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• Joris van der Wegen, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Coleton Lawrence Hanson, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa († 2012)
• Nathalie Rozemuller, Almelo († 1995)
• Nathalie Rozemuller, Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1995)
• Dylan Thomas van 't Land, Brattleboro, Vermont, Verenigde Staten († 2021)

• Anje van Iddekinge (83), 's Hertogenbosch
• Albert Johannes Schirm (86), Sneek
• Anna Elisabeth Buskens (76), Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Regeling (70), Assen
• Albert Johannes Schirm (86), Sneek
• Cornelia Elisabeth Meijvogel (82), Katwijk
• Brigitta Catharina Lamberta Veldman (81), Venlo, Limburg, Nederland
• Berend Regeling (70)
• Dale Sanford Wint (70), Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States of America
• Cornelia Elisabeth Meijvogel (82), Katwijk

• 1984 » Andrew Bailey, American baseball player
• 1984 » Milorad Čavić, Serbian swimmer
• 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
• 1998 » Santino Ferrucci, American race car driver

• 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)
• 1998 » Charles Van Acker, Belgian-American race car driver (b. 1912)
• 2000 » A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, Sri Lankan historian, author, and academic (b. 1928)
• 2000 » Petar Mladenov, Bulgarian diplomat, 1st President of Bulgaria (b. 1936)
• 2000 » Tito Puente, American jazz musician (b. 1923)

• 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 Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.4 million citizens.
• January 1 » The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
• June 8 » Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
• June 26 » Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.
• July 9 » The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
• August 15 » In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
• August 21 » Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, attempts to divert to West Georgia Regional Airport after the left engine fails, but the aircraft crashes in Carroll County near Carrollton, Georgia, killing nine of the 29 people on board.

The temperature on May 31, 1995 was between 10.6 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.