About the day » Tuesday May 22, 1945Calender converter

• Christiaan Adriaan Maria Opgenoort, Tilburg († 2014)
• Pieter van Duijvenbode, Katwijk († 2018)
• Catharina Maria Hart 't, Delft († 1945)
• Ronald Marciano Franciska
• Janna van Werven, Oldebroek († 2020)
• Jan Guillaume van der Leer, Vaals(LB) († 1952)
• Cornelis Dobma, Nieuwer-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1947)
• Louis Andreas Meister († 2013)
• Willem Albert van der Luijt, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Mien van der Heijden, Bladel en Netersel († 1987)

• Adrianus Beckmann (32), Frankfurt, Duitsland
• Aaltjen Muller- (84), Enschede, Nederland
• Catharina Wetselaar (61), Rijnsburg,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Beckmann (32), Frankfurt (Duitsland)
• Aaltje Morren (58), Oldebroek, Nederland
• (Joseph) Léon LAFONTAINE (66)
• Catharina Wetselaar (61), Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arendje Plug (4), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adelia "Delia" C. Smith (83), Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Margaretha de Moulin (53), Zeist, Utrecht (NL.)

• 1942 » Roger Brown, American basketball player († 1997)
• 1943 » Betty Williams, Northern Irish peace activist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2020)
• 1943 » Tommy John, American baseball player
• 1944 » John Flanagan, Australian fantasy author
• 1945 » Bob Katter, Australian politician
• 1946 » Andrei Marga, Romanian philosopher, political scientist, politician
• 1946 » George Best, Northern Irish footballer and manager († 2005)
• 1946 » Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager († 2015)
• 1946 » Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Russian-Ukrainian astronomer
• 1946 » Michael Green, English physicist and academic

• 1932 » Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1852)
• 1933 » Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav, Mongolian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1894)
• 1938 » William Glackens, American painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
• 1939 » Ernst Toller, German playwright and author (b. 1893)
• 1939 » Jiří Mahen, Czech author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 1954 » Chief Bender, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1884)
• 1965 » Christopher Stone, English radio host (b. 1882)
• 1966 » Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• 1967 » Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911)
• 1967 » Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902)

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

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

• 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 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
• February 5 » World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.
• February 16 » World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
• March 15 » World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia.
• March 19 » World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USSFranklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the US under her own power.
• September 2 » World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USSMissouri in Tokyo Bay.
• October 12 » World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.

The temperature on May 22, 1945 was between 8.7 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.