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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1931 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Events Arts and literature Awards New books Music Film - Ray Milland appears in The Bachelor Father, Strangers May Kiss, Just a Gigolo, Son of India, Bought, Ambassador Bill, and Blonde Crazy.
Broadcasting - The BBC's Daventry radio transmitter increases its Welsh language output from a monthly to a fortnightly "Welsh interest" programme and includes a regular religious service broadcast entirely in Welsh.
Sport Births - 10 January - Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids, politician
- 2 February - Glynn Edwards, actor
- 20 March - Orig Williams, wrestler and TV presenter
- 22 March - Leslie Thomas, novelist
- 11 April - Lewis Jones, rugby player
- 23 June - Brian Sparks, Wales international rugby union player
- 2 July - Frank Williams, actor
- 13 July - Philip Jones, businessman and civil servant (d. 2000)
- 1 September - Mair Wynn Hughes, children's author
- 25 September - Dafydd Rowlands, Eisteddfod-winning author (d. 2001)
- 5 November - John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon, politician
- 27 November - Gareth Griffiths, Wales and British Lions rugby union player
- 27 December - John Charles, footballer (d. 2004)
- date unknown - Christopher Evans, computer scientist (d. 1979)
Deaths - 22 February - Sir Hugh Vincent, solicitor and Wales international rugby player, 68
- 3 March - Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell, 65
- 13 March - Vernon Hartshorn MP, miners' leader and politician
- 13 March - Edward Thomas John, politician
- 14 April - John Bryn Roberts, lawyer and politician, 88
- 19 April - Evan Richards, Wales international rugby player, 69
- 12 May - Beddoe Rees, industrialist and politician
- 22 June - Sir Henry Reichel, academic
- 28 July - John Neale Dalton, chaplain and tutor to the British royal family, settled in South Wales, 91
- 7 October - William John Griffith, author
- 26 October - Edward Perkins Alexander, Wales rugby international, 68
- 2 November - Arthur Cook, miners' leader, 47
- 27 December - Alfred Perceval Graves, Irish author settled in Wales, 85
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