About the day » Tuesday March 17, 1931Calender converter

• Frans Johannes van Doorn, Geervliet († 2016)
• christina maria louisa (tiny) zetsen, maasbree († 2018)
• Cornelis van der Linden, Hendrik Ido Ambacht († 2001)
• Cornelis van der Vliet, Nootdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1931)
• Perdok, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1931)
• Evert Jan van den Vlekkert, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 2009)
• David Eugene Adams, High Hill, MO († 2008)
• Arendje Maartje Aandewiel, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2020)
• Bernardus Gerardus Suijker, Vlaardingen († 1986)
• Cornelis van der Vliet, Pijnacker († 1932)

• Aart van der Meijde (90), Spijkenisse
• Adriana Giesselbach (0), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aart van der Meijde (90), Spijkenisse, Nederland
• Antonius van Mourik (0), Bunnik (Utrecht)
• Anna Kreutzjans (53)
• Abigael Kremer (80), Coopersville (Ottawa, Michigan, USA)
• Aartje Ruisseveen (89), Renswoude, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alphonsus Johannes Arnoldus Donders (17), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Adalgisa Ferreira Baltar (51), Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil
• Aartje Visser (67), Streefkerk

• 1927 » Betty Allen, American soprano and educator († 2009)
• 1928 » William John McKeag, Canadian businessman and politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba († 2007)
• 1930 » James Irwin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut († 1991)
• 1930 » Paul Horn, American-Canadian flute player and saxophonist († 2014)
• 1931 » David Peakall, English-American chemist and toxicologist († 2001)
• 1931 » Patricia Breslin, American actress († 2011)
• 1933 » Myrlie Evers-Williams, American journalist and activist
• 1933 » Penelope Lively, English author
• 1935 » Adam Wade, American singer, drummer, and actor
• 1935 » Fred T. Mackenzie, American biologist and academic

• 1917 » Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838)
• 1926 » Aleksei Brusilov, Georgian-Russian general (b. 1853)
• 1937 » Austen Chamberlain, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Philomène Belliveau, Canadian artist (b. 1854)
• 1946 » Dai Li, Chinese general (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Aleksandra Ekster, Russian-French painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Fred Allen, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
• 1956 » Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1957 » Ramon Magsaysay, Filipino captain and politician, 7th President of the Philippines (b. 1907)
• 1958 » John Pius Boland, Irish tennis player and politician (b. 1870)

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.
• February 3 » The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
• February 20 » The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
• March 5 » The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.
• April 14 » The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
• 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.
• December 11 » Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland.

The temperature on March 17, 1931 was between -1.4 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.