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• Jasmijn Bakker
• Stephany Whitlock

• Aleida Francisca Antonia Wolkenfelt (84), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Corrie Aarden (57)
• Cor Fleer (77), Eindhoven
• Doetje Piers Landstra (182), Witmarsum
• Aleida Francisca Wolkenfelt (84)
• Cornelis Lourens (77), Baarn
• Elisabeth Johanna van der Voorn (63), Leiden
• Cornelia Josephus Petronella Aarden (57), Lepelstraat
• Carlos Mortier (37)
• Dirk van der Meer (84), Groningen

• 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

• 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)
• 2001 » Arlene Francis, American actress, talk show host, game show panelist, and television personality (b. 1907)
• 2002 » Subhash Gupte, Indian cricketer (b. 1929)

1. Nick
2. Niels
3. Thomas
4. Daan
5. Robin
6. Tim
7. Jan
8. Max
9. Bas
10. Bram
11. Kevin
12. Dennis
13. Rick
14. Johannes
15. Lars
16. Pieter

1. Laura
2. Sanne
3. Emma
4. Amber
5. Kim
6. Anne
7. Femke
8. Charlotte
9. Anouk
10. Lotte
11. Julia
12. Eva
13. Lisa
14. Anna
15. Demi
16. Iris

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.7 million citizens.
• January 12 » Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
• January 17 » Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his Drudge Report website.
• May 7 » Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40billion and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
• August 28 » Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
• September 14 » Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
• December 26 » Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones.

The temperature on May 31, 1998 was between 10.4 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.