* 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

* 1931 – synthetic rubber called neoprene developed by Julius Nieuwland ( see also: E. K.

* Alan K. Simpson ( born 1931 ), former United States Senator from Wyoming

1931 – An International Union of the Roerich Pact was found at Bruges under the guidance of a member of Belgium Committee for monument protection K. Tyulpink.

The parliament of the U. K. passed The Statute of Westminster 1931, which granted legislative independence to the six Dominions, Australia, Canada, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, New Zealand, and South Africa.

They include Welterweight Boxing Champion Storer College ( 1925 – 27 ); High Jump champion, Howard University Inter-Scholastic Games ( 1926 ); Gold Medalist in Cross Country, Storer College ( 1927 ); Back-stroke Swimming Champion and No. 3 swimmer in Freestyle Relay team, Howard University ( 1928 ); Captain, Lincoln University Soccer Team ( 1930 ); Winner Two Miles Run, Central Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association Championships at Hampton Institute Virginia ( 1931 ); Bronze Medalist, Richmond Cross Country Marathon ( 1931 ); Gold Medalist in the 1, 000 yard run, One Mile Run and Three Mile Run, Catedonian Games in Brooklyn, NY ( 1932 ); Silver Trophy winner in the Half Mile race, and Silver Cup winner in the One Mile Race, Democratic Field Day Championships, New Haven, Connecticut ( 1933 ); Runner-up ( with G. K. Dorgu ) at the Lagos Tennis Men ’ s Double Championships ( Division B 1938 ); anchor man for the ZAC team which won the 50 yards Freestyle Relay at the Lagos Swimming Championships ( 1939 ).

His optimism was such a contrast to his grim-sounding international contemporaries that Time magazine made him their 1931 Man of the Year, an honour never bestowed on a Frenchman before, following Mohandas K. Gandhi and preceding Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In 1931, Colonel Stephens died, and the management of the K & ESR came under the control of William Henry Austen, who had been assistant to Stephens for a number of years.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | Mohandas K. Gandhi in Darwen, 26 September 1931 with Mirabehn ( Madeleine Slade ).

One of Darwen's biggest claims to fame is that it hosted a visit from Mohandas K. Gandhi in 1931.

* Arthur Irving ( born 1931 ), Canadian industrialist, son of K. C.

* Conrad K. Cyr ( 1931 -), senior judge United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

In fact, when Y ′ CbCr is designed ideally, the values of K < sub > B </ sub > and K < sub > R </ sub > are derived from the precise specification of the RGB color primary signals, so that the luma ( Y ′) signal corresponds as closely as possible to a gamma-adjusted measurement of luminance ( typically based on the CIE 1931 measurements of the response of the human visual system to color stimuli ).

In 1931, when the U. K. left the gold standard, Colombia shifted its peg to the U. S. dollar, at a rate of 1. 05 pesos = 1 dollar, a slight devaluation from its previous peg.

Claude Dornier 1931 in front of a Dornier Do K | Dornier Do K-3

Therefore on Monday 16th of February 1931, the first National Ploughing contest took place in Mr W. K.

* One Hundred and one Ballades ( 1931 ) with E. C. Bentley G. K. Chesterton C. K.

Arthur L. Irving, OC ( born 1931 ) is the second son of industrialist K. C.

Tomasz K. Bartkiewcz ( 1865 – 1931 ) was a Polish composer and organist, co-founder of the Singer Circles Union ( Związek Kół Śpiewackich ).

* Trevaskis, H. K. ( 1931 ) The Punjab of Today, 2 vols, Lahore, Dewey, C., ( 1978 ) ‘ Patwari and Chaukidar: subordinate officials and the reliability of India ’ s agricultural statistics .’ Pp 280-314, cited in Dewey, C. and Hopkins, A. G. ( 1978 ), The Imperial Impact: Studies in the Economic History of Africa and India, Athlone Press.

One collaboration was the 1931 Aluminaire House, designed for an exhibition, and later sold to New York architect Wallace K. Harrison for $ 1000.

Studies published in 1930 written independently by Lebedev, the American Wallace Carothers and the German scientist Hermann Staudinger led in 1931 to one of the first successful synthetic rubbers, known as neoprene, which was developed at DuPont under the direction of E. K.