* 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

* Stelios Kazantzidis ( Στέλιος Καζαντζίδης )( 1931 – 2001 ) singer, composer, postwar

* 1931 – John Zizioulas, Greek Orthodox metropolitan of Pergamon

Unable to return to Greece, she emigrated to the United States, where she had earlier appeared in 1931, performing Clytemnestra in a modern Greek version of Electra.

Excavations conducted prior to 1931 in the Franciscan venerated area revealed no trace of a Greek or Roman settlement there, Fr.

* 1977 – Tasos Giannopoulos, Greek actor ( b. 1931 )

* 2005 – Stella Stratigou, Greek actress ( b. 1931 )

In 1931 the British Academy launched the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum publishing collections of Ancient Greek coinage.

He studied talmudic philology and Greek language and literature at the Hebrew University, where he was appointed lecturer in Talmud in 1931.

In 1931 Orestis Laskos directed Daphnis and Chloe ( Δάφνις και Χλόη ), contained the first nude scene in the history of European cinema ; it was also the first Greek movie which was played abroad.

He arrived at Oxford in 1929 to read Literae Humaniores (' Greats '), and in 1931 gained a First in classical moderations and also won the Gaisford Prize for Greek prose.

* A Manual of Greek Mathematics ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931 )

The campus also houses a Greek Theater used for concerts and performances, the Shakespeare Garden, completed in 1931, and a greenhouse, built in 1911 and a popular site for visitors.

Bertram Mackennal, ( 1863 – 1931 ) was a well-known sculptor from this era, particularly for his rendition of Circe the Greek magic goddess.

Stanisław Leśniewski coined " mereology " in 1927, from the Greek word μέρος ( méros, " part "), to refer to a formal theory of part-whole he devised in a series of highly technical papers published between 1916 and 1931, and translated in Leśniewski ( 1992 ).

Some of the Greek Cypriots desired unity ( enosis ) with Greece, and in 1931 there were nationalist riots in Nicosia.

In October 1931, Greek Cypriots in Cyprus uprised demanding union with Greece.

Walter Burkert ( born 2 February 1931 in Neuendettelsau ) is a German scholar of Greek mythology and cult.

He moved to London, where he wrote ( or co-wrote, generally with Thompson and sometimes also with Douglas Furber ) the book for " a series of highly successful romps " starring London's leading music comedy performers such as Jack Buchanan, Leslie Henson, Bobby Howes, Evelyn Laye and Elsie Randolph, in shows including Song of the Drum ( 1931 ), Seeing Stars ( 1935 ), At the Silver Swan ( 1936 ), This'll Make You Whistle ( 1935 ), Swing Along ( 1936 ), Going Places ( 1936 ), Going Greek ( 1937 ), Hide and Seek ( 1937 ), The Fleet's Lit Up ( 1938 ), Running Riot ( 1938 ), Bobby Get Your Gun ( 1938 ) and Magyar Melody ( 1939 ).

* Kiki Dimoula ( born 1931 ), Greek poet

Antonios Trakatellis () ( born 4 September 1931 in Thessaloniki ) is a Greek Member of the European Parliament, and an academic biochemist.

The work was adapted into a 64-minute mute film by Orestis Laskos in 1931, one of the first Greek cinema classics.

* Constantin Xenakis ( born 1931 ), Greek artist

In the years that followed, Greek Cypriots ' demands for enosis ( union with Greece ), which the British opposed, developed rapidly during the 1930s, leading to the destruction of the Government House in Nicosia which was burnt down in Greek Cypriot riots of 1931.

Ljiljana Crepajac ( Serbian Cyrillic: Љиљана Црепајац ) ( born 1931 ) is a Serbian classical scholar, philologist, a full-time professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy on the subject Historical grammar of Old Greek ; she is the head of the Department of Classical Sciences ( since 1994 ), and she has been a full professor since 1987.