* 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

Rockne, aged 43, died in the plane crash of TWA Flight 599 in Kansas on March 31, 1931, while on his way to help in the production of the film The Spirit of Notre Dame.

He made several films in the new medium, most notably Son of the Gods ( 1930 ), The Dawn Patrol ( 1930 ), The Last Flight ( 1931 ), and The Cabin in the Cotton ( 1932 ), Central Airport ( 1933 ), and a supporting role as Rita Hayworth's character's husband in Only Angels Have Wings ( 1939 ).

* The Last Flight ( 1931 )

In 1931, Transcontinental & Western Air Flight 599 crashed ten miles south of Cottonwood Falls near the community of Bazaar, killing all eight on board, including Notre Dame University football coach Knute Rockne.

In 1931, Caresse also published Torchbearer, a collection of his poetry with an afterward by Ezra Pound, and Aphrodite in Flight, a seventy-five paragraph-long prose-poem and how-to manual for lovers that compared making love to a woman to flying planes.

In January 1931 Flight magazine revealed that Whitehall Securities Corporation Limited acquired a substantial holding in Saunders Roe.

Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York ( 1931 ) – Essays include: " Adventurous Hunting " by Kermit Roosevelt, " Scouting Against the Apache " by Frederick R. Burnham, " How I Learned to Fly " by Orville Wright, " An Arctic Mirage " by Donald B. MacMillan, " In the Arctic " by Lincoln Ellsworth, " A Tobacco Trade " by George Bird Grinnell, " The Black Ghosts of the Tana River " by James L. Clark, " My Flight Over the Atlantic " by Richard Evelyn Byrd, " In the Jungles of Cochin-China " by Theodore Roosevelt, " Shipwreck " by Robert A. Bartlett, " Written in the Air " by Charles Lindbergh, " Tiger!

* On March 31, 1931, Notre Dame Coach Knute Rockne was killed on Transcontinental & Western Air Flight 599 from Kansas City to Los Angeles when the Fokker Trimotor broke up in a storm over Bazaar, Kansas.

Holt became Columbia Pictures ' most reliable leading man, and scored personal successes in three Frank Capra action dramas, Submarine ( 1928 ), Flight ( 1929 ), and Dirigible ( 1931 ), Holt's no-nonsense characterizations were eclipsed by those of younger, tough-talking actors like James Cagney and Chester Morris, but Holt continued to work in low-budget action features, almost always for Columbia, through 1940.

* Flight into Darkness ( German original: Flucht in die Finsternis ), 1931 novella by Arthur Schnitzler

Brown went on to make several more top-flight movies under the name John Mack Brown, including The Secret Six ( 1931 ) with Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, and Clark Gable, as well as the legendary Lost Generation celebration of alcohol, The Last Flight ( 1931 ), and was being groomed by MGM as a leading man until being abruptly replaced on Laughing Sinners in 1931, with all his scenes reshot, substituting rising star Clark Gable in his place.

* The Last Flight, 1931

The Last Flight ( 1931 ), a " Lost Generation " celebration of alcohol in Paris, and Karl Freund's The Mummy ( 1932 ) with Boris Karloff were two standouts.

* The Last Flight ( 1931 )

* The Last Flight ( 1931 ) as Nikki

He adapted quickly to Hollywood filmmaking with his first film, The Last Flight ( 1931 ).

* 1931: The Last Flight

The Ministry forbade the use of the aircraft that competed in the 1929 race ; forbade RAF pilots of the High Speed Flight who were trained to fly these seaplanes, to take part ; and said that it would not police the race course in 1931 in the busy shipping lanes in the Solent.

Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York ( 1931 ) -- Essays include: " A Tobacco Trade " by George Bird Grinnell, " Scouting Against the Apache " by Frederick R. Burnham, " How I Learned to Fly " by Orville Wright, " Adventurous Hunting " by Kermit Roosevelt, " An Arctic Mirage " by Donald B. MacMillan, " The First Crossing of the Polar Sea " by Lincoln Ellsworth, " In the Arctic " by Lincoln Ellsworth, " The Black Ghosts of the Tana River " by James L. Clark, " My Flight Over the Atlantic " by Richard E. Byrd, " In the Jungles of Cochin-China " by Theodore Roosevelt, " Shipwreck " by Robert A. Bartlett, " Written in the Air " by Charles A. Lindbergh, " Tiger!