* 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

** Donald Barthelme, American writer ( b. 1931 )

It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the play by Donald Davis and Owen Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck The film was directed by Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming ( uncredited ) and Gustav Machaty ( uncredited ).

Andre Sennwald, who reviewed the film for The New York Times upon its April 1931 release, called it " just another gangster film at the Strand, weaker than most in its story, stronger than most in its acting, and, like most, maintaining a certain level of interest through the last burst of machine-gun fire "; Woods and Cagney give " remarkably lifelike portraits of young hoodlums " and " Beryl Mercer as Tom's mother, Robert Emmett O ' Connor as a gang chief, and Donald Cook as Tom's brother, do splendidly.

It was also at WENR where the Jordans met Donald Quinn, a cartoonist who was then working in radio, and the couple hired him as their writer in 1931.

* Donald R. Dwight ( 1931 –), Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1971 to 1975.

* Donald Heins ( 1927 – 1931 )

Donald " Don " King ( born August 20, 1931 ) is an American boxing promoter, whose career highlights include promoting " The Rumble in the Jungle " and the " Thrilla in Manila ".

The parent company moved its operations to Kansas in 1931, and so Jack, along with Donald Douglas, established a " Northrop Corporation " located in El Segundo, California, which produced several successful designs, including the Northrop Gamma and Northrop Delta.

In 1931, Donald Healey won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a 4½-litre Invicta.

Jacobi met August Derleth in January 1931 when Derleth was visiting Minneapolis to see Donald Wandrei.

The original members were three students ; Jimmy Sacca ( born July 26, 1929, Lockport, New York ), Donald McGuire ( born October 7, 1931, Hazard, Kentucky ), and Seymour Spiegelman ( October 1, 1930 – February 13, 1987 ).

* Crafton, Donald ( 1997 ), The Talkies: American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926 – 1931, Charles Scribner's Sons ISBN 0-684-19585-2

* In 1931 – 32 Donald Bradman scored the highest score ever at the ground in Test Cricket, compiling 299 * against South Africa.

Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York ( 1931 ) – Essays include: " Adventurous Hunting " by Kermit Roosevelt, " Scouting Against the Apache " by Frederick R. Burnham, " How I Learned to Fly " by Orville Wright, " An Arctic Mirage " by Donald B. MacMillan, " In the Arctic " by Lincoln Ellsworth, " A Tobacco Trade " by George Bird Grinnell, " The Black Ghosts of the Tana River " by James L. Clark, " My Flight Over the Atlantic " by Richard Evelyn Byrd, " In the Jungles of Cochin-China " by Theodore Roosevelt, " Shipwreck " by Robert A. Bartlett, " Written in the Air " by Charles Lindbergh, " Tiger!

The character was portrayed in many silent movie versions of the story and in talking movies, and was played by Paul Wegener in a 1927 German silent film of the same name, by John Barrymore in a a 1931 version, by Donald Wolfit in a 1954 version in Technicolor, and by Peter O ' Toole in a 1983 made-for-television modernized version, also in colour, co-featuring Jodie Foster.

* Donald Charles Cameron ( politician ) ( 1879 – 1960 ), Nationalist Party of Australia MHR for Brisbane, Queensland, 1919 – 1931, United Australia Party MHR for Lilley, Queensland, 1934 – 1937

* Norman Cameron ( politician ) ( Donald Norman Cameron, 1851 – 1931 ), Free Trade Party MHR for Tasmania 1901 – 1903, for Wilmot, Tasmania, 1904 – 1906

Donald Kennedy ( born August 18, 1931 ) is an American scientist, public administrator and academic.

He was maintenance foreman at a Chrysler plant ( 1931 – 1934 ) before joining the Donald Miller Company.

After marrying Donald Gledhill, an assistant to the executive secretary of the Academy, she moved to Hollywood, California in 1931 and ultimately became the Academy's first librarian.

Donald Eugene Webb ( born Donald Eugene Perkins on July 14, 1931 ) is an American career criminal and fugitive wanted for attempted burglary and the murder of police chief Gregory Adams in the small community of Saxonburg, Pennsylvania on December 4, 1980.

Donald Eugene Perkins was born in Oklahoma City in 1931.

Grimmett was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1931, the same year as Donald Bradman.