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• Johannes Luca (Luca) Nies, Hardenberg († 2006)
• Yodaan Johannes Petrus van Bruggen, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Geesje Wilting (92), Assen,Drenthe,Niederlande
• Franciscus Gerardus van Rijsbergen (77), Zoetermeer (Zoetermeer) (Zuid-Holland)
• Anna Dekkenga (71), Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
• Geert Herman Henri Bosker (81)
• Cornelia (Kea) van Bochove (63), Noordwijk
• André Albert Glorieux (86), Kortrijk
• Dieuwke van Wijk (92), Menaldum
• Egbertus Nelemans (66), Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Geesje Wilting (92), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Elisabeth Maria Rijsdijk (87)

• 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

• 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)
• 2010 » Brian Duffy, English photographer and producer (b. 1933)
• 2010 » Louise Bourgeois, French-American sculptor and painter (b. 1911)

1. Jop
2. Thijs
3. Thomas
4. Sem
5. Lucas
6. Daan
7. Lars
8. Stijn
9. Tim
10. Milan
11. Jesse
12. Jan
13. Ruben
14. Niels
15. Sam
16. Miquel

1. Emma
2. Fleur
3. Sanne
4. Anna
5. Joanna
6. Sophie
7. Marit
8. Julia
9. Arieanna
10. Maria
11. Anouk
12. Lotte
13. Leonore
14. Anne
15. Iris
16. Eva

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• May 13 » São Paulo violence: Rebellions occur in several prisons in Brazil.
• June 5 » Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
• November 21 » Anti-Syrian Lebanese politician and government minister Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
• December 18 » United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
• December 28 » War in Somalia: The militaries of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian troops capture Mogadishu unopposed.
• December 29 » The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.

The temperature on May 31, 2006 was between 7.1 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.