About the day » Monday May 11, 1931Calender converter

• Charles H. Beach, Verenigde Statn († 1999)
• Adrianus Petronella van Broekhoven, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2015)
• Dorothy Louise Hunt, Florida († 1997)
• André Roger VANDEWALLE († 1932)
• Barbara Mae Anderson ****, Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1993)
• Berendina van den Hardenberg, Elspeet († 2008)
• André Desideer CREUS, Gits († 1994)
• Ben van Raak, Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2015)
• Anna Catharina Theodora (Annie) de Gier, Heerlen († 1997)
• Antonius Maria Sikking, Hilversum († 1931)

• Ale Jelkes van der Hoek (0), Akkrum, Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Vroegop (73), den bommel (goeree overflakkee)
• Adrienne Jacqueline Desiree VAN KERKWIJK (57), Den Haag Zuid-Holland Netherlands
• Bernard Hendrikus Hupkes (45), Renkum(Heelsum)
• Adrianus Dielen (80), Princenhage (Noord-Brabant, Nederland)
• Adrienne Jacqueline Desiree Van Kerkwijk (57), 's-Gravenhage, South Holland, Netherlands
• Annigje Boeve (81), Kampen
• Adriana Jacqueline Desirée van Kerkwijk (57), 's Gravenhage
• Aleida Haagsma (74), Hilversum {NH}
• Antje Popma (27), Geldrop, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1925 » Edward J. King, American football player and politician, 66th Governor of Massachusetts († 2006)
• 1927 » Bernard Fox, British actor († 2016)
• 1927 » Gene Savoy, American explorer, author, and scholar († 2007)
• 1930 » Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist and academic († 2002)
• 1930 » Stanley Elkin, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist († 1995)
• 1932 » Valentino Garavani, Italian fashion designer
• 1933 » Louis Farrakhan, American religious leader
• 1934 » Jack Twyman, American basketball player († 2012)
• 1934 » Jim Jeffords, American captain, lawyer, and politician († 2014)
• 1935 » Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist and author († 2007)

• 1908 » Charles Kingston, Australian politician, 20th Premier of South Australia (b. 1850)
• 1916 » Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
• 1918 » George Elmslie, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Victoria (b. 1861)
• 1920 » James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1878)
• 1920 » William Dean Howells, American novelist, literary critic, and playwright (b. 1837)
• 1927 » Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
• 1929 » Jozef Murgaš, Slovak-American priest, architect, botanist, and painter (b. 1864)
• 1938 » George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (b. 1858)
• 1955 » Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
• 1960 » John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)

• 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 13 » The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
• March 5 » The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.
• March 23 » Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
• August 24 » France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality pact.
• September 30 » Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
• October 21 » A secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.

The temperature on May 11, 1931 was between 7.6 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.