About the day » Thursday April 2, 1931Calender converter

• Donald E Bergman, New Hartford, Butler County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Annie Damen († 1994)
• Antonia Joanna Cornelia van Grinsven, Tilburg († 2009)
• Dirk LAGARDE, Rotterdam († 2013)
• Christina Elisabeth van der Wal, Den Helder († 2009)
• Darlene Louise Baumgart, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1974)
• Alice Van den Wyngaert, Ekeren, Antwerpen († 1991)
• Berendina Snippe, Winterswijk
• Antonius Lambertus POLMAN, Elst, Gelderland, Nederland († 1976)
• Cecil Wilburn Stevens, Caddo, Louisiana, United States († 1995)

• Arie Klok (53), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aletta Henriette Giesbertz (53), Nijmegen
• Alletta Henriette Giesbertz (53), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Emil Friedrich Krenzke (15), Winona, Winona, Minnesota, United States
• Arend Pruntel (58), De Wijk, Drenthe, Nederland
• Antonius Hubertus Kneepkens (60), Eindhoven
• Antje Bolhuis (74), Epe
• Anna Maria Gertrudis Troquet (31), Geulle (Meerssen), Limburg, Nederland
• Albertus Wouters Rosingh (76), amersfoort
• Adrianus (Janus) de Groot (63), Rossum

• 1928 » David Robinson, Northern Irish horticulturist and academic († 2004)
• 1928 » Joseph Bernardin, American cardinal († 1996)
• 1928 » Roy Masters, English-American radio host
• 1928 » Serge Gainsbourg, French singer-songwriter, actor, and director († 1991)
• 1929 » Ed Dorn, American poet and educator († 1999)
• 1930 » Roddy Maude-Roxby, English actor
• 1931 » Vladimir Kuznetsov, Russian javelin thrower († 1986)
• 1932 » Edward Egan, American cardinal († 2015)
• 1933 » György Konrád, Hungarian sociologist and author
• 1934 » Paul Cohen, American mathematician and theorist († 2007)

• 1914 » Paul Heyse, German author, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Bryn Lewis, Welsh international rugby player (b.1891)
• 1923 » Topal Osman, Turkish colonel (b. 1883)
• 1928 » Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1930 » Zewditu I of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
• 1933 » Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (b. 1872)
• 1936 » Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Édouard Estaunié, French novelist (b. 1862)
• 1948 » Sabahattin Ali, Turkish journalist, author, and poet (b. 1907)
• 1953 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885)

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.
• 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.
• January 21 » Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
• April 14 » The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
• July 16 » Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
• 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 April 2, 1931 was between -0.6 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.