About the day » Wednesday March 31, 1897Calender converter

• Adriana Maria Grip, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Hiddinga, Baarderadeel
• Ada Mildred Smith Bell, Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 1994)
• Adelheid Louisa Houthooft, Tegelen
• * Antonius (Toon) de Win, Nuenen († 1977)
• , Tiendeveen, Nederland († 1897)
• Adriaan de Waard, Colijnsplaat, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Dijk, Aalst
• ?? Vaartjes, (DR) Tiendeveen († 1897)
• Aagje (Aaf) Van Der Wal, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1957)

• Adrianus Adrianus KUIJZER (23), Westzaan
• Aafje Krul (76), Hauwert, North Holland, Netherlands
• Albert Kloeze (75), Ruinen
• Hiddinga (0), Gemeente Baarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje van de Kamp (84), Oldebroek, Gld, The Netherlands
• Aaltje van de Kamp (84), Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alphons Bernard Marie Joseph Baert (0), Roermond
• Anna Maria Wigger (47), Raalte
• Anna Black (85), Nr. Arden, Cove District, Barbour County, West Virginia
• Anna Maria Wigger (47), Raalte

• 1890 » Ben Adams, American jumper († 1961)
• 1890 » William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1891 » Victor Varconi, Hungarian-American actor and director († 1976)
• 1893 » Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor and manager († 1954)
• 1893 » Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German physician and historian († 1982)
• 1895 » Vardis Fisher, American author and academic († 1968)
• 1900 » Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester († 1974)
• 1905 » George Treweek, Australian rugby league player († 1991)
• 1905 » Robert Stevenson, English director and screenwriter († 1986)
• 1906 » Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)

• 1877 » Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1801)
• 1880 » Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer (b. 1835)
• 1885 » Franz Abt, German composer and conductor (b. 1819)
• 1907 » Galusha A. Grow, American lawyer and politician, 28th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1823)
• 1910 » Jean Moréas, Greek poet, essayist and art critic (b. 1856)
• 1913 » J. P. Morgan, American banker and financier (b. 1837)
• 1915 » Wyndham Halswelle, English-Scottish runner and captain (b. 1882)
• 1917 » Emil von Behring, German physiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• 1924 » George Charles Haité, English painter and illustrator (b. 1855)
• 1927 » Kang Youwei, Chinese scholar and political reformer (b. 1858)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
• February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
• July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
• July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
• August 2 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
• September 11 » After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.

The temperature on March 31, 1897 was about 5.1 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%.