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• Josy van Ommeren († 2009)

• Cornelius Rus (88), Holland Michigan
• Dirk Lubberding (72)
• Catharina Kruijer (71), Sappemeer, Groningen, Nederland
• Camille Edna Pearl (Pearl) Cleaver (91), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Albert Kaptein (100), Ocean, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Annie Sue Wallace (88)
• Cornelis Marius Vrijenhoek (79), Rijswijk, Nederland
• Catharina Ruitenburg (95), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• van den Munchof (70), Horst, Li.NL
• catharina margaretha ruitenburg (95)

• 1990 » Andrea Torres, Filipino actress and model
• 1990 » Duvashen Padayachee, Australian race car driver
• 1990 » Irina Falconi, American tennis player
• 1990 » Ryan Morgan, Australian rugby league player
• 1991 » Brianne Jenner, Canadian women's ice hockey player
• 1992 » Victor Oladipo, American basketball player
• 1993 » Jānis Bērziņš, Latvian basketball player
• 1994 » Abi Masatora, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1994 » Joseph Tapine, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1996 » Pelayo Roza, Spanish sprint canoeist

• 1985 » Fikri Sönmez, Turkish tailor and politician (b. 1938)
• 1987 » Cathryn Damon, American actress (b. 1930)
• 1987 » Paul Butterfield, American singer and harmonica player (b. 1942)
• 1988 » Lillian Estelle Fisher, American historian of Spanish America (b. 1891)
• 1990 » Emily Remler, American guitarist (b. 1957)
• 1991 » Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer-songwriter and mandolin player (b. 1902)
• 1992 » Gregor Mackenzie, Scottish politician (b. 1927)
• 1993 » France Štiglic, Slovenian film director and screenwriter (b. 1919)
• 1995 » Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player (b. 1922)
• 2000 » Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist and academic (b. 1909)

1. Jeroen
2. Thomas
3. Michael
4. Tim
5. Jan
6. Kevin
7. Bart
8. Robin
9. Sander
10. Dennis
11. Johannes
12. Mark
13. Jacob
14. Rick
15. Hendrik
16. Ruben

1. Iris
2. Lisa
3. Laura
4. Maria
5. Tessa
6. Melissa
7. Anna
8. Anne
9. Sanne
10. Sophie
11. Eline
12. Sarah
13. Jessica
14. Michelle
15. Kelly
16. Amanda

• 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 15.2 million citizens.
• January 13 » Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
• February 12 » Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted from New Strand Shopping Centre by two ten-year-old boys, who later torture and murder him.
• March 12 » North Korea announces that it will withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
• April 8 » The Republic of North Macedonia joins the United Nations.
• April 19 » The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. 76 Davidians, including eighteen children under the age of ten, died in the fire.
• April 30 » CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.

The temperature on May 4, 1993 was between 0.2 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.