About the day » Monday August 17, 1931Calender converter

• Cornelis Maria Pardoel, Velddriel († 2008)
• Antonia Johanna Roestenburg, Son en Breugel († 2018)
• Darwin Dye [Wk BdpPwkObFwktLksdMGBu]Wk3, Pointer, Pulaski County, Kentucky († 2013)
• Bede Evelyn Dominick Elwes, Billing, Northamptonshire, Royaume-Uni († 1975)
• Brian Stuart Theobald Somerset Caher Butler († 1992)
• Cornelis Korthof, Kedichem (Leerdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Anne Sophia Sikora, Weirton, Hancock County, West Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• Charles William Bradshaw († 1995)
• Albertje de Vries, Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland († 2020)
• Nienhuis, Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Christianus Albertus Henricus van den Heuvel, Utrecht
• Cornelis Schipper (68), Heinkenszand
• Carolina Been (29), Rotterdam
• Cornelis Hendriks Vet (78), gouda
• Alem Britton Gensel (63), Berwick, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Bartje van de Put (86), Doornspijk
• Antonius Govert van der Aa (61), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alice CASTELEIN (0), Wijtschate
• Amy Toba Dinte (77), Sutherland, New South Wales, Australia
• Cornelis Vet (78), Gouda

• 1928 » T. J. Anderson, American composer, conductor, and educator
• 1928 » Willem Duys, Dutch tennis player, sportscaster, and producer († 2011)
• 1929 » Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot († 1977)
• 1930 » Harve Bennett, American screenwriter and producer († 2015)
• 1930 » Ted Hughes, English poet and playwright († 1998)
• 1931 » Tony Wrigley, English historian, demographer, and academic
• 1932 » Duke Pearson, American pianist and composer († 1980)
• 1932 » Jean-Jacques Sempé, French cartoonist
• 1932 » V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-English novelist and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2018)
• 1933 » Mark Dinning, American pop singer († 1986)

• 1918 » Moisei Uritsky, Russian activist and politician (b. 1873)
• 1920 » Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
• 1924 » Tom Kendall, English-Australian cricketer and journalist (b. 1851)
• 1925 » Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1848)
• 1935 » Adam Gunn, American decathlete (b. 1872)
• 1935 » Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (b. 1860)
• 1936 » José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (b. 1880)
• 1940 » Billy Fiske, American soldier and pilot (b. 1911)
• 1945 » Reidar Haaland, Norwegian police officer and soldier (b. 1919)
• 1949 » Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino journalist, jurist, and politician (b. 1891)

• 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 20 » The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
• March 14 » Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
• August 24 » Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
• October 21 » A secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.
• December 9 » The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
• 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 August 17, 1931 was between 12.4 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.