About the day » Thursday May 31, 1990Calender converter

• Arend Klein (79)
• Alexander van der Knaap (64), Vlaardingen
• Albertje Geerlings (91)
• Antonius Hendrikus Johannes Eggenhuizen (59), Netherlands
• Antonia Adriana Rompa (76), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Agnitha Rijksen (92), St.Oedenrode
• Arie Izaksz Stolk (74), Westvoorne
• Arie Stolk (74), Westvoorne Z.H
• Arie Stolk (74), Rockanje Zuid Holland Netherlands
• Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr. (72), Washington, District of Columbia, United States

• 1984 » Andrew Bailey, American baseball player
• 1984 » Milorad Čavić, Serbian swimmer
• 1984 » Nate Robinson, American basketball player
• 1985 » Jordy Nelson, American football player
• 1986 » Robert Gesink, Dutch cyclist
• 1989 » Marco Reus, German footballer
• 1990 » Erik Karlsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1992 » Laura Ikauniece, Latvian heptathlete
• 1992 » Michaël Bournival, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1996 » Normani Korde, American singer

• 1985 » Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer and author (b. 1921)
• 1986 » James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1986 » Jane Frank, American painter and sculptor (b. 1918)
• 1987 » John Abraham, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 1989 » C. L. R. James, Trinidadian journalist and historian (b. 1901)
• 1989 » Owen Lattimore, American author and academic (b. 1900)
• 1994 » Herva Nelli, Italian-American soprano (b. 1909)
• 1994 » Uzay Heparı, Turkish actor, producer, and composer (b. 1969)
• 1995 » Stanley Elkin, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1930)
• 1996 » Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author (b. 1920)

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. Bas
14. Robin
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.
• March 11 » Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
• March 28 » United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
• June 20 » Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
• July 11 » Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins.
• September 20 » South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.
• October 3 » The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The temperature on May 31, 1990 was between 6.9 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.