* 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 – 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

In 1931 he was invited to the prestigious Academy of Arts in Berlin, Germany, where he studied with Leonid Kreutzer.

* Alone ( 1931 film ), a Soviet film by Leonid Trauberg and Grigori Kozintsev

* 1931 – Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician ( d. 1980 )

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.

* 1869 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician ( d. 1931 )

* 2004 – Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer ( b. 1931 )

Gorbachev was born on 2 March 1931 in Stavropol, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, into a mixed Russian-Ukrainian family of migrants from Voronezh and Chernigov Governorates.

The eight-page Azerbaijani satirical periodical was published in Tiflis ( from 1906 to 1917 ), Tabriz ( in 1921 ) and Baku ( from 1922 to 1931 ) in the Azeri and occasionally Russian languages.

* 1931 – Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer

* 1855 – Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general ( d. 1931 )

* 1931 – Valery Klimov, Russian violinist

* February 12 – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina ( d. 1931 )

Nicholas refused to grant the bride or their son, George Mikhailovich ( 1910 – 1931 ) a title initially, legitimising George and incorporated him into the Russian nobility under the name " Brassov " in 1915, although he used the title of count under the monarchy from 1915 and, along with his mother, was granted a princely prefix in exile by Cyril Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia in 1928.

Anna Pavlova (; – January 23, 1931 ) was a Russian ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th century.

In 1931, she played the World War I spy in Mata Hari, opposite screen idol Ramón Novarro, and in 1932 she was part of an all-star cast in Grand Hotel in which she played a Russian ballerina.

The city had a significant Jewish population: 30, 000 out of 45, 000 total population according to Russian 1897 census, which fell to 21, 000 out of 50, 000 according to the Polish 1931 census.

)-Felix Blumenfeld, Russian composer, pianist ( died 1931 )

The Seversky Aircraft Company was founded in 1931 by Alexander de Seversky, a Russian expatriate and veteran World War I pilot who had lost a leg in the war.

From 1931 to 1944 and from 1954 to 1990, its name in both Russian and Ossetic languages was Ordzhonikidze () ( after Sergo Ordzhonikidze, a Georgian Bolshevik ), and from 1944 to 1954 it was officially called Dzaudzhikau () in Russian and Dzæwdžyqæw () in Ossetic.

On November 7, 1931, the anniversary of the 1917 Russian Bolshevik Revolution, a National Soviet People's Delegates Conference was held in Ruijin ( 瑞金 ), Jiangxi province.

* Problems of the development of the U. S. S. R .; draft of the thesis of the International left opposition on the Russian question by Leon Trotsky, New York, Communist League of America 1931 ( with Morris Lewitt )

In 1931 the Joint State Political Administration Board imposed another wave of punishments on research officers of various establishments of the Academy of Sciences, Russian Museum, Central Archives and others.

Previously the word praxiology, with the meaning Espinas gave to it, was used by Tadeusz Kotarbiński ( in 1923 ) and some time later by several economists, such as the Ukrainian, Eugene Slutsky ( 1926 ) in his attempt to base economics on a theory of action, the Austrian Ludwig von Mises ( 1933 ), the Russian, Nikolai Bukharin ( 1888 – 1938 ) during the Second International Congress of History of Science and Technology in London ( in 1931 ), and the Pole, Oscar Lange ( 1904 – 1965 ) in 1959, and later.

Harriman & Co. ( renamed Harriman Brothers & Company in 1927 ) well-positioned for this enterprise and rich in assets from their German and Russian business, merged with the British-American investment house Brown Bros. & Co. on January 1, 1931.