* 1931 – Charles E. Rice, American scholar and author

* 1859 – Charles Comiskey, American baseball player and manager ( d. 1931 )

* 2012 – Charles Colson, Christian apologist and founder of Prison Fellowship ( b. 1931 )

The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.

* 1931 Charles H. Tuttle

The film was an adaptation of the hit Broadway play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, which had already been made into a film in 1931.

# 1925 – 1931 Charles Vincent Sale

* 1931 – Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor ( d. 2007 )

* 1931 – Charles Colson, American Watergate figure

* 1931 – Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.

* 1931 – Charles Camilleri, Maltese composer ( d. 2009 )

Credit for invention of the steam turbine is given both to the British engineer Sir Charles Parsons ( 1854 – 1931 ), for invention of the reaction turbine and to Swedish engineer Gustaf de Laval ( 1845 – 1913 ), for invention of the impulse turbine.

* February 21 – John Charles, Welsh footballer ( b. 1931 )

* Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime ( Charles XII )( 1931 – 1936 )

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.

* April 21 – Charles Colson, American evangelist ( b. 1931 )

Charles " Buddy " Bolden ( September 6, 1877 – November 4, 1931 ) was an African-American cornetist and is regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of rag-time music which later came to be known as jazz.

Mickey Charles Mantle ( October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995 ) was an American baseball center fielder who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for the New York Yankees from 1951 to 1968.

Seventy-five novels and twenty-eight short stories about Maigret were published between 1931 and 1972, starting with Pietr-le-Leton ( Latvian Pete ) and concluding with Maigret et Monsieur Charles ( Maigret and Monsieur Charles ).

* Charles O. Jones ( born 1931 ), scholar of American politics

It was founded in Kansas City, Missouri in 1889 by Charles Fillmore ( 1854 – 1948 ) and Myrtle Fillmore ( 1845 – 1931 ) after Mrs. Fillmore had been cured of her tuberculosis, she believed, by spiritual healing.

Denis Charles Pratt was born in Sutton, Surrey, the fourth child of solicitor Spencer Charles Pratt ( 1871 – 1931 ) and former governess Frances Marion Pratt ( née Phillips ) ( 1873 – 1960 ); he changed his name to Quentin Crisp in his twenties, after leaving home and cultivating his outlandishly effeminate appearance to a standard that both shocked contemporary Londoners and provoked homophobic attacks.

* 1931 – Allan W. Eckert, American naturalist and author

Following the death of the club's principal benefactor,, in October 1927, the club's finances deteriorated to the extent that Manchester United would likely have gone bankrupt had it not been for James W. Gibson, who, in December 1931, invested £ 2, 000 and assumed control of the club.

" In 1931, Ernest W. Brown asserted, using a mathematical formula, that the observed irregularities in the orbit of Uranus could not be due to the gravitational effect of a more distant planet, and thus that Lowell's supposed prediction was " purely accidental.

* Tabu ( 1931 ) co-wrote with F. W. Murnau

* Tabu, F. W. Murnau, Robert Flaherty, 1931

Other books on Le Fanu include Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu and Others ( 1931 ) by S. M. Ellis, Sheridan Le Fanu ( 1951 ) by Nelson Browne, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ( 1971 ) by Michael H. Begnal, Sheridan Le Fanu ( third edition, 1997 ) by W. J. McCormack, Le Fanu's Gothic: The Rhetoric of Darkness ( 2004 ) by Victor Sage and Vision and Vacancy: The Fictions of J. S. Le Fanu ( 2007 ) by James Walton.

* F. W. Hirst, Gladstone as Financier and Economist ( 1931 ).

* F. W. Murnau ( 1888 – 1931 ), movie director in the silent era.

* Lowell W. Perry ( 1931 – 2001 ), NFL player, coach, and sports commentator

* The Dreyfus Case, F. W. Kraemer, Milton Rosmer, United Kingdom, 1931.

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

Tabu ( also called Tabu, a Story of the South Seas ) is a 1931 film directed by F. W.

Friedrich Wilhelm " F. W ." Murnau ( born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe ; December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931 ) was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era, and a prominent figure in the expressionist movement in German cinema during the 1920s.

In the sound era McCarey ventured into feature-film direction, working with many of the biggest stars of the era, including Gloria Swanson ( Indiscreet, 1931 ), Eddie Cantor ( The Kid From Spain, 1932 ), the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ), W. C. Fields ( Six of a Kind, 1934 ), Mae West ( Belle of the Nineties, 1934 ), and Harold Lloyd ( The Milky Way, 1936 ).

This was followed in the 1950s by the development of area checklists, led by Mary W. Parke with her 1931 Manx Algae and followed in 1953 by her " A preliminary check-list of British marine algae " Although Lily Newton's 1931 Handbook provided the first identification key for the algae of the British Isles, it wasn't until the 1960s that the development of such keys became routine.

Clarence W. Jones started transmitting on Christmas Day, 1931 from Christian missionary radio station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador.

* W. Mark Felt, the informant in the Watergate scandal known as Deep Throat, graduated from Twin Falls High School in 1931

* Franklin W. Fort ( 1880 – 1937 ), represented New Jersey's 9th congressional district from 1925 – 1931.

The W. F. Hall Printing Company of Chicago bought Art Color in 1931, and ran it until 1968, when it closed the plant there.

Morris W. Turner ( 1931 – 2008 ), a businessman and the mayor of Lubbock, Texas, from 1972 – 1974, was born in Coalgate.

* Charles W. Nibley ( 1849 – 1931 ) Scottish-American religious leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The Radio Church of God began with Herbert W. Armstrong, who in 1931 was ordained by the Oregon Conference of the Church of God ( Seventh-Day ), an Adventist group, and began serving a congregation in Eugene, Oregon.

They had five children: Prescott Bush, Jr. ( August 10, 1922 – June 23, 2010 ), George H. W. Bush ( b. 1924, named after Dorothy's father George Herbert Walker ), Nancy Bush ( b. 1926 ), Jonathan Bush ( b. 1931 ), and William " Bucky " Bush ( b. 1938 ).