* 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

* 1931 – William Goldman, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

William Ernest " Bill " Walsh ( November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007 ) was the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal football team, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense.

* William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp 1924 – 1931

Prior to 1931, New York Times reporter William Buehler Seabrook, allegedly in the interests of research, obtained from a hospital intern at the Sorbonne a chunk of human meat from the body of a healthy human killed in an accident, then cooked and ate it.

* 1931 – William Reynolds, American actor

All the governors-general until 1965 were British, except Sir Issac Isaacs ( 1931 – 36 ) and Sir William McKell ( 1947 – 53 ).

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

Later John William Lloyd, a collaborator of Benjamin Tucker ´ s periodical Liberty, published in 1931 a sex manual that he called The Karezza Method: Or Magnetation, the Art of Connubial Love.

* 1931 – William Shatner, Canadian actor

* William Francis Rhea ( 1858 – 1931 ), U. S. Congressman from Virginia

William Hale Thompson ( May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944 ) was Mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931.

* 1931 – 1935 William Wallace Campbell

* William Horatio Bates ( 1860 – 1931 ) ( United States ) Creator of the unorthodox Bates Method, credited for being the founder of the Natural Vision Improvement movement.

* Mary William, 1850 – 1931

He appeared in many West End plays in the following few years and his earliest successes on the stage were as Hercule Poirot in Alibi ( 1928 ); he was the first actor to portray the Belgian detective in this stage adaptation of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and as William Marble in Payment Deferred, making his Lyceum Theatre ( New York ) debut in 1931.

* William Nelson Runyon ( 1871 – 1931 ), Acting Governor of New Jersey from 1919 to 1920.

By 1931 Hazel had been diagnosed with cancer and tuberculosis, while William also contracted tuberculosis resulting in blindness in one eye and then the other.

The film was re-issued in 1931 with a sound-track consisting of William Axt's score.

Bragg Laboratory staff in 1931: William Henry Bragg | W. H. Bragg ( sitting, center ): physicist A. Lebedev ( leftmost ), G. Gamow ( rightmost )

The Public Enemy ( released as Enemies of the Public in the United Kingdom ) is a 1931 American Pre-Code crime film starring James Cagney and directed by William A. Wellman.

He began digging in the summer of 1935, following excavations by William Chappell in 1931.

The 1931 excavations by William Chappell sank a shaft 12x14 feet to the southwest of what he believed was the site of the 1897 shaft, close to the original pit.

* William Smith ( Monsignor ) ( 1931 – 2009 ), Roman Catholic theologian

* William Smith ( Canadian politician ) ( 1847 – 1931 ), Canadian politician