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• Anna de Redelijkheid, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel († 1999)
• Anna DE REDELIJKHEID, Ouderkerk aan de IJssel Zuid-Holland Netherlands († 1999)
• Anna REDELIJKHEID, de, Ouderkerk aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1999)
• ? Brinksma, Doniawerstal († 1931)
• Catharina Cornelia Half, Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2015)
• Anne Sybolts Beetsma († 1995)
• Anthoinette Helena Maria Mathot, Rijnsburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• Aaltje Kuijt, Barneveld († 1991)
• Cornelia Klazina Philipsen, Anna Paulowna († 2009)
• Anna Elizabeth de BORST, Maarn († 2015)

• Aukje Cornelis Feitsma (71), Leeuwarden
• Aart Vink (26), Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Antje Willems Jorritsma (73), Nijland (FRL)
• Aagtje Balder (91), Broek op L'dijk
• Antoon Christiaan Gordeau (42), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Willems JORRITSMA (73), Nijland (Wymbritseradeel) Friesland Netherlands
• Suls Anna Catharina (79), Wuustwezel, Antwerpen, België
• Alida Lankamp (31), Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Suls (79), Wuustwezel, Antwerpen, België
• Aagtje Cornelisdr Balder (91), Broek op Langedijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1928 » Gaston Miron, Canadian poet and author († 1996)
• 1928 » Luther Perkins, American country guitarist († 1968)
• 1928 » Slade Gorton, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 14th Attorney General of Washington
• 1929 » Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-British actor († 2015)
• 1931 » Bill Graham, German-American businessman († 1991)
• 1931 » Clarence Benjamin Jones, American lawyer and scholar
• 1933 » Charles Osgood, American soldier and journalist
• 1933 » Jean-Marie Straub, French director and screenwriter
• 1934 » Gene Freese, American baseball player and manager († 2013)
• 1934 » Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist († 1987)

• 1920 » Josef Josephi, Polish-born singer and actor (b.1852)
• 1925 » George Bellows, American painter (b.1882)
• 1934 » Alexandre Stavisky, Ukrainian-French financier (b. 1886)
• 1934 » Andrei Bely, Russian novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1880)
• 1935 » Rauf Yekta, Turkish musicologist and author (b. 1871)
• 1938 » Johnny Gruelle, American author and illustrator (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English general (b. 1857)
• 1942 » Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American lawyer and religious leader (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Andres Larka, Estonian general and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of War (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Richard Hillary, Australian pilot and author (b. 1919)

• 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.
• April 14 » The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
• July 16 » Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
• September 18 » The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
• October 17 » Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
• November 7 » The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
• December 9 » The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.

The temperature on January 8, 1931 was between -5.8 °C and 0.9 °C and averaged -1.8 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.