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• Albertha Hendrika Kollenhof (84), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arie Stolk (74), Westvoorne Z.H
• Anna Maria Ven (87), Oost-Souburg
• Antonia Petronella Maria Brekelmans (76), Waalwijk
• Archibald Bulloch ROOSEVELT (72), Washington D.C. U.S.A
• Albert Engelbosch (72), Sint-Truiden, België
• Arend Jakob Leutscher (41), Leidschendam
• Archibald Roosevelt Jr. (72)
• Antonius Henricus Maria (Tom) van Mierlo (58), Klimmen
• Bep Termeer (64), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 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)

• 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.
• January 20 » Protests in Azerbaijan, part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union.
• February 13 » German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
• March 31 » Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
• August 23 » Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
• October 13 » Syrian forces attack free areas of Lebanon, removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
• November 13 » In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day.

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.