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• Aparecida Ferreira, Bariri, São Paulo, Brasil († 2005)
• Bintje Trijntje Jelmers Krol, Garijp, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 2016)
• Anna Hendrika Jenneke Haarbrink, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelia A.W. (Corrie) Korteweg, Ooltgensplaat († 2012)
• Bernardus Antonius Mulder, Oldenzaal († 1931)
• Cornelia Adriana Willempje Korteweg, Ooltgensplaat, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• Aaltje de Vries, Leiden († 2005)
• Bernardus Christianus Kloppenburg, Wehl († 2006)
• Catherina Agnes de Nijs, Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1931)
• Adriana van der Plas, Katwijk († 2006)

• Adrianus Vendrig (64), Woerden
• Anna Catharina HUGENS (42), Zandvliet, Antwerpen, België
• Akke Abes van Asperen (84), Bolsward
• Andries Aberson (60), De Bilt
• Akke Abes van Asperen (84), Bolsward (FRL)
• Anna Willemina Plomp (82), Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland
• Andries Sjoerdsz Boersma (83), Jasper, Dubois County, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Andries Aberson (60), De Bilt
• Alida Gerarda van Kempen, Bloemendaal
• Pekaar (0), Yerseke

• 1927 » Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author
• 1928 » Arnold Rüütel, Estonian agronomist and politician, President of Estonia
• 1928 » Lothar Schmid, German chess player († 2013)
• 1929 » Antonine Maillet, Canadian author and playwright
• 1929 » Audun Boysen, Norwegian runner († 2000)
• 1929 » George Coe, American actor and producer († 2015)
• 1930 » George E. Smith, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 » Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter († 2016)
• 1933 » Jean Becker, French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1935 » Larry Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer († 1980)

• 1891 » Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)
• 1897 » Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)
• 1910 » Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)
• 1945 » Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1898)
• 1945 » Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
• 1950 » Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian and bibliographer (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Yury Olesha, Russian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1899)
• 1964 » Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter, illustrator, and set designer (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Hubertus van Mook, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1894)
• 1968 » Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (b. 1929)

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 23 » Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
• August 24 » Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
• September 18 » The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
• September 30 » Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
• October 21 » A secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.

The temperature on May 10, 1931 was between 4.6 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.