About the day » Tuesday July 31, 1945Calender converter

• Drue David Kennon, Houston (Harris), Texas, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Ludo Nijs, Halle-Booienhoven, België († 2012)
• Anna Wilhelmina Rupert, Ambt Delden, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1949)
• Pieter de Haan, Loenen aan de Vecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 2007)
• H.J. Nijland († 2007)
• NN Bosloper, Gouda († 1945)
• Gerstina Wilhelmina Bogaards, Den Haag, Nederland († 1945)
• Nicolaas Roubos, Dordrecht († 2010)
• Grietje Tabak, Leeuwarden, Nederland († 2008)
• Eva Jacoba Lieftink, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1999)

• Anthonius Timotheus Smink (35), Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anthonius Cornelis van Leeuwen (47), Hillegom
• Marinus van den Berk (9), 's Hertogenbosch
• Anna Maria van der Cruissen (76), Helmond
• Aart Haverkamp (68), Nunspeet, Nederland
• Bartje van der Molen (81), Blokzijl
• Alexandrina Louisa Maud Vane-Tempest (81)
• Arij van der Jagt (67), Rotterdam
• aart leendert NOORDZIJ (66), rotterdam
• Alexander Gans (26), Midden Europa,MID

• 1943 » Lobo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 » William Bennett, American journalist and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Education
• 1944 » David Norris, Irish scholar and politician
• 1944 » Geraldine Chaplin, American actress and screenwriter
• 1944 » Jonathan Dimbleby, English journalist and author
• 1944 » Robert C. Merton, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1944 » Sherry Lansing, American film producer
• 1945 » William Weld, American lawyer and politician, 68th Governor of Massachusetts
• 1946 » Gary Lewis, American pop-rock musician
• 1947 » Karl Green, English bass player and songwriter

• 1940 » Udham Singh, Indian activist (b. 1899)
• 1942 » Francis Younghusband, British Army Officer, explorer and spiritual writer (b.1863)
• 1943 » Hedley Verity, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1905)
• 1944 » Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and poet (b. 1900)
• 1953 » Robert A. Taft, American soldier and politician (b. 1889)
• 1954 » Onofre Marimón, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1923)
• 1958 » Eino Kaila, Finnish philosopher and psychologist, attendant of the Vienna circle (b. 1890)
• 1964 » Jim Reeves, American singer-songwriter (b. 1923)
• 1966 » Bud Powell, American pianist (b. 1924)
• 1968 » Jack Pizzey, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Queensland (b. 1911)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Robert
9. Petrus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Wilhelmus
13. John
14. Gerardus
15. Dirk
16. Jacob

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Margaretha
13. Geertruida
14. Irene
15. Mary
16. Helena

• 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 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
• The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
• January 9 » World War II: The Sixth United States Army begins the invasion of Lingayen Gulf.
• February 8 » World War II: Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111.
• April 29 » Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.
• April 30 » World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
• May 2 » World War II: A death march from Dachau to the Austrian border is halted by the segregated, all-Nisei 522nd Field Artillery Battalion of the U.S. Army in southern Bavaria, saving several hundred prisoners.
• August 16 » The National Representatives' Congress, the precursor of the current National Assembly of Vietnam, convenes in Sơn Dương.

The temperature on July 31, 1945 was between 7.9 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.