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• , Eindhout († 2016)
• Aaltje de Wolff, Rotterdam († 1942)
• Cornelis Hendrikus van den Berg, Noordwijkerhout († 2010)
• Berend Jan Huisman († 2001)
• Anna Hoogland, Haarlem († 2005)
• Delbert J. Newey, Ogden-Iowa (USA) († 1976)
• Albertus Nijland, Zwolle († 2000)
• André Crombez, Lievin, Pas-de-Calais, France († 1932)
• Elizabeth Ivey Eller, Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina, United States of America († 1999)
• Bastiaan Arie den Hertog († 1995)

• Andriana Anthonia van Veenendaal (61), Schalkwijk
• Albert Budding (70), Veenendaal,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana van der Spek (74), Delft
• Andries Willem van den Brandeler (74), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• ALIDA MARIA WEEBER (73), DELFT
• Ann Elizabeth Fowler (Alexander) (74), Gibson, Tennessee
• Hoogenboom (0), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Hazelberg (63), Heeswijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Oudhuizen (0), Krommenie, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Pieter Zijlmans (70), Loon op Zand

• 1929 » Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Sri Lankan anthropologist and academic († 2014)
• 1930 » Mary Ann McMorrow, American lawyer and judge († 2013)
• 1930 » Norman Podhoretz, American journalist and author
• 1930 » Paula Tilbrook, English actress († 2019)
• 1931 » Johannes Rau, German journalist and politician, 8th Federal President of Germany († 2006)
• 1931 » John Enderby, English physicist and academic
• 1931 » Robert L. Park, American physicist and academic
• 1932 » Dian Fossey, American zoologist and anthropologist († 1985)
• 1932 » Victor Ciocâltea, Romanian chess player († 1983)
• 1933 » Susan Sontag, American novelist, essayist, and critic († 2004)

• 1906 » Marshall Field, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Marshall Field's (b. 1834)
• 1917 » George Dewey, American admiral (b. 1837)
• 1919 » Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 5th President of Brazil (b. 1848)
• 1933 » Bekir Sami Kunduh, Turkish politician (b. 1867)
• 1936 » Albert Fish, American serial killer, rapist and cannibal (b. 1870)
• 1938 » Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Indian author and playwright (b. 1876)
• 1942 » Carole Lombard, American actress and comedian (b. 1908)
• 1942 » Ernst Scheller, German lawyer and politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1899)
• 1942 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (b. 1850)
• 1942 » Villem Grünthal-Ridala, Estonian poet and linguist (b. 1885)

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.
• March 14 » Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
• March 23 » Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
• March 26 » Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
• April 14 » The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
• May 29 » Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
• August 24 » France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality pact.

The temperature on January 16, 1931 was between 6.0 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 9.5 mm of rain during 6.7 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.