About the day » Friday May 29, 1931Calender converter

• Edward Stanley Newman, Lark, Morton County, North Dakota († 1988)
• Bouwina Hemmes, Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland († 2019)
• Cornelia Bernardina Maria Braam, Heemstede († 2015)
• Alida STUURMAN, Wormerveer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1992)
• Antonius Maria Coleta Beerens, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2004)
• Dingeman de Visser, Middelburg († 1944)
• Alida Stuurman, Wormerveer († 1992)
• Arthur Österreicher, Wien, Austria († 1996)
• Adrianus Cornelius Maria Kanters, Gilze en Rijen († 1989)
• Dirk Middelkoop, Barneveld († 2016)

• Berend Lufting (61), Holsloot, Nederland
• Clemens Antonius Friedrich Hubertus Maria Freiherr von Graes (61), Hopsten,Regierungsbezirk Münster,North Rhine-Westphalia,Germany
• Albertje Stobbe (54), Weststellingwerf
• Antje Serné (72), Wilnis
• Antje Ottes Jelsma (55), Opsterland
• Antje de Groot (77), Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Charles Albert Tarrant (75), Auckland,New Zealand
• Catharina Cornelia (Cato) Bressers (76), Dongen
• Antje Jongkind (81), Nieuwe Amstel
• Antje (Jantje) Ottes Jelsma (55), Groningen

• 1927 » Jean Coutu, Canadian pharmacist and businessman, founded the Jean Coutu Group
• 1929 » Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher and academic
• 1929 » Peter Higgs, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1929 » Roberto Vargas, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager († 2014)
• 1932 » Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author
• 1932 » Richie Guerin, American basketball player and coach
• 1933 » Helmuth Rilling, German conductor and educator
• 1933 » Tarquinio Provini, Italian motorcycle racer († 2005)
• 1934 » Bill Vander Zalm, Dutch-Canadian businessman and politician, 28th Premier of British Columbia
• 1935 » André Brink, South African author and playwright († 2015)

• 1914 » Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, English author and playwright (b. 1871)
• 1917 » Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (b. 1831)
• 1919 » Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
• 1920 » Carlos Deltour, French rower (b. 1864)
• 1921 » Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter and educator (b. 1849)
• 1935 » Josef Suk, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1874)
• 1939 » Ursula Ledóchowska, Austrian-Polish nun and saint, founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (b. 1865)
• 1941 » Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1892)
• 1942 » John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)
• 1946 » Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (b. 1905)

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.
• February 3 » The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
• March 15 » SSViking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
• March 26 » Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
• March 31 » A Transcontinental & Western Air airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
• May 7 » The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
• July 1 » United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).

The temperature on May 29, 1931 was between 8.7 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.