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• Evert van den Bor, Putten († 2004)
• Daniel Marcel Parmentier
• Francisca Cornelia van Loon, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1975)
• Auwert Wouda († 1996)
• Annabelle Williams, Monroe County, Iowa († 2015)
• Adriaan Beverwijk, Assen,, Drenthe, Nederland († 1998)
• Afra Mosch, Warmenhuizen († 2015)
• Andries Jacobus Adriana van Bergeijk, Eindhoven († 2009)
• Elizabeth van Helden, Moerkapelle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2004)
• Cornelis Snikkers, Rotterdam († 2015)

• Arie Looij (70), Wilnis, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Kleiman (74), Rotterdam
• Antje Jans Kooistra (70), Wommels, Hennaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Fraaijman (66), Alkmaar
• Adriaan Bowier (74), Voorburg,Gemeente Leidschendam-Voorburg,South Holland,Netherlands
• Antje Nagtegaal (63), Dirksland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Joanna Michielsen (0), Meerle, België
• Antje Jans Kooistra (70), Wommels, Hennaarderadeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Abraham van Deutekom (67), Varik
• Bernardina Theodora Louwers (11), Bladel

• 1929 » Peter Thomson, Australian golfer († 2018)
• 1929 » Vera Miles, American actress
• 1929 » Vladimir Beekman, Estonian poet and translator († 2009)
• 1929 » Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian footballer († 1997)
• 1930 » Michel Rocard, French civil servant and politician, 160th Prime Minister of France († 2016)
• 1931 » Barbara Eden, American actress and singer
• 1931 » Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 » Enos Nkala, Zimbabwean soldier and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence († 2013)
• 1932 » Houari Boumediene, Algerian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Algeria († 1978)
• 1932 » Mark Russell, American comedian and pianist

• 1924 » Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (b. 1856)
• 1926 » Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
• 1927 » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1888)
• 1927 » Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1891)
• 1933 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
• 1937 » Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)
• 1949 » Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (b. 1858)
• 1954 » Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877)

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 25 » The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
• July 1 » United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
• August 24 » Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
• September 18 » The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
• October 21 » A secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.

The temperature on August 23, 1931 was between 5.8 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.