About the day » Wednesday October 28, 1931Calender converter

• Alan Ernest CARTER, Chatham, Medway, Kent († 1999)
• Dirkje van Dijk, SCHIEDAM, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1995)
• Berendina Hammink, Almelo († 2022)
• Clarisse Denise Cromheecke, Maldegem († 2020)
• Donald Pennett, Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 2018)
• Clazina Stevina Vroegh, Herwijnen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2011)
• Adolphe Adolpheszn Meijer, 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1999)
• Cornelis Johannes Kaandorp, Akersloot, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Adolphe Adolphesz Meijer, 's-Gravenhage (or den Haage, The Hage), South Holland, Netherlands († 1999)
• Maas, Venlo, Nederland († 1931)

• Clasina Petronella Vring (70), Princenhage, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arendina Overbeek (71), Losser, Overijssel, Nederland
• Maas (0), Venlo, Nederland
• Aagtje Kits (64), Groningen
• Delilah Ida Watson (74), Ontario, Ontario, Canada
• Diderica Maria Joanna Roelants (77), Utrecht
• Anna Philomena van De Gender (53), Tilburg
• Adriana Vromans (84), Gilze, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alouis Mevis (0), Schinveld (Beekdaelen), Limburg, Nederland
• Antje Burger (61), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1929 » Joan Plowright, English actress
• 1929 » John Hollander, American poet, critic, and educator († 2013)
• 1929 » Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor, director, and screenwriter († 1988)
• 1929 » Virginia Held, American philosopher, author, and academic
• 1930 » Bernie Ecclestone, English businessman
• 1931 » Harold Battiste, American saxophonist, pianist, and composer († 2015)
• 1932 » Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus († 2002)
• 1932 » Suzy Parker, American model and actress († 2003)
• 1933 » Garrincha, Brazilian footballer († 1983)
• 1933 » Michael Noakes, English painter and illustrator († 2018)

• 1916 » Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
• 1916 » Oswald Boelcke, German WWI flying ace (b. 1891)
• 1917 » Dimitrios Votsis, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)
• 1918 » Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845)
• 1929 » Bernhard von Bülow, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
• 1936 » Newton Moore, Australian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1870)
• 1939 » Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1941 » Filipp Goloshchyokin, Soviet politician (b. 1876)
• 1945 » Kesago Nakajima, Japanese general (b. 1881)

• 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 25 » The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
• May 7 » The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
• September 30 » Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
• October 1 » Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.
• December 5 » Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin.
• December 9 » The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.

The temperature on October 28, 1931 was between -8.5 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.