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• Driesje Jager, Heerde († 2014)
• Franciscus Johannes Lamers, Nijmegen († 1944)
• Doortje Hulsman († 2017)
• Andreas Verbiest, Leiden, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Genova Antoinette SPILLEBEEN, Izegem, Belgique († 2017)
• Frans Jozef VAN FRAEYENHOVEN, Bornem,2880,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 2006)
• Ann Kathleen Foran, N Y S I Rich, New York († 1987)
• Arien Hamstra, Harderwijk († 1951)
• Ellen van den Broeke, Wierden, Overijssel, Nederland († 2016)
• Cornelia Johanna (Corry) Bierhuizen, Den Haag

• Adrianus IPSKAMP (85), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Bertha de Bruin (43), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Anna Maria van Weelden (69), Utrecht
• Adolf Wessel- (78), Emmen, Nederland
• Bertha Bruin de (42), Kralingen
• Andreas Boereke Prits Willekens (71), Balen, Antwerpen, BelgiÁe
• Anna Johanna van Dijk (26), Purmerend
• Anna Walburgis Maria Sinnige (56), Utrecht
• * Dirkje Kooiman (72), Hei en Boeicop
• Andreas Josephus Verheyen (62), Retie, België

• 1931 » Ernie Banks, American baseball player and coach († 2015)
• 1932 » Miron Babiak, Polish sea captain († 2013)
• 1933 » Camille Henry, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1997)
• 1933 » Morton Mower, American cardiologist and inventor
• 1934 » Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 2005)
• 1934 » Ernesto Brambilla, Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver
• 1934 » Gene DeWeese, American author († 2012)
• 1934 » James Franciscus, American actor and producer († 1991)
• 1935 » Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1936 » Can Bartu, Turkish former basketball and football player

• 1923 » Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (b. 1869)
• 1933 » John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1942 » Henry Larkin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 1954 » Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Vivian Woodward, English captain and footballer (b. 1879)
• 1955 » John Mott, American activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1956 » A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright, created Winnie-the-Pooh (b. 1882)
• 1958 » Karl Selter, Estonian politician, 14th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1898)
• 1960 » Auguste Herbin, French painter (b. 1882)

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

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

• 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
• May 21 » Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
• June 19 » The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
• July 2 » The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
• July 5 » "Bloody Thursday": Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
• September 26 » The ocean liner RMSQueen Mary is launched.
• November 23 » An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.

The temperature on January 31, 1934 was between 0.4 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.