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• Geertje Cornelia Vreugdenhil (70), Vlaardingen, Nederland
• Adrie Schuller (81)
• Alexander Eder (37)
• Adriaantje Butler (82), Axel, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Manders H10ACR (70), Geldrop, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Cornelia van Ostaijen (78), Sint Willibrord
• Donald Charles Savelkoul (86), Spring Lake Park, Anoka County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Frans van den Broeck (73)
• Cornelis de Haan (90)

• 1989 » G-Eazy, American rapper
• 1990 » Mattias Ekholm, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1991 » Aled Davies, Welsh discus thrower
• 1991 » Cody Eakin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1992 » Marcus Bettinelli, English footballer, goalkeeper
• 1994 » Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer
• 1994 » Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer
• 1994 » Emily Nicholl, Scottish netball player
• 1994 » Emily Temple Wood, American 2016 Wikipedian of the Year award
• 1999 » Tarjei Sandvik Moe, Norwegian actor

• 2002 » Wallace Markfield, American author (b. 1926)
• 2003 » Rachel Kempson, English actress (b. 1910)
• 2004 » Edward Wagenknecht, American critic and educator (b. 1900)
• 2004 » Henry Ries, German-American photographer (b. 1917)
• 2004 » Milton Shulman, Canadian author and critic (b. 1913)
• 2005 » Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and poet (b. 1913)
• 2005 » Carl Amery, German activist and author (b. 1922)
• 2005 » Guy Tardif, Canadian academic and politician (b. 1935)
• 2006 » Claude Piéplu, French actor (b. 1923)
• 2006 » Henry Bumstead, American art director and production designer (b. 1915)

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

1. Amber
2. Sanne
3. Anna
4. Emma
5. Isa
6. Lotte
7. Anne
8. Iris
9. Lisa
10. Chiara
11. Femke
12. Ameila
13. Julia
14. Charlotte
15. Noa
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.
• 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 12 » The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history.
• May 14 » The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
• May 17 » The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts.
• June 5 » Noël Mamère, Mayor of Bègles, celebrates marriage for two men for the first time in France.
• July 5 » The first direct Indonesian presidential election is held.

The temperature on May 24, 2004 was between 2.5 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.