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• Roeltje Tabak, 's-Hertogenbosch, Nederland († 1991)

• Coleta Maria Theresia Strikkers (64), Haarlemmermeer
• Arie Starkenburg (82)
• Annette Louise Lyles (66), Potter County, Texas
• Eduard de Jong (90)
• Arthur Llewellyn Hughes (84), Punchbowl, Sydney NSW
• Adeline Harriet Moger (72), Douglas, Minnesota, United States
• Anna Nijsten (85), Maastricht
• Cornelia Johanna Adriana Biever (82), Rolde, Drente, Nederland
• Charles Irwin Todd Jr (60), Oakland City, Gibson, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Oeges Reitsma (95), Noordbergum

• 1984 » Edward Mujica, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1985 » Jon Schofield, English canoe racer
• 1985 » Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 » Wilson Chandler, American basketball player
• 1990 » Ivana Španović, Serbian long jumper
• 1990 » Salvador Pérez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1995 » Gabriella Papadakis, French ice dancer
• 1995 » Missy Franklin, American swimmer
• 1996 » Kateřina Siniaková, Czech tennis player
• 1996 » Tyus Jones, American basketball player

• 1982 » Peter Weiss, German playwright and painter (b. 1916)
• 1988 » Shen Congwen, Chinese author and academic (b. 1902)
• 1990 » Walker Percy, American novelist and essayist (b. 1916)
• 1994 » John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (b. 1942)
• 1999 » Shel Silverstein, American poet, author, and illustrator
• 2000 » Dick Sprang, American illustrator (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1923)
• 2001 » Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician, Governor of Himachal Pradesh (b. 1934)
• 2002 » Kaifi Azmi, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
• 2002 » Yves Robert, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)

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

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. Sarah
14. Melissa
15. Esther
16. Johanna

• 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.
• January 2 » Sharon Pratt Kelly becomes the first African American woman mayor of a major city and first woman Mayor of the District of Columbia.
• August 17 » Strathfield massacre: In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots seven people and injures six others before turning the gun on himself.
• August 27 » Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
• September 5 » The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, comes into force.
• September 17 » Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
• October 26 » Three months after the end of the Ten-Day War, the last soldier of the Yugoslav People's Army leaves the territory of the Republic of Slovenia.

The temperature on May 10, 1991 was between 5.2 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.