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Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. Events January February February 10: New Delhi became capital. February 21: Ford Trimotor hijacked. March April May May 1: Empire State Building is completed. June July August September September 18: The Mukden Incident: Incident Museum in Shenyang October November December Date unknown 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 18 – Chun Doo-hwan, President of South Korea
- 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 29 – Ferenc Madl, President of Hungary
- January 30 – Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author
- January 31 – Ernie Banks, American baseball player
- February 1
- February 2
- February 6
- 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
- February 24 – Brian Close, British cricketer
- February 25 – Eric Edgar Cooke, Australian Murderer (d. 1964)
- February 26 – Ally McLeod, Scottish football manager
- February 28
March–April - March 2 – Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- March 3 – John Smith, American actor (d. 1995)
- March 4
- March 8 – Neil Postman, American media theorist and cultural critic
- March 11 – Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publisher
- March 18 – Shirley Stovroff, American female professional baseball player (d. 1994)
- March 20
- March 22
- March 24 – Connie Hines, American actress (d. 2009)
- March 26 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor and director
- March 29
- April 1
- April 5 – H ctor Olivera, Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter
- April 6 – Suchitra Sen (Roma Dasgupta), legendary Bengali actress
- April 11
- April 15 – Helen Maksagak, Canadian, first Inuk and woman to be the Commissioner of both the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (d. 2009)
- April 27 – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
- April 29
May–June - May 6 – Willie Mays, African-American 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
- May 18 – Robert Morse, American actor
- May 19 – Eric Tappy, Swiss tenor
- May 20 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player (d. 1982)
- May 25 – Georgy Grechko, Russian cosmonaut
- May 28 – Carroll Baker, American actress
- May 30 – Fr. John O'Brien, Irish priest and musician (d. 2008)
- May 31
- June 2 – Larry Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1990)
- June 3
- June 7 – Malcolm Morley, English-born painter
- June 8 – Dana Wynter, German-born American actress (d. 2011)
- June 9
- June 10 – Jo o Gilberto, Brazilian musician
- June 13 – Moys s Baumstein, Brazilian holographer and artist
- June 14
- June 18 – Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil
- June 20
- June 21 – Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy Heckler, American Secretary of Health and Human Services
- June 24 – Billy Casper, American golfer
- June 25 – Vishwanath Pratap Singh, former Prime Minister of India (d. 2008)
- June 26 – Colin Wilson, British writer
- June 27 – Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
July–August - July 1
- July 2 – Robert Ito, Canadian actor
- July 4 – Stephen Boyd, Irish actor (d. 1977)
- July 5 – Ismail Mahomed, South African and Namibian Chief Justice (d. 2000)
- July 6
- July 7 – David Eddings, American novelist (d. 2009)
- July 10
- July 11 – Tab Hunter, American actor and singer (Damn Yankees)
- July 15 – Clive Cussler, American author
- July 19 – Mary Lou Studnicka, American female professional baseball player
- July 23 – Te Atairangi Kaahu, M ori 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, American legal scholar and author
- August 9 – Mario Zagallo, Brazilian football player and manager
- August 12 – William Goldman, American author
- August 15
- August 18
- August 19 – Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003)
- August 20 – Don King, American boxing promoter
- August 23 – Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- August 25
- August 28 – John Shirley-Quirk, English bass-baritone
- August 30
- August 31
September–October - September 1
- September 4 – Mitzi Gaynor, American actress, singer and dancer
- September 8 – Jack Rosenthal, English playwright (d. 2004)
- September 10 – Philip Baker Hall, American actor
- September 12
- September 17 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
- September 21
- September 22
- September 23 – Gerald Stairs Merrithew, Canadian educator and statesman (d. 2004)
- September 29
- September 30
- October 1 – Alan Wagner, American opera critic
- 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 –
- October 19 – John le Carr , English novelist
- October 20 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995) Morris Cerullo, American Televangelist
- October 23
- October 25 – Jimmy McIlroy, Irish footballer and football manager
- October 31
November–December - November 3
- November 4 Marie Mansfield, American professional baseball player
- November 5 – Ike Turner, African-American singer and songwriter (d. 2007)
- November 6 – Mike Nichols, German-American television actor, writer and director
- November 8
- November 9 – Whitey Herzog, American baseball player
- November 12 – Bob Crewe, American singer, songwriter, manager, and producer
- November 15 – Mwai Kibaki, third President of Kenya
- November 16 – Hubert Sumlin, American blues musician
- November 21
- November 23 – Dervla Murphy, Irish author
- November 26 – Adolfo P rez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- December 1
- December 2
- December 9 – Ladislav Smoljak, Czech film and theater director, actor and screenwriter
- December 11 – Rita Moreno, Academy award winning Puerto Rican actress
- December 12 – Lionel Blair, British actor, choreographer, tap dancer, headmaster and TV presenter
- December 17 – Dave Madden, Canadian actor
- December 23 – Ronnie Schell, American actor
- December 24 – Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer (d. 2008)
- December 28 – Martin Milner, American actor
- December 30 – Skeeter Davis, American singer (d. 2004)
- December 31 – Bob Shaw, Irish writer (d. 1996)
Date unknown Deaths January–March - January 3 – Joseph Joffre, French World War I general (b. 1852)
- January 4
- 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 18 – Louis Wolheim, American actor (b. 1880)
- February 23 – Dame Nellie Melba, Australian soprano (b. 1861)
- February 26 – Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)
- February 28 – Thomas S. Rodgers, American admiral (b. 1858)
- March 5 – Arthur Tooth, Anglican clergyman (b. 1839)
- March 7 – Akseli Gall n-Kallela, Finnish painter (b. 1865)
- March 11 – F.W. Murnau, German director (b. 1888)
- March 20 – Hermann M ller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
- March 21 – Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary (b. 1908)
- March 24 – Robert Edeson, American actor (b. 1868)
- March 25 – Ida Wells, African-American lynching crusader.
- March 27 – Arnold Bennett, English novelist (b. 1867)
- March 28 – Ban Johnson, American baseball executive (b. 1864)
- March 31 – Knute Rockne, American football coach (b. 1888)
April–June - April 8 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
- April 9 – Nicholas Longworth, American politician, Speaker of the House (b. 1869)
- April 10 – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)
- April 20 – Cosmo Duff-Gordon, British baronet and Titanic survivor (b. 1862)
- April 26 – George Herbert Mead, American philosopher (b. 1863)
- April 30 – Sammy Woods, English cricketer (b. 1867)
- May 2 – George Fisher Baker, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1840)
- May 9 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- May 14 – David Belasco, American Broadway impresario, theater owner and playwright (b. 1853)
- June 2 – Joseph Farnham, American screenwriter (b. 1884)
- June 4 – Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Arab nationalist
July–September October–December - October 3 – Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (b. 1865)
- October 13 – Ernst Didring, Swedish writer (b. 1868)
- October 18 – Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)
- October 24 – Sir Murray Bisset, South African cricketer and Governor of Southern Rhodesia (b. 1876)
- November 4 – Buddy Bolden, African-American musician (b. 1877)
- November 11 – Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
- November 20 – Julius Drewe, English businessman, retailer and entrepreneur (b. 1856)
- December 2 – Vincent d'Indy, French composer (b. 1851)
- December 5 – Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
- December 18 – Jack Diamond, American gangster (b. 1897)
- December 23 – Tyrone Power, Sr., American actor (b. 1869)
- December 26 – Melvil Dewey, American librarian, inventor of Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)
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