* 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

" Hop Picking ", by Eric Blair, appeared in the October 1931 issue of New Statesman, whose editorial staff included his old friend Cyril Connolly.

Norway which had become independent of Sweden in 1905 eventually protested and claimed Eric the Red's Land in eastern Greenland in 1931.

She worked with British poet, critic, and musician Eric Walter White on several films, and he wrote the early book-length essay on her work – Walking Shadows: An Essay on Lotte Reiniger's Silhouette Films, ( London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf, 1931 ).

The expression " the map is not the territory " first appeared in print in a paper that Alfred Korzybski gave at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1931: In Science and Sanity, Korzybski acknowledges his debt to mathematician Eric Temple Bell, whose epigram " the map is not the thing mapped " was published in Numerology.

The New Guard was founded in Sydney in February, 1931 by a group of concerned citizens, one of whom was Col. Eric Campbell, a First World War veteran asked to act as leader.

* Eric William Ives ( born 1931 ), English historian

While attempts to climb Kamet began in 1855, the first ascent was not made until 1931 by Frank Smythe, Eric Shipton, R. L.

John Eric Littlewood ( 25 May 1931 – 16 September 2009 ) was for many years a leading British chess player and took the title of national senior champion in 2006.

The place had disappeared from the tourist map due to its inaccessibility, but in 1931, Frank S. Smythe, Eric Shipton and R. L.

The inscription on his father's slate headstone in Pelynt churchyard is the work of Eric Gill, 1931.

Eric Tappy ( born May 19, 1931 ) is a Swiss operatic tenor.

Eric William Ives, OBE ( 12 July 1931 – 25 September 2012 ) was a British historian and an expert on the Tudor period.

* Eric Fogg, Concerto ( 1931 )

His father, Eric was an opening batsman who played once for Western Australia, against the touring South African cricket team in 1931 – 32.

The present building, designed by Poole and architect Henry Ives Cobb ( 1859 – 1931 ), opened in 1893.

The Newberry Library in the present day. Henry Ives Cobb ( August 19, 1859 – March 27, 1931 ), born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Albert Adams and Mary Russell Candler Cobb, was a Chicago-based architect in the last decades of the 19th century, known for his designs in the Romanesque and Victorian Gothic styles.

* Bingley St Ives Golf Course, Harden, Bingley, West Yorkshire ( 1931 ).

* 1931 – John Shirley-Quirk, English opera singer

* 1999 – Anthony Newley, English actor, singer, and songwriter ( b. 1931 )

* 1931 – Garfield Morgan, English actor ( d. 2009 )

* 1887 – Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter ( d. 1931 )

The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.

English and British statutes are part of Canadian law because of the Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865, section 129 of the Constitution Act, 1867, and the Statute of Westminster 1931.

Claude Piron ( 26 February 1931 – 22 January 2008 ) was a psychologist and a translator for the United Nations ( from Chinese, English, Russian and Spanish into French ) from 1956 to 1961.

Annotated edition of 11 diaries kept by the English writer, beginning in late August 1931 and ending in September 1949, a few months before his death.

* 1839 – Arthur Tooth, English clergyman ( d. 1931 )

* 1931 – Colin Wilson, English writer

* 1931 – Lawrie Dring, English scout leader, founded World Federation of Independent Scouts ( d. 2012 )

* 1931 – Peter Barnes, English writer ( d. 2004 )

* 1931 – Ian Hendry, English actor ( d. 1984 )

* John Brown ( footballer born 1866 ) ( 1866 – 1931 ), English footballer for Notts County

* John Nash ( cricket administrator ) ( 1906 – 1977 ), English Secretary of Yorkshire County Cricket Club, 1931 – 1971

* 2006 – Lynne Perrie, English actress ( b. 1931 )

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

* 1931 – Sir Terence Conran, English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer

* 1931 – John le Carré, English novelist

At first he translated from English ( from Fitzgerald's " translations ") ( 1922 ), after that from original language ( 1931 ).

* 1931 – Cecil Parkinson, English politician

* 1847 – Fanny Holland, English actress and singer ( d. 1931 )