About the day » Sunday March 8, 1931Calender converter

• Clara Keulemans († 2020)
• Anton Grewe, Buren († 2000)
• Bastiaantje Streefkerk, 's-Gravendeel († 1987)
• Clara Nelle Underwood († 2006)
• Antonius Jacobus (Anton) Burghouts, Edam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Antonius Jacobus Burghouts, Edam († 2002)
• Anna Francesca Ferdinande de Briey, Brussel († 1977)
• Antonius Jacobus Johannes Willegers, Haarlem († 1946)
• Cornelis Kik, Oude Tonge († 2015)
• Adriana Maria (Netty) DE VROOMEN, Warmond (NL/ZH) Lived Rijswijk (NL/ZH) Lived Voorburg (NL/ZH) († 2018)

• Absalon ( Abb or App) M. Ghan (81), Springfield, Greene County, Missouri
• Abraham van den Berge (63), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alfred Lee Stidham (68), Athens
• "Charles" Prosper d'Alton (73), Paris
• Agathe Ephraim (75), Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany
• Anje Norden (82), Kantens
• Adrianus Vermeulen (66), Onbekend, Hooge en Lage Mierde, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Henrica Nahuis (44), Eibergen Berkelland Gelderland Nederland
• Adrianus KEIJZER Azn (44)
• Anne Marie Paques (85), Sint-Truiden, België

• 1927 » Ramon Revilla Sr., Filipino actor and politician († 2020)
• 1929 » Hebe Camargo, Brazilian actress and singer († 2012)
• 1930 » Bob Grim, American baseball player († 1996)
• 1930 » Douglas Hurd, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• 1931 » Gerald Potterton, English-Canadian animator, director, and producer
• 1931 » John McPhee, American author and educator
• 1931 » Neil Adcock, South African cricketer († 2013)
• 1931 » Neil Postman, American author and critic († 2003)
• 1934 » Marv Breeding, American baseball player and scout († 2006)
• 1935 » George Coleman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader

• 1917 » Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
• 1923 » Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1923 » Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835)
• 1930 » Edward Terry Sanford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, United States Assistant Attorney General (b. 1865)
• 1930 » William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• 1935 » Hachikō, Japanese dog (b. 1923)
• 1937 » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1941 » Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1876)
• 1942 » José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player and theoretician (b. 1888)
• 1944 » Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916)

• 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 11 » Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
• March 15 » SSViking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
• March 31 » An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000.
• October 1 » Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.
• November 7 » The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
• December 5 » Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin.

The temperature on March 8, 1931 was between -6.7 °C and -0.3 °C and averaged -3.9 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.