* Neil Postman, ( 1931 – 2003 ) author, media theorist and cultural critic,

Alfons Maria Jakob ( 2 July 1884, Aschaffenburg / Bavaria – 17 October 1931, Hamburg ) was a German neurologist with important contributions on neuropathology.

* 1866 – Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church ( d. 1931 )

* 1931 – Baba Ram Dass, American Hindu spiritual teacher

* 1931 – Ivan Dixon, American actor and director ( d. 2008 )

* 1931 – Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet and songwriter ( d. 1995 )

* 1931 – Sri Chinmoy, Bengali-American spiritual teacher, poet, and painter ( d. 2007 )

* 1931 – Joe Cunningham, American baseball player

* 1931 – Chalmers Johnson, American scholar and author ( d. 2010 )

* 1931 – Chuck Essegian, American baseball player

* 1931 – Mário Zagallo, Brazilian footballer and coach

* 1931 – Pierre DuMaine, American bishop

* 1931 – Eddie Fuller, South African cricketer ( d. 2008 )

* 1931 – Viliam Schrojf, Slovak footballer ( d. 2007 )

* 1931 – Ramblin ' Jack Elliott, American singer-songwriter

* 1931 – Trevor Goddard, South African cricketer

* 1958 – Peter Collins, English race car driver ( b. 1931 )

Franciszek Bujak ( 1875 – 1953 ) and Jan Rutkowski ( 1886 – 1949 ), the founders of modern economic history in Poland and of the journal Roczniki Dziejów Spolecznych i Gospodarczych ( 1931 – ), were attracted to the innovations of the Annales school.

* 1862 – Victoria of Baden ( d. 1931 )

* 1868 – Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician ( d. 1931 )

* 1879 – Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer ( d. 1931 )

* 1931 – Charles E. Rice, American scholar and author

* 1931 – Roger Penrose, English physicist

* April 20 – Daniel Chester French, American sculptor ( d. 1931 )

Daniel Ellsberg ( born April 7, 1931 ) is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U. S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.

Daniel Irvin " Dan " Rather, Jr. ( born October 31, 1931 ) is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News.

Daniel Irvin Rather, Jr. () was born on October 31, 1931, in Wharton County, Texas, the son of Daniel Irvin Rather, Sr., and the former Byrl Veda Page.

Daniel Chester French ( April 20, 1850 – October 7, 1931 ) was an American sculptor.

According to Robert F. Collins of the Forest Service, Thomas R. Frazier ( born July 7, 1931 ; died February 1, 2008 ) was the first District Ranger of the Redbird Purchase Unit, and is credited as being a major factor in the success of the Redbird land purchasing unit (" A History of the Daniel Boone National Forest ", dedication page, 1975 ).

Daniel Domingo Salamanca Urey ( July 8, 1863 – July 17, 1935 ) was President of Bolivia from March 5, 1931 until he was overthrown in a coup d ' état on November 27, 1934, during the country's disastrous Chaco War with Paraguay.

In 1931, his party joined forces with the Republicano-Genuino party of Daniel Salamanca for the general elections, and Tejada was sworn-in as Salamanca's Vice-President in March of that year.

Tassinari in his book states that Florio ’ s style was highly appreciated, first by his friend playwright Ben Jonson and poet, brother in law, Samuel Daniel ; then by Florio ’ s biographers Clara Longworth de Chambrun ( 1921 ), Frances Yates ( 1934 ) and critics Felix Otto Matthiessen ( 1931 ) and André Koszul ( 1931 ).

* Daniel Chester French ( 1850 – 1931 ), American sculptor

Daniel Sexton Gurney ( born April 13, 1931 ) is an American racing driver, race car constructor, and team owner.

Pappy O ' DanielIn 1931, Burrus Mill's president, W. Lee " Pappy " O ' Daniel, wanted to link radio and advertising to promote the company's Light Crust Flour.

* Daniel Draper ( 1841 – 1931 )

Daniel Michael Tellep ( born 1931 ) is a U. S. aerospace businessman.

The term pluralistic ignorance was coined by Daniel Katz and Floyd H. Allport in 1931.

Moving to Berlin with the company, she studied singing with Oskar Daniel for three months and made her debut as an operatic singer by singing Mimi in Puccini's opera La Bohème at Dresden Semperoper on 15 March 1931.

Royal Hibernian Academy ( RHA ), submitting a total of 42 canvases from 1925-late 1960s. Engineer's Hall ( 1931 ) with artists Marion King and Olive Cunningham ; a solo exhibition at St Stephen's Green Gallery ( 1934 ); a solo show at the Daniel Egan Gallery, Dublin ( 1936 ), which was repeated in Drogheda ; the Water Colour Society of Ireland ( 1939 ).

In 1931, he joined the German-Russian League Against Bolshevism, the members of which, Daniel Lazare remarks, " for the most part either were Nazis or soon would be ".

Frederick William Nolan ( born 7 March 1931 in Liverpool ) is an English editor and writer, mostly known as Frederick Nolan, but also using the pen names Donald Severn, Daniel Rockfern, Christine McGuire and Frederick H. Christian.

Daniel Ford ( born 1931 ) is an American journalist, novelist, and historian.

Others include the French mathematician and scientist Henri Poincaré ( about 1906 ), the physicist Arthur Holly Compton ( 1931, 1955 ), the philosopher Karl Popper ( 1965, 1977 ), the physicist and philosopher Henry Margenau ( 1968, 1982 ), the philosopher Daniel Dennett ( 1978 ), the classicists A.

Daniel Read Anthony, Jr. ( August 22, 1870 – August 4, 1931 ) was an American Republican politician and a nephew of suffragist and political leader Susan B. Anthony.