* 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

* 2004 – Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist ( b. 1931 )

* 1931 – Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist ( d. 2004 )

* 1931 – Tom Wolfe, American author

* Huckleberry Finn ( 1931 film ), produced by Paramount starring Jackie Coogan as Tom Sawyer and Junior Durkin as Huck Finn

** Tom Roberts, Australian artist ( d. 1931 )

* Tom Brennan, older brother of Frank and Federal UAP Senator, 1931 – 37

* Tom Santschi ( 1880 – 1931 ), actor

* Tom Johnston ( 1931 )

* 1931 in art-Births of Frank Auerbach, Bridget Riley, Tom Wesselmann, Salvador Dalí paints The Persistence of Memory

* Tom Frame ( 1931 – 2006 )

: Tom Petrie plants macadamias at Yebri Creek ( near Petrie ) from nuts obtained from Aborigines at Buderim ( Nut Growing Experiments ’ The Queenslander Thursday 8 October 1931 p. 13 )

: Tom Petrie begins trial macadamia plantations in Maryborough district, combining with pecans to shelter the trees ( Nut Growing Experiments ’ The Queenslander Thursday 8 October 1931 p. 13 )

* Tom Adams ( politician ) or Jon Adams ( 1931 – 1985 ), Prime Minister of Barbados

* October 26 – Snowy Mountains Project worker Tom Sonter accidentally discovers the wreckage of the Australian National Airways Avro 618 Ten Southern Cloud, which had disappeared without trace in bad weather over the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales, Australia, with the loss of all eight people on board on March 21, 1931, in Australias first airline disaster.

* Tom Wesselmann ( 1931 – 2004 )

* Tom Roberts, painter, lived here between 1856 and 1931.

A large field house and auditorium was later added in 1928, with a large mural by Tom Lea added in 1931.

The 1931 race was won by Tom Humphreys, a Hopi, in 3: 36: 30.

* Tom Wilson ( producer ) ( 1931 – 1978 ), 1960s music producer

* Tom Wilson ( cartoonist ) ( 1931 – 2011 ), US cartoonist whose most famous creation was the cartoon Ziggy

* Tom Hughes ( 1931 – 1994 ), managing producer of Dallas Summer Musicals

Thomas William " Tom " Roberts ( 9 March 185614 September 1931 ) was a prominent Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School.

Playing Huckleberry Finn to Tommy Kelly's Tom Sawyer, Jackie Moran received critical praise for his natural acting style and was favorably compared to two earlier child star Jackies, the four-months-older Jackie Cooper and the eight-years-older Jackie Coogan ( who seven years earlier starred as Tom ( with Junior Durkin as Huck ) in the December 1930 release Tom Sawyer and the August 1931 release Huckleberry Finn ).