About the day » Sunday March 1, 1931Calender converter

• A.M. Schepers, Beek (Limb) († 2024)
• Chrit Herben, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland († 2011)
• Aslaug Vilhelmine Hansen, Krokan, Saltstraumen († 1996)
• Anna Tobben, Roermond, Nederland († 1933)
• Anna Maria Josephina Versantvoort († 2017)
• Betty Jean TITTLE, Pleasant Grove, Utah County, Utah, United States of America († 1991)
• Adriana Woutera Josephina van Besouw, Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2014)
• Holwerda († 1931)
• Augusta De Gruyter, Rijkevorsel (B), België († 1981)
• Cornelis Dalmeyer († 1986)

• Agnes Wilhelmina Keukens (76), Oudewater
• Adrianus de Vetten (69), Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Hendriks Westra (79), Roordahuizum
• Alexander Baron van Dedem (93), Brummen
• Adolf George Lennep, van (68), Baarn
• Adriana Jansen (80), Ginneken en Bavel, Nederland
• Adolf George Jonkheer van Lennep (68), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alexander Dedem, van van den Berg (93), Brummen, huis Voorstonden
• Adriaan Mertens (81), Gemeente Dongen, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Alexander M√ºller (62), Bonn, Germany

• 1926 » Robert Clary, French-American actor and author
• 1927 » George O. Abell, American astronomer, professor at UCLA, science popularizer, and skeptic († 1983)
• 1927 » Harry Belafonte, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1927 » Robert Bork, American lawyer and scholar, United States Attorney General († 2012)
• 1928 » Jacques Rivette, French director, screenwriter, and critic († 2016)
• 1929 » Georgi Markov, Bulgarian journalist and author († 1978)
• 1930 » Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist († 1980)
• 1934 » Jean-Michel Folon, Belgian painter and sculptor († 2005)
• 1934 » Joan Hackett, American actress († 1983)
• 1935 » Robert Conrad, American actor, radio host and stuntman († 2020)

• 1911 » Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1914 » Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, English soldier and politician, 8th Governor General of Canada (b. 1845)
• 1920 » John H. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Pichichi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
• 1932 » Frank Teschemacher, American Jazz musician (b. 1906)
• 1936 » Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian author and poet (b. 1871)
• 1938 » Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878)
• 1942 » George S. Rentz, American commander (b. 1882)
• 1943 » Alexandre Yersin, Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist (b. 1863)

• 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.
• January 7 » Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
• March 23 » Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
• March 31 » A Transcontinental & Western Air airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
• May 1 » The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
• October 1 » Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.
• December 9 » The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.

The temperature on March 1, 1931 was between -2.7 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.