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• Henricus Christiaan Martinus Weeterings, Tilburg († 2005)
• Felicia Juliana Bénedicte Barbara van Lippe-Biesterfeld van Vollenhoven, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Felicia Juliana Bénedicte Barbara van Lippe-Biesterfeld van Vollenhoven
• Cato Barberien, Bonheiden, België
• Felicia Juliana Bénedicte Barbara van Van Lippe-Biesterfeld van Vollenhoven

• Cornelia van der Keur (83), 't Harde
• Catharina Margaretha John (42), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Donna Marie Woessner (75), Shannon (Carroll County) (Illinois)
• Aafke Hartog (90)
• Eeltje de Boer (54), Sneek, Gem. Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Berend Drenth (86), Zuidhorn
• ANNA GEERTRUIDA STOLP (88), LOENEN AAN DE VECHT
• Antje Jungjohann (77)
• Dik Kruiten (67), Velserbroek
• Anna Geertruida Stolp (88), Loenen

• 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 » Petar Mladenov, Bulgarian diplomat, 1st President of Bulgaria (b. 1936)
• 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)
• 2009 » Danny La Rue, Irish-British drag queen performer and singer (b. 1927)
• 2009 » George Tiller, American physician (b. 1941)

1. Thomas
2. Tom
3. Thijs
4. Daan
5. Lucas
6. Bas
7. Milan
8. Daniel
9. Tim
10. Ian
11. Lars
12. Niels
13. Sem
14. Max
15. Bram
16. Alexander

1. Emma
2. Alexia
3. Anna
4. Sophie
5. Floor
6. Julia
7. Fleur
8. Kierstin
9. Iris
10. Isa
11. Nienke
12. Lisa
13. Eva
14. Femke
15. Anouk
16. Felicia

• 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 6 » American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is indicted for the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.
• February 16 » The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–05 regular season and playoffs.
• February 28 » A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
• April 24 » Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
• July 21 » July 2005 London bombings occur.
• October 21 » Images of the dwarf planet Eris are taken and subsequently used in documenting its discovery.

The temperature on May 31, 2005 was between 6.4 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.