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• Aart van Boeschoten, Putten, Gelderland, Nederland († 2011)
• Alida Scholte, Lisse († 2018)
• DtrAddie&Lewis Combest [Wk |||], Anna, Collin County, Texas († 1931)
• Dieudonné Rosenquist, Soerabaja († 2005)
• Agatha Anna Alida Komen, Zijpe († 2011)
• , Temse († 1989)
• Delores L Franzen († 1994)
• Denise Alphonse Alice Breesch, Sint-Truiden, België († 2012)
• Delores L. Franzen, fortasse, somewhere in IA († 1994)
• Aagje Stolk, Zoetermeer († 2016)

• Adrianna | Adriana van der KNAAP (48), Deil (Gld.), Neth
• Adrianus Commandeur (52), Zuid-Schermer
• Aart Goudriaan (62), haarlemmermeer (noord holland)
• Aagot Midling (45), Paris, Île-de-France, Frankreich
• Aloïsius van Slembrouck (54), Vladslo,8600,West-Vlaanderen,België
• (Stillborn) WIEKEL (0), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Adriana Lambregts (58), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• * Arnoldus Franciscus van Malssen (63), Gorinchem
• Barend Kruimer (48), Buitenzorg (Ned.Indië)
• Albert van Bergen (55), Eelde, Tynaarlo, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1929 » Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
• 1930 » Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress
• 1930 » John Polkinghorne, English physicist, theologian and priest
• 1931 » Charles Colson, American lawyer and politician († 2012)
• 1931 » P. W. Underwood, American football player and coach († 2013)
• 1931 » Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress
• 1931 » Valery Klimov, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator
• 1932 » Henry Lewis, American bassist and conductor († 1996)
• 1932 » John Grant, English journalist and politician († 2000)
• 1932 » Lucien Paiement, Canadian physician and politician († 2013)

• 1908 » Joseph Leycester Lyne, English monk (b. 1837)
• 1909 » Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, German poet and playwright (b. 1856)
• 1913 » Ralph Rose, American shot putter, discus, and hammer thrower (b. 1885)
• 1936 » Effie Adelaide Rowlands, British writer (b. 1859)
• 1937 » Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright (b. 1899)
• 1946 » Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
• 1947 » Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist (b. 1868)
• 1951 » Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895)
• 1956 » Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873)
• 1957 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (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 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.
• March 11 » Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
• March 26 » Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
• March 31 » A Transcontinental & Western Air airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
• May 1 » The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
• May 29 » Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.

The temperature on October 16, 1931 was between 10.0 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.