About the day » Monday March 2, 1931Calender converter

• Christiaan Matla († 2000)
• Albertha Anonia Boerrigter, Hengelo († 2019)
• Catharinna de Reuver, Utrecht, Gemeente Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 2005)
• Adriana Martens, Rotterdam († 2020)
• Alice Arline Traver, Kingston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania († 2011)
• Catharina Wijnanda van Daal, Baarn († 2017)
• Abraham Schoneveld, Rijnsburg († 1989)
• Eduard Petrus Paul Verheul, Dordrecht († 1996)
• Abraham Ariensz Schoneveld, Rijnsburg († 1989)
• Anna Maria Josefina Offermans, Heerlen († 2000)

• Antonetta Gertruda Goemans (71), Rotterdam
• Anna Slob (78), Brandwijk
• Alida Fikkert (85), Barneveld
• Alida Hopster (85), Barneveld (GL)
• Aleida (Alida) Hopster (87), Barneveld (GL)
• Ane Sjoerds de Groot (1), Berlikum, Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Abraham Roest (67), Vierpolders
• Agatha Maria Johanna Wiegel (70), Amsterdam
• Antonia Steffens (73), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie van Vulpen (67), Bodegraven, Nederland

• 1926 » Bernard Agré, Ivorian cardinal († 2014)
• 1926 » Murray Rothbard, American economist and historian († 1995)
• 1927 » Roger Walkowiak, French cyclist and economist († 2017)
• 1930 » Emma Penella, Spanish actress († 2007)
• 1930 » John Cullum, American actor and singer
• 1930 » Tom Wolfe, American journalist and author († 2018)
• 1931 » Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian lawyer and politician, President of the Soviet Union, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 » Gun Hägglund, Swedish journalist and translator († 2011)
• 1934 » Dottie Rambo, American singer-songwriter († 2008)
• 1935 » Gene Stallings, American football player and coach

• 1921 » Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1850)
• 1930 » D. H. Lawrence, English novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1885)
• 1938 » Ben Harney, American pianist and composer (b. 1871)
• 1939 » Howard Carter, English archaeologist and historian (b. 1874)
• 1943 » Gisela Januszewska, Jewish-Austrian physician (b.1867)
• 1944 » Ida Maclean, British biochemist, the first woman admitted to the London Chemical Society (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Emily Carr, Canadian painter and author (b. 1871)
• 1946 » Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1895)
• 1946 » George E. Stewart, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
• 1947 » Frans Johan Louwrens Ghijsels, Dutch architect and urban planner (b. 1882)

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 25 » The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
• May 1 » The Empire State Building is dedicated in 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.
• July 16 » Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
• August 24 » France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality pact.
• October 1 » Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.

The temperature on March 2, 1931 was between -4.9 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged -0.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.