Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1931
January-February
March-April
May-June
July-August
September-October
November-December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January-February
- January 5
- January 6 - E. L. Doctorow, American author
- January 8 - Bill Graham, German concert promoter (d. 1991)
- January 10 - Peter Barnes, English playwright and screenwriter (d. 2004)
- January 12 - Roland Alphonso, Jamaican musician (d. 1998)
- January 13 - Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (d. 2007)
- January 14 - Caterina Valente, French singer and actress
- January 16 - Johannes Rau, President of Germany (d. 2006)
- January 17 - James Earl Jones, American actor
- January 19
- January 20 - David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- January 22 - Sam Cooke, American singer (d. 1964)
- January 26 - Alfred Lynch, English actor (d. 2003)
- January 27 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (d. 2001)
- January 30 - Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author
- January 31 - Ernie Banks, baseball player
- February 1 - Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia (d. 2007)
- February 2
- February 6 - Rip Torn, American actor and director
- February 8 - James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)
- February 9 - Thomas Bernhard, Dutch author (d. 1989)
- February 11 - Larry Merchant, American author and boxing commentator
- February 13 - Geoff Edwards, American actor and game show host
- February 16
- February 18 - Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
- February 18 - Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- February 18 - Bob St. Clair, American football player
- February 24 - Brian Close, British cricketer
- February 25 - Eric Edgar Cooke, Western Australian Murderer (d. 1964)
- February 26 - Ally McLeod, Scottish football manager
- February 28 - Dean Smith, American basketball coach
March-April
May-June
- May 6 - Willie Mays, baseball player
- May 7 - Teresa Brewer, American pop and jazz singer (d. 2007)
- May 13
- May 14 - Alvin Lucier, American composer
- May 15
- May 16 - Natwar Singh, Indian politician
- May 18 - Robert Morse, American actor
- May 19 - Eric Tappy, Swiss tenor
- May 20 - Ken Boyer, baseball player (d. 1982)
- May 25 - Georgi Grechko, cosmonaut
- May 30 - Fr. John O'Brien, Irish priest and musician (d. 2008)
- May 31
- June 3 - Lindy Remigino, American athlete
- June 7 - Malcolm Morley, English-born painter
- June 9 - Jackie Mason, American comedian
- June 9 - Joe Santos, American actor\
- June 10 - João Gilberto, Brazilian musician
- June 13 - Moysés Baumstein, Brazilian Holographer and artist
- June 14 - Ross Higgins, Australian actor
- June 27 - Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
July-August
- July 1 - Leslie Caron, French actress'
- July 4 - Stephen Boyd, Irish actor (d. 1977)
- July 5 - Ismail Mahomed South African and Namibian Chief Justice (d. 2000)
- July 6 - Della Reese, American singer and actress
- July 10 - Nick Adams, American actor (d. 1968)
- July 10 - Alice Munro, Canadian writer
- July 23 - Te Atairangi Kaahu, Māori Queen (d. 2006)
- July 26 - Fred Foster, American songwriter and record producer
- July 27 - Jerry Van Dyke, American comedian and actor
- August 7 - Charles E. "Charlie" Rice, Legal Scholar and Author
- August 12 - William Goldman, American author
- August 15 - Joe Feeney, American singer (d. 2008)
- August 15 - Florian ZaBach, American musician and TV personality (d. 2006)
- August 18 - Bramwell Tillsley, General of The Salvation Army
- August 19 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003)
- August 23 - Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- August 25 - Hal Fishman, Los Angeles based local news anchor. (d. 2007)
- August 25 - Regis Philbin, American television personality
- August 28 - John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone
- August 30 - Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
- August 31 - Jean Béliveau, Canadian hockey player
- August 31 - Kenny Burrell, American jazz musician
September-October
- September 8 - Jack Rosenthal, English playwright (d. 2004)
- September 12 - George Jones, American singer and songwriter, king of country music
- September 17 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
- September 21 - Larry Hagman, American actor
- September 22
- September 23 - Gerald Stairs Merrithew, Canadian educator and statesman (d. 2004)
- September 29
- September 30
- October 6 - Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 7
- October 13 - Eddie Mathews, baseball player (d. 2001)
- October 15 - Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, President of India
- October 16
- October 17 - Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian writer
- October 19 - John le Carré, English novelist
- October 20 - Mickey Mantle, baseball player (d. 1995)
- October 23
- October 25 - Jimmy McIlroy, Irish footballer and football manager
- October 31 - Dan Rather, American television news reporter
November-December
- November 3
- November 3 -
- November 5 - Ike Turner, American singer and songwriter (d. 2007)
- November 15 - Mwai Kibaki, third President of Kenya
- November 21
- November 23 - Dervla Murphy, Irish author
- November 26 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- November 28 - Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003)
- December 1
- December 2
- December 11 - Rita Moreno, Academy award-winning Puerto Rican actress
- December 12 - Lionel Blair, British actor, choreographer, tap dancer, headmaster and TV presenter
- December 23 - Ronnie Schell, American actor
- December 24 - Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer
- December 30 - Skeeter Davis, American singer (d. 2004)
- December 31 - Bob Shaw, Irish writer (d. 1996)
Deaths
January - June
- January 11 - James Milton Carroll, Baptist pastor, historian, and author (b. 1852)
- January 14 - Hardy Richardson, baseball player (b. 1855)
- January 22 - Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
- January 23 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (b. 1881)
- February 11 - Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (b. 1854)
- February 16 - Wilhelm von Gloeden, German photographer (b. 1856)
- February 23 - Dame Nellie Melba, Australian soprano (b. 1861)
- February 26 - Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)
- March 5 - Arthur Tooth, Anglican clergyman (b. 1839)
- March 7 - Akseli Gallén-Kallela, Finnish painter (b. 1865)
- March 11 - F.W. Murnau, German director (b. 1888)
- March 20 - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
- March 21 - Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary (b. 1908)
- March 27 - Arnold Bennett, novelist (b. 1867)
- March 31 - Knute Rockne, American football coach (b. 1888)
- April 8 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
- April 10 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)
- April 30 - Sammy Woods, English cricketer (b. 1867)
- May 9 - Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- May 14 - David Belasco, American writer (b. 1853)
July - December
- July 4 - Buddie Petit, American jazz musician
- July 12 - Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1866)
- August 6 - Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1903)
- August 26 - Hamaguchi Osachi, 27th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1870)
- August 27
- September 5 - John Thomson, Scottish footballer (b. 1909)
- October 13 - Ernst Didring, Swedish writer (b. 1868)
- October 18 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)
- November 11 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
- December 2 - Vincent d'Indy, French composer (b. 1851)
- December 5 - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
- date unknown - Joseph Tabrar, British songwriter (b. 1857)
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