About the day » Sunday May 23, 2004Calender converter

• Aplonia Maria Cornelia SCHENKEVELD (60), Delft
• Edward Reily Sneeringer (79), Hanover, York, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Kamman (96), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriaan Cornelis Maulus (74), Alkmaar (ziekenhuis)
• Andrew B. Ludwig (60), Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Everdina Langeslag (87), Den Haag
• Anneke Groot (70), Gananoque, Ontario, Canada
• Dingena Maria ADAMSE (92), Dordrecht
• Dingena Maria Adamse (92), Dordrecht
• Belinda Podde (48), Zuidoost Beemster

• 1997 » Coy Craft, American footballer
• 1997 » Joe Gomez, English footballer
• 1997 » Pedro Chirivella, Spanish footballer
• 1998 » Luca De La Torre, American footballer
• 1998 » Ross Cunningham, Scottish footballer
• 1998 » Sérgio Sette Câmara, Brazilian race car driver
• 1998 » Salwa Eid Naser, Bahraini track and field sprinter
• 1998 » Steve Lacy, American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer
• 2000 » Felipe Drugovich, Brazilian race car driver
• 2000 » Jaxson Hayes, American basketball player

• 1998 » Telford Taylor, American general and lawyer (b. 1908)
• 1999 » Owen Hart, Canadian-American wrestler (b. 1965)
• 2002 » Sam Snead, American golfer and journalist (b. 1912)
• 2006 » Kazimierz Górski, Polish footballer and manager (b. 1921)
• 2006 » Lloyd Bentsen, American colonel and politician, 69th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1921)
• 2008 » Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, Spanish mountaineer (b. 1967)
• 2008 » Utah Phillips, American singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1935)
• 2009 » Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean soldier and politician, 9th President of South Korea (b. 1946)
• 2010 » José Lima, Dominican-American baseball player (b. 1972)
• 2010 » Simon Monjack, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1970)

• 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.
• 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.
• March 22 » Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles.
• April 24 » The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
• April 25 » The March for Women's Lives brings between 500,000 and 800,000 protesters, mostly pro-choice, to Washington D.C. to protest the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, and other restrictions on abortion.
• August 24 » 90 passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers from Chechnya.
• October 4 » SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.

The temperature on May 23, 2004 was between 3.6 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.