About the day » Friday October 2, 1931Calender converter

• Gerrit de Vreede († 2004)
• Belia Clazina DOGTEROM, Zoetermeer,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2018)
• Arend Klok, Ambt Hardenberg, Overijssel, Netherlands († 2017)
• Carolus Lambertus Maria Vrienten, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1986)
• Dick de Boeff, Dordrecht († 2013)
• Bontje Holm, Amsterdam († 1999)
• Gerrit Jan Hans, Oud-Lutten († 2017)
• Alida Helena (Lidy) Schuller, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1973)
• Bastiaan Johannes Alexander Diepstraten, Vlaardingen († 2001)
• Carolus Lambertus Maria Vrinten, Kaatsheuvel († 1986)

• Antoine Vermeersch (0), Poelkapelle, Belgium
• Adriana Christiana Theodora Kerkhof (24), Dinther
• Groot (85), Zwaagdijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Beatrix de Lange (76), Purmerend
• Antonia maria de Kort (46)
• Anna Cornelia Schijvenaars, Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Brechtje Dijkhuis (70), Ulrum, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelia Rijsdijk (81), Rhenen, Nederland
• "Louis" Joseph Marie Alphonse du Breil de Pontbriand (46), Saint-Laurent-des Mortiers, Mayenne, France
• Carl William Frederick Trinkwald (78), Sayville, Suffolk, New York, Verenigde Staten

• 1928 » George McFarland, American actor († 1993)
• 1928 » Wolfhart Pannenberg, Polish-German theologian and academic († 2014)
• 1929 » Moses Gunn, American actor († 1993)
• 1929 » Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman († 1996)
• 1930 » Dave Barrett, Canadian social worker and politician, 26th Premier of British Columbia († 2018)
• 1932 » Maury Wills, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
• 1933 » Dave Somerville, Canadian singer (The Diamonds) († 2015)
• 1933 » John Gurdon, English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1933 » Phill Niblock, American composer and director
• 1934 » Richard Scott, Baron Scott of Foscote, South African-English lawyer and judge

• 1920 » Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 » Alexandru Averescu, Romanian field marshal and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
• 1938 » André Lagache, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1943 » John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
• 1947 » P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1953 » John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Humphrey Barclay, English priest (b. 1882)
• 1955 » William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1881)
• 1962 » Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1859)

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 31 » An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000.
• May 29 » Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
• June 23 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
• July 1 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.
• August 24 » Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
• October 1 » The George Washington Bridge in the United States, linking New Jersey and New York, is opened.

The temperature on October 2, 1931 was between 9.9 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.