About the day » Friday August 7, 1931Calender converter

• Geertje Klaasen van Benthem, Ambt Vollenhove († 1942)
• Gerard Nijs, Bilsen (Belgie) († 2011)
• Frensina Roelfina Hoving, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2020)
• Abraham van Leeuwen, Rotterdam († 1942)
• Albert Kers, Epe († 2015)
• Albert BIJNENS, Zutendaal (Limburg) (B) († 2003)
• Arnold George Escher, Zandvoort († 2009)
• François Marie Louis Stiers, Hasselt, België († 1987)
• Darrell Dean SCHOLTEN, Douglas County, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten († 1988)
• Aart van den Houten, rotterdam, Nederland († 2010)

• Coenraad Arend Hiebendaal (65), Horssen
• Beligje van Alphen (83), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Barbara Saive (70)
• Anna Kamminga (0), Gerkesklooster
• Anton Ludwig Teunissen (53)
• Antje de Wit (26)
• Anna PIPITONE (91)
• Alexandre Baudry (67), Newport
• Adriana den Hollander (57), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Vink (73), Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

• 1929 » Don Larsen, American baseball player († 2020)
• 1930 » Togrul Narimanbekov, Azerbaijani-French painter and academic († 2013)
• 1930 » Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer and educator († 2017)
• 1931 » Charles E. Rice, American scholar and author († 2015)
• 1931 » Jack Good, British television producer († 2017)
• 1932 » Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner († 1973)
• 1932 » Edward Hardwicke, English actor († 2011)
• 1932 » Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist and academic († 2005)
• 1932 » Rien Poortvliet, Dutch painter and illustrator († 1995)
• 1933 » Eddie Firmani, South African footballer and manager

• 1900 » Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
• 1912 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)
• 1953 » Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1957 » Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, American author and educator (b. 1892)
• 1960 » Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine boxer (b. 1894)

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 14 » Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
• March 25 » The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
• May 14 » Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
• July 1 » United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
• July 16 » Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.

The temperature on August 7, 1931 was between 13.1 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.