About the day » Sunday October 4, 1931Calender converter

• Adelaida Smeins (Smeints) († 2009)
• Frieda Johanna Bernarda Eilers, 's-Heerenberg (Bergh) († 2013)
• Bettye Dahnelle Adcox, El Dorado, Union, Arkansas, United States († 1995)
• Anton van Vorden, Gorssel († 1985)
• Elisabeth Soeters, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 2004)
• Geertruida Maria van der Velden, Rotterdam, Nederland († 2000)
• Gerardus Cornelis De Bruin, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1998)
• Charles F Port, Muskegon, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2002)
• Christianus Antonius Hermens, Wanroij, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2005)
• Georges BILLARD, Charleroi, Henegouwen, België († 2010)

• Aaltje Schoonveld (86), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana van Leeuwen (82), Gouda
• Aaltje Arends SCHOONVELD (86), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Annigje Komduur (2), Haarlem
• Adriana van den Berg (85), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida van Twisk, Soest, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Aghatha Johanna Hendrika van der Waart (87), Voorburg
• Catharina Bruggeling (82), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Stroo (79), Biggekerke
• Adam Ooms (67), Chicago, Illinois, VS

• 1928 » Alvin Toffler, German-American journalist and author († 2016)
• 1928 » Torben Ulrich, Danish-American tennis player
• 1929 » John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author († 2004)
• 1929 » Leroy Van Dyke, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1929 » Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer († 1968)
• 1931 » Basil D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer and footballer († 2011)
• 1931 » Richard Rorty, American philosopher and author († 2007)
• 1931 » Terence Conran, English designer and businessman
• 1933 » Ann Thwaite, English author
• 1933 » German Moreno, Filipino television host and actor († 2016)

• 1904 » Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty (b. 1834)
• 1910 » Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1850)
• 1935 » Jean Béraud, French painter and academic (b. 1849)
• 1935 » Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano, actress, and director (b. 1874)
• 1943 » Irena Iłłakowicz, German-Polish lieutenant (b. 1906)
• 1944 » Al Smith, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Governor of New York (b. 1873)
• 1946 » Barney Oldfield, American race car driver and actor (b. 1878)
• 1947 » Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1951 » Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (b. 1920)
• 1955 » Alexander Papagos, Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1883)

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 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.
• August 24 » France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality pact.
• 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 4, 1931 was between 5.2 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.