* 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

Buffalo City Hall | City Hall in Buffalo, New York | Buffalo, New York ; John Wade with George Dietel, built 1929 – 1931

* David Lloyd George 1926 – 1931

London: George G. Harrap, 1931.

The first electrically amplified guitar was designed in 1931 by George Beauchamp, General Manager at National Guitar Corporation with Paul Barth who was Vice President.

* 1931 – George E. Sangmeister, American politician ( d. 2007 )

The first successful magnetic pickup for a guitar was invented by George Beauchamp, and incorporated into the 1931 Ro-Pat-In ( later Rickenbacker ) " Frying Pan " lap steel ; other manufacturers, notably Gibson, soon began to install pickups in archtop models.

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.

Fluxus was named and loosely organized in 1962 by George Maciunas ( 1931 – 78 ), a Lithuanian-born American artist.

* 1854 – George Whitefield Chadwick, American composer ( d. 1931 )

It is not necessary for them to be a party leader ; David Lloyd George was leader of no party as prime minister during World War I, and neither was Ramsay MacDonald from 1931 to 1935.

The company was founded in 1931 as the Ro-Pat-In Corporation ( ElectRo-Patent-Instruments ) by Adolph Rickenbacher and George Beauchamp in order to sell electric Hawaiian guitars.

* 1931 – George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* November 13 – George Whitefield Chadwick, American composer ( d. 1931 )

** George Green Foster, Canadian lawyer and politician ( d. 1931 )

He married Matilda Elizabeth Griswold and had three daughters and three sons, including: Frederick Frelinghuysen, George Griswold Frelinghuysen ( 1851-1936 ), Theodore Frelinghuysen (?- 1931 ), Matilda Griswold Frelinghuysen who married Henry Winthrop Gray, a daughter who married Charles L. McCauley, and Lucy Frelinghuysen.

One of the few stirs arose when the Canadian Prime Minister, R. B. Bennett, considered the Duke for Governor General of Canada in 1931 — a proposal that King George V rejected on the advice of his ministers.

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.

* Danish — Schnéevoigt, George: Pierrot Is Crying ( 1931 ).

* George Washington Bridge ( opened October 24, 1931 )

During the 1920s, Fred and Adele appeared on Broadway and on the London stage in shows such as George and Ira Gershwin's Lady Be Good ( 1924 ) and Funny Face ( 1927 ), and later in The Band Wagon ( 1931 ), winning popular acclaim with the theater crowd on both sides of the Atlantic.

* George, Count Brasov ( 1910 – 1931 ), son of Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov and Princess Brasova ( Natalia Sheremetyev-Romanov )

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.

In 1931 Paramount again remade The Cheat, with Broadway mogul George Abbott as director and starring Tallulah Bankhead.