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• Agnes DE Schepper, SINT-NIKLAAS († 2007)
• Alice Craeymeersch, Zarren († 2024)
• Alice Craeymeersch, Zarren,West-Vlaanderen,België († 2024)
• Antje SIJTSMA († 2003)
• Adrianus Antonius (Arie) Post, Bussum († 1983)
• Darrell R Brotherton, Iowa († 1994)
• Annie Visser, Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 2016)
• Adriana Petronella van der Kwast, Scheveningen († 1971)
• Antonius Martinus Josephus Cornelis Maria Gerritse, 's-Hertogenbosch († 2014)
• Jan Serrij, Rotterdam († 1951)

• Ariaan van ALTENA (53), Marken, Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anje Jans Juursema (76), Groningen
• Arend van der Laan (89), Hoogkerk, Groningen, Nederland
• Anke Buurma (58), Groningen
• Antje de Groot (51), Leeuwarden
• Antoon van de Velden (1), Kortenhoef, Gemeente Wijdemeren, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonius Jacobus Bersee (77), Bloemendaal
• Anje Jans Juursema (76), Groningen
• Anna Geertruida Heijneman (65), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cordula Maria Keunen- (64), Sint-Huibrechts-Lille, België

• 1929 » Graeme Ferguson, Canadian director and producer, co-founded the IMAX Corporation
• 1929 » Mariano Gagnon, American Catholic priest and author († 2017)
• 1929 » Robert Westall, English journalist and author († 1993)
• 1930 » Curtis Crider, American race car driver († 2012)
• 1931 » Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball player and coach († 2004)
• 1931 » Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 » R. Sivagurunathan, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and academic († 2003)
• 1931 » Tommy Lewis, American football player and coach († 2014)
• 1932 » Joannes Gijsen, Dutch bishop († 2013)
• 1933 » Harold Dunaway, American race car driver and pilot († 2012)

• 1911 » John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist and physician (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
• 1925 » Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
• 1926 » Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist and academic (b. 1856)
• 1933 » Alexander Peacock, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Victoria (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Harvey Williams Cushing, American neurosurgeon and academic (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (b. 1880)
• 1944 » Helmut Lent, German colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1950 » Willis Haviland Carrier, American engineer (b. 1876)
• 1951 » Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips (b. 1874)

• 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 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.
• May 14 » Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
• 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 16 » Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
• December 5 » Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin.

The temperature on October 7, 1931 was between 8.5 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 13.1 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.