About the day » Thursday May 7, 1931Calender converter

• Eual D nalley († 1993)
• Abraham Reinders, Apeldoorn († 2001)
• Blanche de Jong, Fairlawn, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• Antonius van der Voort, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2018)
• Cantalício Epifânio Rosa, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 2001)
• Bernard J Hoagland, Peru, Miami, Indiana, United States († 2014)
• Adriana Maria van Houtum, Vorstenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1934)
• Brian John DREW († 2004)
• Cornelis Christiaan van Delft, Drunen († 1993)
• Janssens, Sappemeer, Groningen, Nederland († 1931)

• Adriaan Leemans (87), Princenhage
• Adriaan de Clercq (75), Aerdenhout
• Alstje Geerling (61), Kent County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Teuben- (70), Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Maria Verkouter (81), Vlaardingen
• Alva Myrtle Rhoades (40), Shasta County, California, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Gesina Schulte (69), Düthe, Fresenburg, Niedersachsen, Deutschland
• Anna Maria (Johannes Wijnandus Boerma) Teuben (70), Groningen, Groningen (NL)
• Anton Joseph Knoben (54)
• Anna van den Heuvel (81), Werkendam, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1929 » Dick Williams, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 2011)
• 1930 » Babe Parilli, American football player and coach († 2017)
• 1930 » John Smith, Baron Kirkhill, English politician
• 1930 » Totie Fields, American comedian and author († 1978)
• 1931 » Gene Wolfe, American author († 2019)
• 1931 » Teresa Brewer, American singer († 2007)
• 1932 » Alan Cuthbert, English pharmacologist and academic († 2016)
• 1932 » Derek Taylor, English journalist and author († 1997)
• 1932 » Jordi Bonet, Spanish-Canadian painter and sculptor († 1979)
• 1932 » Pete Domenici, American lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Albuquerque († 2017)

• 1917 » Albert Ball, English fighter pilot (b. 1896)
• 1922 » Max Wagenknecht, German pianist and composer (b. 1857)
• 1924 » Alluri Sitarama Raju, Indian activist (b. 1897/1898)
• 1925 » William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician (b. 1851)
• 1937 » Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and author (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Octavian Goga, Romanian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1881)
• 1940 » George Lansbury, English journalist and politician (b. 1859)
• 1941 » James George Frazer, Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1942 » Felix Weingartner, Croatian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1943 » Fethi Okyar, Turkish colonel and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1880)

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.
• February 3 » The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
• February 13 » The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
• 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.
• October 1 » The George Washington Bridge in the United States, linking New Jersey and New York, is opened.

The temperature on May 7, 1931 was between 9.2 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 55.2 mm of rain during 10.9 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.