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• Graeme Way († 2022)
• Linda Antonissen, Antwerpen († 2007)
• Michael J Mccaughey, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• Joke Lensen († 2007)
• Jan Zwiers
• Roland Herinckx, Tienen, België († 2023)
• Johannes Gabriel Bassant, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Hendrikus Carolus Gerardus Marie Kusters
• N.N. Roel, Nieuwer Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1956)
• Jane Ann Carrier, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2000)

• Antonius Coertjens (76), Princenhage
• Antonius (antoon) Ostendorp (86), Didam, Nederland
• Antonius (Anton) OSTENDORP (86), Didam (NL)
• Anna Margaretha Gerders- (82), Emmerschans, Nederland
• Anna Maria Sijstermans (43), Schleiden (D)
• Adrianus Pieter Leonardus de Koning (48)
• Alfred Laware (80), Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, Verenigde Staten
• Aalderieks Busscher (90), Winschoten (gem. Oldambt)
• Anna Margaretha Gerdes (82), Emmerschans, Emmen
• Antje Bos (83), Oude-Pekela, Groningen, Nederland

• 1950 » András Adorján, Hungarian chess player and author
• 1950 » Ed Marinaro, American football player and actor
• 1950 » Sandra Morgen, American anthropologist and academic († 2016)
• 1953 » Dennis Kamakahi, American guitarist and composer († 2014)
• 1955 » Angus Young, Scottish-Australian guitarist and songwriter
• 1955 » Svetozar Marović, President of Serbia and Montenegro
• 1957 » Alan Duncan, English businessman and politician, former Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
• 1959 » Markus Hediger, Swiss poet and translator
• 1961 » Howard Gordon, American screenwriter and producer
• 1961 » Ron Brown, American sprinter and football player

• 1939 » Ioannis Tsangaridis, Greek general (b. 1887)
• 1944 » Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
• 1945 » Frank Findlay, New Zealand banker and politician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Hans Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1950 » Robert Natus, Estonian architect (b. 1890)
• 1952 » Wallace H. White, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1877)
• 1956 » Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver and actor (b. 1884)
• 1968 » Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1970 » Semyon Timoshenko, Soviet Commander during the Winter War and the Eastern Front of World War II (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Percy Alliss, English golfer (b. 1897)

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

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

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.8 million citizens.
• June 30 » A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners.
• October 14 » Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of India's Untouchable caste, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism).
• October 28 » Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV.
• November 4 » Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution against the Soviet Union that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
• November 12 » Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
• November 22 » The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XVI Olympiad, are opened in Melbourne, Australia.

The temperature on March 31, 1956 was between 3.9 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.