author and illustrator (b. 1864)
• 1945 » Odilo Globocnik, Italian-Austrian SS officer (b. 1904)
• 1954 » Antonis Benakis, Greek art collector and philanthropist, founded the Benaki Museum (b. 1873)
• 1957 » Leopold Staff, Polish poet and academic (b. 1878)
• 1957 » Stefanos Sarafis, Greek general and politician (b. 1890)
• 1960 » Willem Elsschot, Flemish author and poet (b. 1882)

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 15 » The 8.0 M_w  Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people.
• February 16 » The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
• June 30 » The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
• July 5 » "Bloody Thursday": Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
• November 23 » An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
• December 11 » Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.

The temperature on May 31, 1934 was between 7.0 °C and 24.9 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.