About the day » Tuesday May 25, 2004Calender converter

• Adriaan Pauwels († 2005)
• Samuël Bernhard Louis van Vollenhoven
• Adriaan Pauwels († 2005)
• Martin HONKOOP, Stolwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2004)
• Samuel Bernhard Louis van Vollenhove

• Anna Cornelia Maria (Annie) de Wit (91), 's-Gravenhage
• Geertje Brakelé (81), Hilversum
• Gene Frederick Hildeman (89), Chicago Heights, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Arie Rodijk (85), Gouda
• Cornelia Margaretha Maria (Cock) Loogman (77)
• Gertruda Cornelia Norbart (71), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Engelbertus Brinkhuis (78), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albert Bijsterbosch (97), Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie Rodijk
• Christina Kuilman (91), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1987 » Timothy Derijck, Belgian footballer
• 1988 » Cameron van der Burgh, South African swimmer
• 1988 » Dávid Škutka, Slovak footballer
• 1990 » Bo Dallas, American wrestler
• 1990 » Nikita Filatov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1993 » James Porter, English cricketer
• 1994 » Aly Raisman, American gymnast
• 1994 » Matt Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1995 » Kagiso Rabada, South African cricketer
• 1996 » David Pastrňák, Czech ice hockey player

• 2003 » Sloan Wilson, American author and poet (b. 1920)
• 2004 » Roger Williams Straus, Jr., American publisher, co-founded Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publishing Company (b. 1917)
• 2005 » Graham Kennedy, Australian television host and actor (b. 1934)
• 2005 » Ismail Merchant, Indian-born film producer and director (b. 1936)
• 2005 » Robert Jankel, English businessman, founded Panther Westwinds (b. 1938)
• 2005 » Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician (b. 1929)
• 2005 » Zoran Mušič, Slovene painter and illustrator (b. 1909)
• 2007 » Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor, comedian, and director (b. 1931)
• 2008 » J. R. Simplot, American businessman, founded Simplot (b. 1909)
• 2009 » Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (b. 1905)

• 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.
• May 15 » Arsenal F.C. go an entire league campaign unbeaten in the English Premier League, joining Preston North End F.C with the right to claim the title "The Invincibles".
• July 5 » The first direct Indonesian presidential election is held.
• 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 27 » The Boston Red Sox defeat the St. Louis Cardinals to win their first World Series in 86 years.
• November 26 » The last Poʻouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
• November 27 » Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.

The temperature on May 25, 2004 was between 5.1 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.