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• Claire Plat, Rotterdam

• Dick van Duijn (33), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agatha Diana van Kerkvoorde (77), Nijmegen
• Antonius Johannes SCHOEMAKER (71), Ulft, Oude IJsselstreek (NL)
• Ernestina Rosas (68), San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Evertje van de Pol (84), Barneveld
• Christina Koele (63), Ommen
• Cornelia Kap (63)
• David Longoria Longoria (73), Austin, Travis, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Felix Johannes Hubertus Bruijnen (90), Panningen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Frans Eugene Gaston Maria Joseph Ghislain Graaf van Lichtervelde (61), Brugelette, Henegouwen

• 1982 » Issah Gabriel Ahmed, Ghanaian footballer
• 1982 » Rian Wallace, American football player
• 1983 » Custódio Castro, Portuguese footballer
• 1983 » Pedram Javaheri, Iranian-American meteorologist and journalist
• 1983 » Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean model and actress († 2009)
• 1984 » Dmitri Kruglov, Estonian footballer
• 1984 » Sarah Hagan, American actress
• 1985 » Tim Bridgman, English race car driver
• 1986 » Giannis Kontoes, Greek footballer
• 1986 » Mark Ballas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, dancer, and actor

• 1974 » Duke Ellington, American pianist and composer (b. 1899)
• 1976 » Denise Pelletier, Canadian actress (b. 1923)
• 1979 » Ernest Bullock, English organist, composer, and educator (b. 1890)
• 1981 » Herbert Müller, Swiss race car driver (b. 1940)
• 1984 » Vince McMahon Sr., American wrestling promoter and businessman, founded WWE (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Freddie Frith, English motorcycle road racer (b. 1909)
• 1990 » Arthur Villeneuve, Canadian painter (b. 1910)
• 1991 » Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
• 1992 » Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese race car driver (b. 1956)
• 1995 » Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)

1. Mark
2. Jeroen
3. Jan
4. Peter
5. Michael
6. Martijn
7. Wouter
8. Johannes
9. Robert
10. Pieter
11. David
12. Hendrik
13. Bart
14. Thomas
15. Erik
16. Vincent

1. Linda
2. Maria
3. Jessica
4. Anna
5. Kim
6. Wendy
7. Esther
8. Laura
9. Johanna
10. Nicole
11. Sarah
12. Maaike
13. Sandra
14. Suzanne
15. Jennifer
16. Bianca

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
• February 3 » John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
• March 6 » In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners.
• June 8 » Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
• September 20 » A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.
• November 19 » San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
• December 20 » The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying over one million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines.

The temperature on May 24, 1984 was between 9.3 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (29%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.