* 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

Michael and Mary was adapted to cinema in 1931.

They had two children: Gillian Mary Baverstock ( 15 July 1931 – 24 June 2007 ) and Imogen Mary Smallwood ( born 27 October 1935 ).

Gavin MacLeod ( born Allan George See, February 28, 1931 ) is an American actor notable for playing Joseph " Happy " Haines on McHale's Navy, Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat.

During their marriage they had three children: Mary Louise ( 4 / 21 / 1931 ), William Eugene ( 8 / 9 / 1933 ), Robert Frank ( 5 / 10 / 1935 ).

Mary Pickford giving President Herbert Hoover a ticket for a film industry benefit for the unemployed, 1931

* Mary ( 1931 film ), a 1931 Alfred Hitchcock film

Starring Mary Clare and Edward Sinclair as the Marryot parents and featuring John Mills, Moya Nugent, Arthur Macrae, and Maidie Andrews in supporting roles, Cavalcade premiered on 13 October 1931.

For a number of years, Gaynor was the Fox studios foremost actress and was given the choice of prime roles, starring in such films as Sunny Side Up ( 1929 ), Delicious ( 1931 ), Merely Mary Ann ( also 1931 ), and Adorable ( 1933 ), as well as State Fair ( 1933 ) with Will Rogers and The Farmer Takes a Wife ( 1935 ), which introduced Henry Fonda to the screen as Gaynor's leading man.

Mary Rodgers ( born January 11, 1931 ) is an American composer of musicals and an author of children's books.

* Sanctuary of Santa Maria del Carmelo ( near the Courthouse ) built in 1931, which contains a 17th-century statue of the Virgin Mary.

* Mary William, 1850 – 1931

Tex Avery was born to George Walton Avery ( b. June 8, 1867-d. January 14, 1935 ) and the former Mary Augusta " Jessie " Bean ( 1886 – 1931 ) in Taylor, Texas.

On 7 March 1931, Shute married Frances Mary Heaton, a 28-year-old medical practitioner.

This was followed in the 1950s by the development of area checklists, led by Mary W. Parke with her 1931 Manx Algae and followed in 1953 by her " A preliminary check-list of British marine algae " Although Lily Newton's 1931 Handbook provided the first identification key for the algae of the British Isles, it wasn't until the 1960s that the development of such keys became routine.

Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones was born at Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, on 20 January 1965, the second child and first daughter of Christopher Bournes Rhys-Jones ( born 1931 ), a retired tyre salesman, and his wife, Mary ( née O ' Sullivan ; 1934 – 2005 ), a secretary, who already had a son, David.

* Mary Castle ( 1931 – 1998 ), actress who appeared with Jim Davis in the syndicated western television series Stories of the Century ( 1954 – 1955 )

He first married Winifred Coe on October 20, 1931, had a daughter, Martha Mary Ellen, then divorced in 1933.

Bradley, the son of schoolteacher John Smith Bradley ( 1868 – 1908 ) and Mary Elizabeth Hubbard ( 1875 – 1931 ), was born into poverty in rural Randolph County, near Clark, Missouri.

* In 1931, Mary Pickford considered destroying her films, afraid they might seem ridiculous to future generations of viewers ; however, her friend Lillian Gish managed to persuade her otherwise.

He married Mary Lee Logan, younger sister of Joshua Logan, who became one of the co-directors of the University Players in 1931.