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• Aleida Antonia Davina, Oldenzaal († 1932)
• Adriana Geertruida Minderhoud, Kloetinge, Nederland († 2003)
• Clarence Earl Eizenga († 2015)
• Geerit Rietveld, Papendrecht († 2017)
• Adrianus Govardus Brands, Steenbergen (Steenbergen en Kruisland) (Noord-Brabant) († 1998)
• Friedrich Gerhardus (Frits) MIGGELBRINK, Silvolde, Oude IJsselstreek (NL) († 2008)
• Geertrui Paans, Sprang-Capelle († 1983)
• Francisca Theodora Hofmans, Rotterdam († 2008)
• Arybert Rudolf Everts, Waalwijk († 2021)
• Asser Mossel, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)

• Adrianus Petrus Van Den Bogaard (1), Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland, Nederland
• America (Casdorph) MCCALLISTER (68), Kanawha, West Virginia, United States
• Auktje (Sierts) de VRIES (77), Oldekerk, Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Bartholomeus Gerritsen van der Hoop (84), Schiedam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Arthur Dalrymple FORBES-GORDON (57)
• Abraham van Biene (49), Gorinchem, Nederland
• Christina FRISO (75), Leeuwarden
• Adrianus Gerardus van Gelder (3), IJsselmonde
• Auktje Sierts DE VRIES (77), Oldekerk Groningen Netherlands
• Antonia Limper (38), Zeist

• 1928 » Billy Martin, American baseball player and coach († 1989)
• 1929 » Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist, and feminist († 2012)
• 1929 » Betty Carter, American singer-songwriter († 1998)
• 1929 » Claude Morin, Canadian academic and politician
• 1929 » John Conyers, American lawyer and politician († 2019)
• 1930 » Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist and composer († 2000)
• 1931 » Hana Brady, Jewish-Czech Holocaust victim (d.1944)
• 1931 » K. Natwar Singh, Indian scholar and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs
• 1931 » Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., American soldier and politician, 85th Governor of Connecticut
• 1931 » Vujadin Boškov, Serbian footballer, coach, and manager († 2014)

• 1913 » Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)
• 1926 » Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan (b. 1861)
• 1936 » Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (b. 1860)
• 1938 » Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b. 1870)
• 1943 » Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist and academic (b. 1865)
• 1944 » George Ade, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1946 » Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (b. 1890)
• 1947 » Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1947 » Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (b. 1903)

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 26 » Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
• March 31 » A Transcontinental & Western Air airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
• May 14 » Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
• July 1 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.
• September 18 » The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.

The temperature on May 16, 1931 was between 10.6 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.