Here, he once more became involved in Freemasonry, joining the Johore Royal Lodge No. 3946, but had retired from it by April 1931.

Willie Howard Mays, Jr. ( born May 6, 1931 ) is a retired American professional baseball player who spent the majority of his major league career with the New York and San Francisco Giants before finishing with the New York Mets.

Andreas Antonius Maria " Dries " van Agt (; born February 2, 1931 ) is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal ( CDA ).

Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones was born at Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, on 20 January 1965, the second child and first daughter of Christopher Bournes Rhys-Jones ( born 1931 ), a retired tyre salesman, and his wife, Mary ( née O ' Sullivan ; 1934 – 2005 ), a secretary, who already had a son, David.

On May 9, 1932, after a successful stint with Fred in the revue The Band Wagon ( 1931 ) on Broadway, Adele Astaire retired from the stage to marry Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish, the second son of the 9th Duke of Devonshire, and moved to Ireland, where they lived at Lismore Castle.

* Paddy Harte ( born 1931 ), Irish retired politician

He briefly returned to government in 1931 as First Lord of the Admiralty in Ramsay MacDonald's first National Government, but soon retired after having been forced to deal with the unfortunate Invergordon Mutiny.

She retired from recording and performing in 1931.

He retired to Atlanta in 1931 and died of natural causes in 1940.

James Lee Dozier ( born April 10, 1931 ) is a retired US Army general officer.

Ernest " Ernie " Banks ( born January 31, 1931 in Dallas, Texas ), nicknamed " Mr. Cub ", is a retired professional baseball player.

In the end, the position of Commandant went to Major General Ben H. Fuller and, at his own request, Butler retired from active duty on October 1, 1931.

In 1931 she married the band leader Paul Whiteman, and retired from film acting in 1934.

Herbert Eser " Herb " Gray, ( born May 25, 1931 ) is a retired Canadian politician.

Dean Edwards Smith ( born February 28, 1931 ) is a retired American head coach of men's college basketball.

John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon, KG, PC, QC ( born 5 November 1931 ) is a retired British politician.

Kenneth Venturi ( born May 15, 1931 ) is an American retired professional golfer and golf broadcaster.

John Carnell Crosbie, PC, OC, ONL, QC ( born January 30, 1931 ) is a retired provincial and federal politician and the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

John Allen Fraser, PC, OC, OBC, CD, QC ( born December 15, 1931 ) is a retired Canadian parliamentarian and former Speaker of the House of Commons.

John Patrick ( Pat ) Nowlan ( born November 10, 1931 ) is a retired Canadian parliamentarian and son of Diefenbaker-era Minister of Finance George Nowlan.

* Bob Skinner ( born 1931 ), retired American professional baseball player

* Kenneth Cameron, Baron Cameron of Lochbroom ( born 1931 ), retired Scottish judge

Bernard Morin is a French mathematician, specifically a topologist, born in 1931, who is now retired.

Vesta retired after World War I but re-recorded many of her hits in 1931 in a series of Old-Time Medleys, and appeared in the Royal Variety Show of 1932.

The first attempts to isolate TSH came a decade later, when Janssen and Loeser ( 1931 ) used trichloroacetic acid to separate the soluble TSH from insoluble impurities.

Albert ( 1949 ) has concluded that the most active preparations of TSH made during this period, from 1931 to 1945, were probably about 100 to 300 times as potent as the starting material.

In 2001, Alfred Nobel's great-grandnephew, Peter Nobel ( b. 1931 ), asked the Bank of Sweden to differentiate its award to economists given " in Alfred Nobel's memory " from the five other awards.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

Alfonso XIII ( Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena ; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.

Since the implementation of the Statute of Westminster 1931 in each of the Commonwealth realms ( on successive dates from 1931 onwards ), the Act of Settlement cannot be altered in any realm except by that realm's own parliament and, by convention, only with the consent of all the other realms, as it touches on the succession to the shared throne.

It stood as the world's tallest building for 40 years, from its completion in 1931.

Chessmetrics places him as the third best player in the world from 1927 to 1931, behind Alexander Alekhine and José Capablanca.

The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently became known as the " Capones ", was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931.

Whorf had met Sapir, the leading US linguist of the day, at professional conferences, and in 1931 Sapir came to Yale from the University of Chicago to take a position as Professor of Anthropology.

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.

In 1931 a number of Liberal MPs split from the original Liberal Party in protest at the leadership's adherence to free trade.

The atoll has been occupied at various times by guano miners, would-be settlers or military personnel, mostly from Mexico, which formerly claimed it until international arbitration awarded it to France in 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.

Attlee led Labour through the 1935 general election, which saw the party stage a partial recovery from its disastrous performance in 1931.

A series of papers published between 1931 and 1935 had its beginning on a trip from India to England in 1930,

* The Mi-go aliens in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft, first appearing in the story " The Whisperer in Darkness " ( 1931 ), can transport humans from Earth to Pluto ( and beyond ) and back again by removing the subject's brain and placing it into a " brain cylinder ", which can be attached to external devices to allow it to see, hear, and speak.

An Imperial Conference in 1926 that included the leaders of all Dominions and representatives from India ( which then included Burma, Bangladesh, and Pakistan ), led to the eventual creation of the Statute of Westminster in 1931.

*( 1968 ) Lehman College ( from ( 1931 ) Lehman was the Bronx branch of Hunter College, known as Hunter-in-the-Bronx )

Claude Piron ( 26 February 1931 – 22 January 2008 ) was a psychologist and a translator for the United Nations ( from Chinese, English, Russian and Spanish into French ) from 1956 to 1961.

They always used two-stroke engines and, from 1931, the company was a pioneer in front-wheel drive and transverse mounting.

In 1980 Peter Galton renamed Pterodactylus brancai ( Reck 1931 ), a form from a late Jurassic African formation, into Dsungaripterus brancai, but the identification is now commonly rejected.