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• Antonius Johannes Martinus de Beer, Tilburg, Nederland († 2005)
• adriaantje sampimon, amsterdam
• Alle Bakker, Nieuw-Weerdinge, Emmen († 2013)
• Apolonia Poreda, Stara Huta, woj.lubelskie akt 56 († 2000)
• Anna van Oostrom, Mijdrecht († 2006)
• Anna Lucia Schröder, Amsterdam († 1992)
• Alma Elizabeth Wetzel, Williamsburg, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 1989)
• Veenstra Dresselhuis († 2002)
• Anja Johanna Gakes, Harderwijk († 1914)
• "Alice" Adrienne Elia Marie Thérèse de Ponton d'Amécourt, Saint-Calais, Sarthe, France († 2010)

• Alfred P. Hyland (60)
• Anna de Vos (1), Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia ROMMENS (63), Roosendaal (N.Br. Nl)
• Adriaan Jobse (80), Meliskerke, Zeeland, NL
• Adrianus Maria Ammerlaan (0), Schipluiden
• Antonie van Alderen (72), Gilze en Rijen
• Antonia Bronkhorst (44), Brink en Orden (Apeldoorn)
• Antonie Alderen van (72), Gilze en Rijen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnoldus Ponsen (57), Dordrecht
• Antonie van Alderen (72), Gilze en Rijen, Gemeente Gilze en Rijen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1909 » Miron Grindea, Romanian-English journalist († 1995)
• 1913 » Don Hutson, American football player and coach († 1997)
• 1914 » Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer and police officer († 1994)
• 1915 » Alan Lomax, American historian, author, and scholar († 2002)
• 1915 » Bobby Hackett, American trumpet player and cornet player († 1976)
• 1915 » Garry Moore, American comedian and game show host († 1993)
• 1915 » Thomas Merton, American monk and author († 1968)
• 1916 » Frank Parker, American tennis player († 1997)
• 1917 » Fred Bassetti, American architect and academic, founded Bassetti Architects († 2013)
• 1919 » Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster († 1972)

• 1888 » John Bosco, Italian priest and educator, founded the Salesian Society (b. 1815)
• 1892 » Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (b. 1834)
• 1900 » John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman (b. 1844)
• 1907 » Timothy Eaton, Canadian businessman, founded Eaton's (b. 1834)
• 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)

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

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

• 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
• April 20 » Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miners' strike.
• August 23 » World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
• September 17 » Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
• September 26 » The United States Federal Trade Commission is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
• October 18 » The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
• November 23 » Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.

The temperature on January 31, 1914 was between 0.8 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.