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• Adrianus Martinus Maria van Nierop, Schipluiden
• K. Hoogendoorn († 1991)
• Robin Edelbroek, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Roxanne Hameleers, Antwerpen († 1995)

• Clarence Leland Rasmussen (89), Ogden, Weber, Utah, Amerika
• Alberta Anna Maria Heij (85), Bussum, Nederland
• Beeke Beeksma (65), Yogyakarta, Indonesië
• Dirk Middelburg (71), 's-Gravenzande, Nederland
• Catherina Jacoba Burger (92), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aldert van Hall (77), Amsterdam
• Arend Booij (78), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aniela Brzozowski (68), Culemborg
• Arvel Luey Breshers (74), Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States of America
• Constant Adolph Bentinck tot Buckhorst (83), 's-Gravenhage

• 1989 » Mose Masoe, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1989 » Rain Raadik, Estonian basketball player
• 1989 » Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer
• 1990 » Charlie Gubb, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 » Fabian Giefer, German footballer
• 1990 » Guido Pella, Argentine tennis player
• 1990 » Katrina Hart, English runner
• 1991 » Abigail Raye, Canadian field hockey player
• 1991 » Adil Omar, Pakistani rapper and music producer
• 1991 » Johanna Konta, Australian-English tennis player

• 1985 » Abe Burrows, American director, composer, and author (b. 1910)
• 1987 » Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, sociologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1992 » Lawrence Welk, American accordion player and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 1995 » Toe Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Kevin Gilbert, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1966)
• 1999 » Bruce Fairbairn, Canadian trumpet player and producer (b. 1949)
• 1999 » Lembit Oll, Estonian chess Grandmaster (b. 1966)
• 2000 » Donald Coggan, English archbishop (b. 1909)
• 2001 » Frank G. Slaughter, American physician and author (b. 1908)
• 2001 » Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (b. 1928)

1. Thomas
2. Jan
3. Patrick
4. Jeroen
5. Kevin
6. Michael
7. Dennis
8. Martijn
9. Mark
10. Cornelis
11. Tim
12. Niels
13. Rick
14. Robin
15. David
16. Robert

1. Laura
2. Lisa
3. Anne
4. Joyce
5. Maria
6. Anna
7. Jessica
8. Michelle
9. Amy
10. Stephanie
11. Kim
12. Nicole
13. Melissa
14. Sarah
15. Johanna
16. Esther

• 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 15.0 million citizens.
• June 12 » Kokkadichcholai massacre: The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village of Kokkadichcholai near the eastern province town of Batticaloa.
• June 20 » German Bundestag votes to move seat of government from the former West German capital of Bonn to the present capital Berlin.
• August 9 » The Italian prosecuting magistrate Antonino Scopelliti is murdered by the 'Ndrangheta on behalf of the Sicilian Mafia while preparing the government's case in the final appeal of the Maxi Trial.
• September 21 » Armenia gains independence from the Soviet Union.
• October 7 » Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb, Croatia.
• December 31 » All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date five days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.

The temperature on May 17, 1991 was between 3.4 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.