* 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 – 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

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

* Ivan Kalyayev (" Kaliaev " in the 1931 translation of Savinkov's Memoirs of a Terrorist )

Ivan Klíma ( born 14 September 1931, Prague ) is a Czech novelist and playwright.

The novel has been adapted for the screen three times: 1931 film by Ivan Pravov and Olga Preobrazhenskaya, a second, 1958 adaption was directed by Sergei Gerasimov and starred Elina Bystritskaya and Pyotr Glebov.

* Secretary: Pietro Nenni ( 1931 – 1945 ), Sandro Pertini ( 1945 – 1946 ), Ivan Matteo Lombardo ( 1946 – 1947 ), Lelio Basso ( 1947 – 1948 ), Alberto Jacometti ( 1948 – 1949 ), Pietro Nenni ( 1949 – 1963 ), Francesco De Martino ( 1963 – 1968 ), Mauro Ferri ( 1968 – 1969 ), Francesco De Martino ( 1969 – 1970 ), Giacomo Mancini ( 1970 – 1972 ), Francesco De Martino ( 1972 – 1976 ), Bettino Craxi ( 1976 – 1993 ), Giorgio Benvenuto ( 1993 ), Ottaviano Del Turco ( 1993 – 1994 )

* Ivan Gronsky ( 1931 – 1937 )

In the German context, the " Three Arrows " logo was a socialist symbol designed by Sergei Tschachotin, former assistant to the physiologist Ivan Pavlov in 1931.

Ivan Dixon ( April 6, 1931 – March 16, 2008 ) was an American actor, director, and producer best known for his series role in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes, for his role in the 1967 telefilm The Final War of Olly Winter, and for directing hundreds of episodes of television series.

* Ivan Klíma ( born 1931 ), Czech author

* January 20-Fred Dixon, politician ( d. 1931 )

In 1930, he composed the music for the song " Cheerful Little Earful " for the Billy Rose Broadway revue, Sweet and Low, and composed the music, with lyrics by Mort Dixon and Joe Young, for the Ed Wynn Broadway revue The Laugh Parade in 1931.

* " I Found a Million Dollar Baby ( In a Five and Ten Cent Store )" ( 1931 ) w. Billy Rose and Mort Dixon for Crazy Quilt

* " Ooh That Kiss " ( 1931 ) w. Mort Dixon and Joe Young for The Laugh Parade

* " The Torch Song " ( 1931 ), w. Dixon and Young for The Laugh Parade

* " You're My Everything " ( 1931 ) w. Dixon and Young for The Laugh Parade

For the 1931 Broadway show The Laugh Parade, Young collaborated with co-lyricist Mort Dixon and composer Harry Warren on " You're My Everything ".

Fred Dixon ( January 20, 1881 – 1931 ) was a Manitoba politician, and was for several years the dominant figure in the province's mainstream labour movement.

* Adrian Rogers ( 1931 – 2005 ), American pastor, conservative, author

* 1859 – Charles Comiskey, American baseball player and manager ( d. 1931 )

* 1931 – William Goldman, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

* 1931 – Bill Shoemaker, American jockey ( d. 2003 )

* 1931 – Hal Fishman, American journalist ( d. 2007 )

* 1931 – Regis Philbin, American actor, singer, and television host

* 1931 – Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1931 – Jack Swigert, American astronaut ( d. 1982 )

* 1990 – Thurston Harris, American singer ( b. 1931 )

* 1890 – Art Acord, American actor and rodeo rider ( d. 1931 )

* 1931 – Malcolm Browne, American journalist and photographer ( d. 2012 )

* 2007 – Andrew Hill, American bandleader, composer, and pianist ( b. 1931 )

* 1931 – Donald Barthelme, American author ( d. 1989 )

* 1931 – Daniel Ellsberg, American military analyst

* 2007 – Johnny Hart, American cartoonist ( b. 1931 )

" Benjamin Franklin ," Dictionary of American Biography ( 1931 ) – vol 3, with hot links online

Chicago: American Library Association, 1931.