* 2004 – Harold Bernard St. John, Barbadian politician, ( b. 1931 )

* 1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.

In an article written shortly before his death, Bradbury said the " John Carter of Mars " books and Harold Foster's 1931 series of Tarzan Sunday comics had such an impact on his life that " The Martian Chronicles would never have happened " otherwise.

Alec Waugh, who met him through Harold Monro, described him as embittered by the war, and offered Douglas Goldring as comparison ; but took it that he worked off his spleen in novels like The Colonel's Daughter ( 1931 ), rather than letting it poison his life.

The concept that insulin resistance may be the underlying cause of diabetes mellitus type 2 was first advanced by Prof. Wilhelm Falta and published in Vienna in 1931, and confirmed as contributary by Sir Harold Percival Himsworth of the University College Hospital Medical Centre in London in 1936.

* Harold Macmillan, Esq ( 30 May 1929 – 4 November 1931 )

* Harold Macmillan, Esq, MP ( 4 November 1931 – 1942 )

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 ).

In 1931, the sparsely populated settlement was incorporated by Harold Stirling Vanderbilt as the “ Town of Manalapan ”, which is thought to be named after Manalapan Township, New Jersey.

Together, they had two children: Gloria Lloyd ( 1924 – 2012 ), and Harold Clayton Lloyd, Jr., ( 1931 – 1971 ).

Hydrogen's Deuterium isotope had only recently been discovered at Columbia in 1931 by Harold Urey, who received the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work.

The first model is defined by Hotelling's rule, which is a 1931 economic model of non-renewable resource management by Harold Hotelling.

During Pupin's tenure, Harold C. Urey, in his work with the hydrogen isotope deuterium demonstrated the existence of heavy water, the first major scientific breakthrough in the newly founded laboratories ( 1931 ).

Harold McNair ( 5 November 1931 in Kingston, Jamaica – 7 March 1971 in Maida Vale, North London ) was a renowned saxophonist and flautist.

The voice heard on the radio reading the news throughout the film in German was that of Associate Producer Harold Nebenzal, whose father Seymour Nebenzahl made such notable Weimar films such as M ( 1931 ), Testament of Dr. Mabuse ( 1933 ), and Threepenny Opera ( 1931 ).

( 1931, with Harold Wright )

The origin of strobe lighting dates to 1931, when Harold Eugene " Doc " Edgerton employed a flashing lamp to make an improved stroboscope for the study of moving objects, eventually resulting in dramatic photographs of objects such as bullets in flight.

* Harold Macmillan was MP ( 1924 – 29, 1931 – 45 ), later Prime Minister ( 1957 – 63 ).

For the next few years, a black player would sporadically pop up on a team: Harold Bradley played one season with the Chicago Cardinals in 1928, and David Myers played for two New York City-based teams in 1930 and 1931.

He studied at Peabody Institute since 1918, with Gustav Strube in composition and Harold Randolph in piano, and then with the avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse before marrying Jane Belo, a disciple of Margaret Mead, in 1931.

* 1931: Tasmanian Harold Gatty and American Wiley Post make record round-the-world flight ( eight days, 15 hours )

The Group Theatre was a New York City theater collective formed by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg in 1931.

On June 23, 1931, Post and his navigator, Harold Gatty, left Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York in the Winnie Mae with a flight plan that would take them around the world, stopping at Harbour Grace, Flintshire, Hanover twice, Berlin, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, Nome where his propeller had to be repaired, Fairbanks where the propeller was replaced, Edmonton, and Cleveland before returning to Roosevelt Field.

Daniel Domingo Salamanca Urey ( July 8, 1863 – July 17, 1935 ) was President of Bolivia from March 5, 1931 until he was overthrown in a coup d ' état on November 27, 1934, during the country's disastrous Chaco War with Paraguay.

* 1931 Linus Pauling discovers resonance bonding and uses it to explain the high stability of symmetric planar molecules

* 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.

In 1931, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculated, using special relativity, that a non-rotating body of electron-degenerate matter above a certain limiting mass ( now called the Chandrasekhar limit at 1. 4 solar masses ) has no stable solutions.

Procedures for testing hypotheses about probabilities ( using finite samples ) are due to Ramsey ( 1931 ) and de Finetti ( 1931, 1937, 1964, 1970 ).

Performances by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra were recorded in 1931 and 1932 using telephone lines between the Academy of Music in Philadelphia and the labs in New Jersey.

" 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.

It was designed by Swiss architects Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced concrete.

* 1931 — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculates, using special relativity, that a non-rotating body of electron-degenerate matter above a certain limiting mass ( at 1. 4 solar masses ) has no stable solutions.

However, the novel was not published until 1920, at least eight years after Karloff had been using the name on stage and in silent films ( Warner Oland played " Boris Karlov " in a movie version in 1931 ).

The rival Shochiku studio began the successful production of sound-on-film talkies in 1931 using a variable-density process called Tsuchibashi.

In 1931, Finnish aero engineer Toivo J. Kaario began designing a developed version of a vessel using an air cushion and built a prototype ( Surface Soarer ), in 1937.

As a result, between 1920 and 1931 the rivers Alport and Ashop were also diverted from the Ashop valley into the reservoir using tunnels and a Venturi Flume.

After the last services ran on the night of 2 February 1930 the subway was closed until the formal re-opening on 14 January 1931 using E / 3 type tram no.

In 1931 a microwave relay link across the English Channel using 10 ft. ( 3 meter ) diameter dishes was demonstrated.

* Guy Debord ( 1931 – 1994 ) ( generally using the name ‘ Guy-Ernest ’ during this period ).

In 1931, Albany College joined, left in 1938, and rejoined in 1949 using its present name of Lewis & Clark College.

In the 1926 / 27 season, Leicester started using letters to identify their forwards, expanding the practice by 1931 / 32 to the whole team.

In 1929 there was a concerted campaign by the office of Lord Lyon King of Arms to ensure that all burghs using unmatriculated arms regularised their position, and more than fifty burghs registered arms between 1929 and 1931.

The heir apparent to the earldom is usually styled Lord Dalmeny, but the current Earl, while heir apparent to his father, the sixth Earl, was styled Lord Primrose instead, to avoid using the same courtesy title as his elder half-brother, Archbald Ronald Primrose, who had been styled Lord Dalmeny before his death in 1931.

As deputy head of the GPU, Yagoda organized the building of the White Sea – Baltic Canal using forced labor from the Gulag system at breakneck speed between 1931 and 1933 at the cost of huge casualties.

A written language was created for Evenkis in the Soviet Union in 1931, first using a Latin alphabet, and from 1937 a Cyrillic one.

The concept of launching remains into space using conventional rockets was proposed by the science fiction author Neil R. Jones in the novella " The Jameson Satellite " published in the pulp magazine " Amazing Stories " in 1931.

In 1931, Lederer was in London to perform on stage in Volpone and the next year in Autumn Crocus by Dodie Smith, which he then performed on Broadway – using the name " Francis " – where it played for 210 performances in 1932 and 1933.

The excitation purity ( purity for short ) of a stimulus is its difference from the illuminant's white point relative to the furthest point on the chromaticity diagram with the same hue ( dominant wavelength for monochromatic sources ); using the CIE 1931 color space:

In 1931, the International Code of Signals, originally created for ship communication by signalling using flags, was expanded by adding a collection of five-letter codes to be used by radiotelegraph operators.