About the day » Friday May 15, 1931Calender converter

• Annie Ris, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1971)
• Antonius-Josephus-Hendrikus Coesel († 1996)
• Evelyn May YOST, Denver Adams Co., Colorado, Verenigde Staten († 2002)
• Dirk Gelderblom († 2011)
• Antonie GEENS, Langdorp Vlaams Brabant († 2010)
• Anne Jan (Andrew John) Weerstra, Granum, Willow Creek No. 26, Alberta, Canada († 2015)
• Daniel Franciscus Heesbeen, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1990)
• Afra Elisabeth Admiraal, Limmen († 1957)
• Aaltje Bakker, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1998)
• Anna Johanna Aleida Hogeboom, Heerde († 2008)

• Antonius Gerardus Cornelis Kool (0), Soest
• Anna Mary Schlereth (67), St. Peter &, Paul St. Louis, MO
• Catherina Anna Maria Waardeloo (83), 's Gravenhage
• Aart van der Reijden (55), Rotterdam
• antonie de BES (72), rotterdam
• Abraham Vreeken (67), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
• August Johnson (67), Chicago, Cook Co., IL
• Catharina Stienstra (67), Hoogkarspel
• Cecilia Jauregi (65), Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, México
• Adriana Bastiaanse (70), Bavel (NL)

• 1926 » Anthony Shaffer, English author, playwright, and screenwriter († 2001)
• 1926 » Clermont Pépin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator († 2006)
• 1926 » Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter († 2016)
• 1930 » Jasper Johns, American painter and sculptor
• 1931 » Ken Venturi, American golfer and sportscaster († 2013)
• 1935 » Akihiro Miwa, Japanese singer, actor, director, composer, author and drag queen
• 1935 » Don Bragg, American pole vaulter
• 1935 » Ted Dexter, Italian-English cricketer
• 1935 » Utah Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2008)
• 1936 » Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian-American actress and singer

• 1914 » Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (b. 1845)
• 1935 » Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1864)
• 1945 » Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer (b. 1881)
• 1948 » Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-American priest, founded Boys Town (b. 1886)

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 14 » Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
• March 31 » An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000.
• April 14 » The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
• May 7 » The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
• November 22 » Al-Mina'a SC is founded in Iraq.
• 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 May 15, 1931 was between 10.5 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.