About the day » Saturday September 26, 1931Calender converter

• Adriana Maria van Buuren, Sint Michielsgestel († 2022)
• Bernard Heinrich Heller, Barger-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2005)
• Andrea Salman, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Elisabeth Antoinetta Hubertina Kirkels († 2018)
• Hoven, Delfzijl, Groningen, Nederland († 1931)
• Franciscus Johannes Cornelius Schalkwijk, Goirle († 2008)
• Daniël De Coninck, Eke († 2000)
• Bertha Coppers, Sint-Truiden, België († 2008)
• Arnoldus Hubertus Cornelis Vereijken, Eindhoven († 2013)
• Clifton Scott Miller, Kentucky, United States († 2014)

• Cornelis Johannes Boulonois (70), Rockanje,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia van der Linden (47), Papendrecht
• Cornelia Petronella Romijn (80), Voorhout, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ds. Gijsbertus Steenkamer (63), Venlo
• Antonia Maria Cornelia van Will, Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Carolina Jannetje Zwepink (77), Deventer
• Aris Budding (59), Veenendaal
• Charles Mast (48), Hoboken
• Cornelis Middelweerd (50), Houten, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Alida Catharina de Goede (68), Oegstgeest, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1928 » Bob Van der Veken, Belgian actor († 2019)
• 1928 » Wilford White, American football player († 2013)
• 1930 » Joe Brown, English mountaineer and author
• 1930 » Philip Bosco, American actor († 2018)
• 1931 » Kenneth Parnell, American sex offender († 2008)
• 1932 » Donna Douglas, American actress († 2015)
• 1932 » Joyce Jameson, American actress († 1987)
• 1932 » Manmohan Singh, Indian economist and politician, 13th Prime Minister of India
• 1932 » Vladimir Voinovich, Russian author and poet († 2018)
• 1934 » Neil Coles, English golfer and architect

• 1922 » Charles Wade, Australian politician, 17th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1863)
• 1935 » Andy Adams, American author (b. 1859)
• 1935 » Iván Persa, Slovene-Hungarian priest and author (b. 1861)
• 1937 » Bessie Smith, American singer and actress (b. 1894)
• 1943 » Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (b. 1926)
• 1945 » Béla Bartók, Hungarian pianist and composer (b. 1881)
• 1946 » William Strunk, Jr., American author and educator (b. 1869)
• 1947 » Hugh Lofting, English-American author and poet (b. 1886)
• 1951 » Hans Cloos, German geologist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1952 » George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet (b. 1863)

• 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 23 » Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
• March 26 » Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
• March 31 » A Transcontinental & Western Air airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
• 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.
• September 18 » The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
• October 1 » The George Washington Bridge in the United States, linking New Jersey and New York, is opened.

The temperature on September 26, 1931 was between 5.2 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.