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• Cornelia Couwenberg, Loon op Zand, NB Netherlands († 2012)
• Arnold John Abbas, Lakota, Kossuth County, Iowa († 2008)
• Cornelis KAPTEIJN, Den Haag († 2005)
• Albert Boeve († 1984)
• Cornelis Kapteyn († 2005)
• Cornelia Maria DE VROOME, Amsterdam (NL/NH) († 1986)
• Catharina Antje de Boer, Brunssum († 2021)
• Charles Mitchell ****, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten († 1985)
• Antonius Cornelis van der Roest, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland The Netherlands († 2005)
• Antonius Cornelis van der Roest, Den Haag († 2005)

• Anna van Woerkom (72), Barmen, Duitsland
• Cornelis Dirksz Hogenbirk (68), Bussum
• Dirk Forma (82), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adolph Valintine ALTROCK (33), Cincinnati Ohio U.S.A
• Agnes Jansen (84), Waddinxveen
• Bernardus Damhuis (61), Losser
• Charles Louis DOBBELAER (76), Sint Jansteen, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus Hurks (87), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernardus Nads Damhuis (61), Losser, Nederland
• arie van ANTWERPEN (68), strijen

• 1927 » Anjali Devi, Indian actress and producer († 2014)
• 1929 » Betty Dodson, American author and educator
• 1929 » Yasser Arafat, Egyptian-Palestinian engineer and politician, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority († 2004)
• 1930 » Jackie Brenston, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist († 1979)
• 1930 » Roger McCluskey, American race car driver († 1993)
• 1932 » Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, English cardinal († 2017)
• 1932 » Richard Meale, Australian pianist and composer († 2009)
• 1932 » Robert D. Hales, American captain and religious leader († 2017)
• 1933 » Prince Rupert Loewenstein, Spanish-English banker and manager († 2014)
• 1934 » Kenny Baker, English actor († 2016)

• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1898)

• 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.
• January 21 » Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
• March 3 » The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
• March 5 » The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.
• March 31 » An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000.
• 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.
• October 1 » Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.

The temperature on August 24, 1931 was between 4.3 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.