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• Arie Ouwehand, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2009)
• Adriana Geertruida Minderhoud, Kloetinge, Nederland († 2003)
• Buddy Wayne Bower, East St. Louis, St Clair, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2002)
• Elisabeth Marie José Jurgens, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2004)
• Albert Jan Telman, Hardenberg, Ambt († 1996)
• Gerrit Jan Brinkman, Avereest († 1932)
• Geerit Rietveld, Papendrecht († 2017)
• Friedrich Gerhardus (Frits) MIGGELBRINK, Silvolde, Oude IJsselstreek (NL) († 2008)
• Dorothy Marie Uebelhor, Dubois County, Jasper, Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 1992)
• Cornelis Adrianus Johannes Obels, Roosendaal († 2009)

• Christiaan Hendrik Folkert Prins (19), Bellingwolde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Andries Willemse (56), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Albertje Willems (73), Peize, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Auktje (Sierts) de VRIES (77), Oldekerk, Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Berend Eising (65)
• Antonia Limper (38), Zeist
• Aleida Catharina Scheffer (74), Baarn
• Austin "Auston" Holland Hollins (82), Upshur, Texas, United States
• Auktje Sierts DE VRIES (77), Oldekerk Groningen Netherlands
• America (Casdorph) MCCALLISTER (68), Kanawha, West Virginia, United States

• 1928 » Billy Martin, American baseball player and coach († 1989)
• 1929 » Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist, and feminist († 2012)
• 1929 » Betty Carter, American singer-songwriter († 1998)
• 1929 » Claude Morin, Canadian academic and politician
• 1929 » John Conyers, American lawyer and politician († 2019)
• 1930 » Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist and composer († 2000)
• 1931 » Hana Brady, Jewish-Czech Holocaust victim (d.1944)
• 1931 » K. Natwar Singh, Indian scholar and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs
• 1931 » Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., American soldier and politician, 85th Governor of Connecticut
• 1931 » Vujadin Boškov, Serbian footballer, coach, and manager († 2014)

• 1913 » Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)
• 1926 » Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan (b. 1861)
• 1936 » Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (b. 1860)
• 1938 » Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b. 1870)
• 1943 » Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist and academic (b. 1865)
• 1944 » George Ade, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1946 » Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (b. 1890)
• 1947 » Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1947 » Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (b. 1903)

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 5 » The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.
• May 1 » The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
• September 30 » Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
• November 7 » The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
• November 22 » Al-Mina'a SC is founded in Iraq.
• December 11 » Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland.

The temperature on May 16, 1931 was between 10.6 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.