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• Cornelia van Snippenberg, Asperen (West Betuwe) (GL) († 2022)
• Derk Paas, Nijmegen,Gelderland,Niederlande († 1976)
• Berta de Greef, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands († 2002)
• Cornelia (Corrie) van Snippenberg, Asperen († 2022)
• Cornelia Bloem, Rotterdam († 1931)
• Adrianus Hendrikus van Weert, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1931)
• Annigje Daman, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2007)
• André Meekers, Hasselt, België († 1990)
• Elisabeth Sarton († 2000)
• Albertus van Iterson, Rijnsburg (Katwijk) († 1995)

• Antonetta de Haan (83), Weurt
• Anna Helena Maria Paul (82), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert van Waardenburg (2), Rheden
• Alphonsius Theresia Franciscus Aernouts (4), Brecht
• Aagje Blok (73), Woerden
• Anna Gerharda Teerink (73), Amsterdam
• Anna Minnes Onnes (74), Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ann Tamar (Annie) Morgan (82), Crow's Nest, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Antonia van Daelen (84), Sprang, Nederland
• Anna van Heuklon (63), Appleton-Wisconsin (USA)

• 1929 » Michael Manser, English architect and engineer († 2016)
• 1929 » Roger Bannister, English runner, neurologist and academic († 2018)
• 1931 » Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player and author († 2016)
• 1931 » Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Russian skier († 2013)
• 1931 » Yevgeny Grishin, Russian speed skater († 2005)
• 1932 » Don Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1933 » Norman Bailey, English opera singer and educator
• 1933 » Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist and academic
• 1934 » Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician and physicist († 2017)
• 1934 » Mark Rydell, American actor, director and producer

• 1910 » Nadar, French photographer, journalist, and author (b. 1820)
• 1914 » Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès, Lebanese saint (b. 1832)
• 1923 » Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian poet and author (b. 1869)
• 1927 » Paul César Helleu, French painter and etcher (b. 1859)
• 1931 » Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (b. 1907)
• 1931 » Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (b. 1908)
• 1931 » Sukhdev Thapar, Indian activist (b. 1907)
• 1953 » Oskar Luts, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1887)
• 1953 » Raoul Dufy, French painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
• 1955 » Arthur Bernardes, Brazilian politician, 12th President of Brazil (b. 1875)

• 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 26 » Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
• March 31 » A Transcontinental & Western Air airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
• July 1 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.
• October 1 » The George Washington Bridge in the United States, linking New Jersey and New York, is opened.
• 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 23, 1931 was between 6.1 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.