About the day » Friday October 23, 1931Calender converter

• Charlotte Justine Tisera († 2000)
• Dewey Charles Dykstra, Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa († 2008)
• Freerkien Boelen, Emmercompascuum, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2017)
• Cornelis Ignatius Arnoldus Dobbe, De Zilk, Noordwijkerhout († 2009)
• Daniël Pietersz de Wolff, vlissingen († 2002)
• Coenraad VERDONK, Nieuwer Amstel († 1977)
• Agnes Van Hee († 1976)
• Albert Dockx, Hoogstraten, Antwerpen, België († 1991)
• Arnold Petrus van Eijk, Bergen
• Bastiaantje Jantien Elders, Oldenzaal, Overijssel, Nederland († 1932)

• Arthur Emanuel M√ºller (72), Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Alphonsus Carolus Berthina Luyckx (0), Geel, België
• Albert TeStroete (67), Marathon County, Wisconsin
• Antje Jongsma (22), Losser, Overijssel, Nederland
• Amanda Rosette Maria Lisette Stuenkel (51)
• Betje Velleman (66)
• Abdon Gustave Hubert Joseph Elias (63), Budel-Dorplein, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bertha Luise Emilie Westphal (85), Magdeburg
• Christiaan Veldt (61), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Betje Stokvis (85), Rotterdam

• 1929 » Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist († 2006)
• 1930 » Luis Alarcón, Chilean actor
• 1930 » Unto Mononen, Finnish musician († 1968)
• 1931 » Diana Dors, English actress († 1984)
• 1931 » Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician († 2017)
• 1931 » William P. Clark, Jr., American judge and politician, 12th United States National Security Advisor († 2013)
• 1932 » Vasily Belov, Russian novelist, poet and playwright († 2012)
• 1933 » Carlos Lemos Simmonds, sixth Vice President of Columbia († 2003)
• 1933 » Carol Fran, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1934 » Caitro Soto, Afro-Peruvian musician († 2004)

• 1915 » W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Richard McFadden, Scottish footballer and soldier (b. 1889)
• 1917 » Eugène Grasset, Swiss illustrator (b. 1845)
• 1921 » John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, founded Dunlop Rubber (b. 1840)
• 1935 » Charles Demuth, American painter and educator (b. 1883)
• 1939 » Zane Grey, American dentist and author (b. 1872)
• 1942 » Ralph Rainger, American pianist and composer (b. 1901)
• 1943 » Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (b. 1876)
• 1944 » Charles Glover Barkla, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Hana Brady, Czech holocaust victim (b. 1931)

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 15 » SSViking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
• March 26 » Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
• May 1 » The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
• November 7 » The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
• December 5 » Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin.

The temperature on October 23, 1931 was between -0.4 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.