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• Nynke Marije Elisabeth Jacobs, Leeuwarden
• Ilse Zijlstra

• Adriana Petronella van Eindhoven (91), Helvoirt
• * Johanna Elschot (83), Rosmalen
• Cornelis Petrus Warmerdam (82), Warmond
• Anna van de Kruis (90), Woensel
• Delores Jean "Dee" Burge (59), Albany, Shackelford County, Texas
• Alida Petronella Wilhelmina Zondag (48)
• Berend Drenth (71)
• Anne Cornelis Dijken van (34), Zetten
• Abraham Mattheus Cornelissen (87), Den Helder
• (Bep) Elisabeth van der Kogel (75), Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1988 » Heida Reed, Icelandic-British actress
• 1989 » Corey Dickerson, American baseball player
• 1990 » Wyatt Roy, Australian politician
• 1991 » Joel Obi, Nigerian footballer
• 1991 » Suho, South Korean singer and actor
• 1992 » Anna Baryshnikov, American actress
• 1994 » Florian Luger, Austrian male model
• 1998 » Samile Bermannelli, Brazilian fashion model
• 1999 » Camren Bicondova, American actress
• 1999 » Femke Huijzer, Dutch model

• 1997 » Alfred Hershey, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect and painter (b. 1906)
• 1998 » John Derek, American actor, director, and photographer (b. 1926)
• 1998 » José Enrique Moyal, Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Davie Fulton, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1916)
• 2004 » Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
• 2004 » Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960)
• 2005 » Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (b. 1914)
• 2005 » Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
• 2006 » Lee Jong-wook, South Korean physician and diplomat (b. 1945)

1. Thomas
2. Jan
3. Lucas
4. Robin
5. Daan
6. Lars
7. Max
8. Bram
9. Tim
10. Ruben
11. Jasper
12. Thijs
13. Jacob
14. Sander
15. Niels
16. Stijn

1. Emma
2. Britt
3. Femke
4. Julia
5. Ilse
6. Sophie
7. Amber
8. Sanne
9. Anna
10. Laura
11. Lisa
12. Fleur
13. Anne
14. Charlotte
15. Maria
16. Anastasia

• 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 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
• January 20 » George W. Bush is inaugurated the 43rd President of the United States of America.
• March 23 » The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
• June 10 » Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
• September 18 » First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
• September 27 » In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
• October 8 » A twin engine Cessna and a Scandinavian Airlines System jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.

The temperature on May 22, 2001 was between 6.6 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 14.8 hours of sunshine (93%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.