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• Adrana van daalen, Zuilen († 2020)
• Cornelis Jacobus Immerzeel, Sassenheim († 1987)
• Andries Christiaan Balke, Amsterdam († 1989)
• Clementine Carolina De bruyn, Hingene († 2000)
• Geertruida Catharina Liberta Scheepers, Geldrop († 1977)
• Ben Reus, Lutjebroek, Stede Broec, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2001)
• Aaltje Wierts, Zuidbarge, Emmen († 2023)
• Geertuida Catharina Liberata Scheepers, Geldrop († 1977)
• Frank DiSerio, New York City, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Barbara Beaner († 1974)

• Adam Flugel (51)
• Anna Geertrujda \Geertrui Heijl (73), cuijk, en, Sint Agatha, Cuijk, Nordbrabant, Niederlande
• Antonius Pater (37), Oude Niedorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Adriana van 't Wout (19), Alphen aan den Rijn
• Adriaan Marees (40), Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Lenting (41), Kornhorn
• Agnestinus Laurentius Hoes (79), Ottersum, LB, Nederland
• Anna Maria Eleuteria Vrolijk (81), Aruba
• Anna Rosalia Van Ursel (81), Antwerpen
• Agnetius Hoes (79), Ottersum

• 1928 » Edward L. Moyers, American businessman († 2006)
• 1928 » Erik Bruhn, Danish dancer and choreographer († 1986)
• 1928 » Shridath Ramphal, Guyanese academic and politician, 2nd Commonwealth Secretary-General
• 1931 » Glenn Hall, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1932 » Terence English, South African-English surgeon and academic
• 1933 » Neale Fraser, Australian tennis player
• 1934 » Benjamin Boretz, American composer and theorist
• 1934 » Harold Henning, South African golfer († 2004)
• 1934 » Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, Colombian-Dutch painter and illustrator († 2015)
• 1934 » Simon Nicholson, English sculptor and painter († 1990)

• 1907 » Jacob Nash Victor, American engineer (b. 1835)
• 1911 » Rosetta Jane Birks, Australian suffragist (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Eduardo Di Capua, Neapolitan composer, singer and songwriter (b. 1865)
• 1929 » Gustav Stresemann, German politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1929 » Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1931 » Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1865)
• 1936 » John Heisman, American football player and coach (b. 1869)
• 1953 » Arnold Bax, English composer and poet (b. 1883)
• 1959 » Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Refet Bele, Turkish general (b. 1877)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Petrus
8. Pieter
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. Antonius
15. Arie
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Helena
14. Geertruida
15. Margaretha
16. Grietje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.9 million citizens.
• January 7 » Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
• March 15 » SSViking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
• March 23 » Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
• July 1 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.
• October 1 » Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.
• October 1 » The George Washington Bridge in the United States, linking New Jersey and New York, is opened.

The temperature on October 3, 1931 was between 6.0 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.