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• Cornelia Jannetje Andriesse, Scherpenisse, Zeeland, Nederland († 1996)
• Cornelia Duijzer, Gorinchem († 1992)
• Helena Francisca Maria Luijten, Hoogeloon, Hapert en Casteren († 1938)
• Bernardina Gesina Carolina Maria Striekwold, Gendringen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1936)
• Isabella Elisabeth Maria SCHOEMAKER, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1936)
• Geert Mulder, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1981)
• Helena Francisca Maria Luijten, Hapert († 1938)
• Eduardus Johannes Albertus Meussen, Wierden.Overijssel,Netherlands († 1982)
• Herman Joost Backer, Schiebroek, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1996)
• Anna Maria Hubertina Sillen, Swalmen († 2001)

• Adeleida Meta Christine Bauermann (79), Bunderhee, Ostfriesland, Niedersachsen
• Adriana Klein (52), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Leendert van Raan (1), Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Jacob Damming (79), Enschede
• Agatha Doets (9), Beverwijk
• Anna Catharina JORDAAN (76), Berlin, Waterberg
• Anna Lieste (76), Haarlem
• Adrian Wilhelmina Van den Thillart (72), 's-Hertogenbosch,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje ( Aaltien ) van Sleen (84), Steenwijk
• Alida Geertruida Adriana Koekenbier (51), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1931 » Louis Gambaccini, American government official († 2018)
• 1931 » Willie Mays, American baseball player and coach
• 1932 » Ahmet Haxhiu, Kosovan activist († 1994)
• 1932 » Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, English lieutenant and politician († 2020)
• 1934 » Richard Shelby, American lawyer and politician
• 1937 » Rubin Carter, American-Canadian boxer († 2014)
• 1938 » Jean Garon, Canadian economist, lawyer, and politician († 2014)
• 1939 » Chet Allen, American child actor († 1984)
• 1939 » Eddie C. Campbell, American singer and guitarist († 2018)
• 1942 » Ariel Dorfman, Argentinian author, playwright, and academic

• 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)
• 1959 » Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1961 » Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)
• 1963 » Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1881)

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

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

• 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
• March 8 » Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
• April 5 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
• May 28 » Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
• July 19 » Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain - mobilizing workers' militias against the Nationalist forces.
• August 3 » A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
• August 10 » Spanish Civil War: The Regional Defence Council of Aragon is dissolved by the Spanish Republic.

The temperature on May 6, 1936 was between 10.6 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.