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• Tessa Dilana (Tessa) Bus, 's-Hertogenbosch
• Timo Augustinus Hendrikus Meijer, Gendringen

• Emma Roberta Curtis (84), Mason City, Cerro Gordo, Iowa, United States
• Alice Perquy (83), Oostduikerke, Region Flamande, Belgique
• Élisabeth ORSI (96), La Valette-du-Var, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
• Arend Brons (76)
• Cornelia Maria Hoogervorst (90), Noordwijk, ZH, Nederland
• Cornelia Maria Hoogervorst (90), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Keizer (71)
• Donald Kimsey (83)
• Elisabeth Maria Huisman (85)
• van der Mey (39), Sassenheim, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1985 » Oliver Sin, Hungarian painter
• 1986 » Ahmed Hamada, Egyptian race car driver
• 1986 » Kevin Anderson, South African tennis player
• 1988 » Taeyang, South Korean singer
• 1990 » Dimitri Daeseleire, Belgian footballer
• 1990 » Josh Starling, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Yuya Osako, Japanese footballer
• 1992 » Adwoa Aboah, British fashion model
• 1993 » Jessica Watson, Australian sailor
• 1993 » Stuart Percy, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1981 » Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 » William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Mahdi Amel, Lebanese journalist, poet, and academic (b. 1936)
• 1989 » Dorothy Ruth, American horse breeder and author (b. 1921)
• 1990 » Jill Ireland, English actress (b. 1936)
• 1995 » Alexander Godunov, Russian-American ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
• 1995 » Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, Irish ufologist and historian (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor (b. 1903)
• 1995 » Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933)
• 1998 » Obaidullah Aleem, Indian-Pakistani poet and author (b. 1939)

1. Thomas
2. Jan
3. Michael
4. Johannes
5. Mark
6. Kevin
7. Tim
8. Jeroen
9. Dennis
10. Nick
11. Rick
12. Alexander
13. Robin
14. Bas
15. Robert
16. Wouter

1. Laura
2. Anne
3. Anna
4. Linda
5. Maria
6. Jessica
7. Charlotte
8. Samantha
9. Sanne
10. Sarah
11. Chantal
12. Johanna
13. Stephanie
14. Kim
15. Michelle
16. Daniëlle

• 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.9 million citizens.
• February 14 » The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.
• July 1 » German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
• August 7 » First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.
• September 2 » Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
• September 5 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.
• November 17 » Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts.

The temperature on May 18, 1990 was between 5.0 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.