About the day » Monday March 31, 1924Calender converter

• Anton J. HOORT († 2000)
• Berend de Boer, Oudega, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland († 1987)
• Bud Ernest Prettyman, Price, Carbon County, Utah († 2003)
• Anton J. Hoort, Ogilvie-Minnesota (USA) († 2000)
• Anna Maria van Helmond, Hooge en Lage Mierde († 2005)
• Bruno Oskar Braig († 2017)
• Antonia Maria Ulkeman († 1924)
• Berend de Boer, Oudega († 1987)
• Albertus Joseph Wilhelmus Mentink, Keijenborg,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1980)
• Alice Audrey Schnebelt, Chelsea MI († 2003)

• Angeline Gertrude Crussier (56), Willemstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• angelina gertrude CRUSSIER (56), willemstad
• Alida den Elzer (78), Delft
• Adriaan Elst (48), Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Adelheid, Adelheide Kipp (85)
• Adrianus Elst (48), Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnoldus Sparenburg (18), Delft
• Anna Maria Heijkant (79)
• Antonius Dirckx (42), Baarn
• Aaltje Smit (79), Amsterdam

• 1922 » Patrick Magee, Irish actor († 1982)
• 1922 » Richard Kiley, American actor and singer († 1999)
• 1923 » Don Barksdale, American basketball player († 1993)
• 1923 » François Sermon, Belgian footballer († 2013)
• 1924 » Charles Guggenheim, American director and producer († 2002)
• 1924 » Leo Buscaglia, American author and academic († 1998)
• 1925 » Jean Coutu, Canadian actor and director († 1999)
• 1926 » Beni Montresor, Italian director, set designer, author, and illustrator († 2001)
• 1926 » John Fowles, English novelist († 2005)
• 1926 » Rocco Petrone, American colonel and engineer († 2006)

• 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)
• 1930 » Ludwig Schüler, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1836)
• 1931 » Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (b. 1888)
• 1935 » Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian-American businessman and diplomat, founded Prince Matchabelli perfume (b. 1885)
• 1939 » Ioannis Tsangaridis, Greek general (b. 1887)

• 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
• January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• January 25 » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• February 14 » The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
• June 26 » The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
• October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
• November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.

The temperature on March 31, 1924 was between -0.8 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.