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• Adriana Maria Hesp, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2020)
• Anna, Neeltje Littel, Hoogblokland († 2008)
• Carlos Nuñez Cardenas, Culiacán, Sinaloa, México († 2011)
• Christina Anna Donders, Blerick, Limburg, Nederland († 1944)
• Augusta Wilhelmina de Koningh, Vught
• Helena Maria (Lenie) van Gorkum, Rotterdam († 2019)
• Hendrik Jonkman, Hoogkerk, Nederland († 2001)
• Antonia Minor the Younger Augusta, Rome, Kennebec, Maine, United States († 1937)
• Donald Eugene Milwee, Harlan County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 2004)
• Casi Jacobs, Borsbeek, België († 2016)

• Antonius Maria Mickers (22), Boekel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annie Elizabeth Peterson (81), Union, Arkansas, United States
• Baleke Kriek (67), Woudrichem,North Brabant,Netherlands
• Anna BOSMAN (59), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Albertus van Essen (74), Woudenberg, Utrecht, Nederland
• Abraham Cohen (10), Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie van Buuren (61), Langbroek, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alphonse Dieudonné Joseph TOMBAL (74), Oreye (Otrange),4360,Liège,Wallonie,BELGIQUE
• Albert Johannes Huitzing (68), Onstwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Arend Beunk (80), Woolde, gemeente Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1934 » Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 2005)
• 1934 » Ernesto Brambilla, Italian motorcycle racer and race car driver
• 1934 » Gene DeWeese, American author († 2012)
• 1934 » James Franciscus, American actor and producer († 1991)
• 1935 » Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1936 » Can Bartu, Turkish former basketball and football player
• 1937 » Andrée Boucher, Canadian educator and politician, 39th Mayor of Quebec City († 2007)
• 1937 » Philip Glass, American composer
• 1937 » Regimantas Adomaitis, Lithuanian actor
• 1937 » Suzanne Pleshette, American actress († 2008)

• 1923 » Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (b. 1869)
• 1933 » John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1942 » Henry Larkin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 1954 » Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Vivian Woodward, English captain and footballer (b. 1879)
• 1955 » John Mott, American activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1956 » A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright, created Winnie-the-Pooh (b. 1882)
• 1958 » Karl Selter, Estonian politician, 14th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1898)
• 1960 » Auguste Herbin, French painter (b. 1882)

• 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
• March 8 » Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
• June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
• July 6 » A major breach of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet (61m) into the River Irwell.
• August 1 » The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
• September 7 » The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
• November 20 » José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.

The temperature on January 31, 1936 was between 5.5 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 11.6 mm of rain during 10.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.