About the day » Monday May 31, 2004Calender converter

• Adriana (Jean) Hameeteman (80), ,, Oude-Tonge, Nederland
• Esther Mae Esper (73), Arnold, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
• Cor WIELAARD (66), Belfeld, Limburg, Nederland
• Barendina Meijer (77), Rotterdam
• Erika Voss (80), Aschendorf
• Cornelis Lambregts (27), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Greven (91)
• Adrianus Johannes Antonius Koper ook geschreven Jansen (77)
• Everdina Hubertha Maria (Dien) Kunst (82), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berthus van der Sluijs (79), 's Gravenmoer

• 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

• 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)
• 2004 » Étienne Roda-Gil, French screenwriter and composer (b. 1941)
• 2004 » Aiyathurai Nadesan, Sri Lankan journalist (b. 1954)
• 2004 » Robert Quine, American guitarist (b. 1941)
• 2006 » Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Spanish sculptor (b. 1933)
• 2006 » Raymond Davis, Jr., American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)

1. Samuel
2. Thomas
3. Sam
4. Lucas
5. Sem
6. Jelle
7. Daan
8. Lars
9. Niels
10. Tim
11. Claus-casimir
12. Thijs
13. Noah
14. Max
15. Johannes
16. Jan

1. Amber
2. Sanne
3. Anna
4. Emma
5. Lotte
6. Isa
7. Anne
8. Iris
9. Chiara
10. Lisa
11. Femke
12. Ameila
13. Julia
14. Noa
15. Charlotte
16. Anouk

• 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, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• January 8 » The RMSQueen Mary 2, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II.
• February 18 » Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Nishapur, Iran, when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.
• May 14 » The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
• August 1 » A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
• September 16 » Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.
• November 21 » The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100billion) of Iraq's external debt.

The temperature on May 31, 2004 was between 8.1 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.