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• Adriana Anna Antonia Petronella Wirken, Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2002)
• Arie Koorn, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2014)
• Adriaan Cornelis Hilleman († 1984)
• Antonia Agatha Hazenberg, Arnhem († 2002)
• Dirk Rijsdijk, Sprang-Capelle († 2000)
• Adelheid (Attie) Heijmeijer († 1988)
• Allegonda van den Broek, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2002)
• Doodgeboren kind van Beijnen, Boxmeer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1931)
• Andrea VAN DEN BERGE, Denderleeuw,9470,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 2006)
• Dale (Jack) Grotenhuis, Newkirk, Sioux, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2012)

• Arie de Graaf (70), Sneek, Nederland
• Antonie van Otterloo (74), Culemborg
• Aaltje van Hooijdonk (42), Den Helder
• Berendina van Engeland (67), Beekbergen
• Albertus de WOLDE (65), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria de Poorter (64), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie Otterloo (74), Everdingen, Utrecht, NL
• Berendina Hendriks van Engeland (67), Apeldoorn
• Anna Maria Drost (85), Rhenen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adelaïde Eugenia Van den Driessche (70), Wingene

• 1928 » Emily McLaughlin, American actress († 1991)
• 1928 » Malachi Throne, American actor († 2013)
• 1929 » David Doyle, American actor († 1997)
• 1930 » Joachim Hoffmann, German historian and author († 2002)
• 1930 » Marie Bashir, Australian psychiatrist, academic, and politician, 37th Governor of New South Wales
• 1931 » George Maxwell Richards, Trinidadian politician, 4th President of Trinidad and Tobago († 2018)
• 1931 » Jim Nesbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2007)
• 1931 » Jimmy Lyons, American saxophonist († 1986)
• 1933 » Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor († 2006)
• 1933 » Violette Verdy, French ballerina († 2016)

• 1914 » Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (b. 1840)
• 1916 » Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (b. 1858)
• 1923 » Virginie Loveling, Belgian author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1928 » José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian-American lawyer and poet (b. 1888)
• 1933 » Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (b. 1865)
• 1934 » Sergey Kirov, Russian engineer and politician (b. 1886)
• 1935 » Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and educator (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Aleister Crowley, English magician, poet, and mountaineer (b. 1875)
• 1947 » G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1877)

• 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.
• February 3 » The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
• March 19 » Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
• 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.
• July 1 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.
• July 16 » Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.

The temperature on December 1, 1931 was between -1.0 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.