* 1931 – Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish fencer, landowner and survivor of RMS Titanic ( b. 1862 )

* Sir Herbert Samuel 1931 – 1935

In 1931 the art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen offered funds to build a gallery for the Parthenon sculptures.

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

Isaac Isaacs | Sir Isaac Isaacs, the first Australian-born Governor-General, 1931 – 1936

# 1931 – 1952 Sir Patrick Ashley Cooper

* 1862 – Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish fencer and landowner, survivor of RMS Titanic ( d. 1931 )

* 1931 – Sir Terence Conran, English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer

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.

* April 14 – Sir Murray Bisset, South African cricketer and Governor of Southern Rhodesia ( d. 1931

By 1931, much of Mohenjo-Daro had been excavated, but excavations continued, such as that led by Sir Mortimer Wheeler, director of the Archaeological Survey of India in 1944.

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.

In 1931 Williams-Ellis bought from his uncle, Sir Osmund Williams, Bt, the Victorian crenellated mansion Castell Deudraeth with the intention of incorporating it into the Portmeirion hotel complex, but the intervention of the war and other problems prevented this.

Actor Sir Ian Holm was born at Goodmayes Hospital on 12 September, 1931, to Scottish parents, Jean Wilson Holm and James Harvey Cuthbert.

This park was acquired by Ealing Borough Council as a recreation ground in 1931 from Sir

Tea magnate Sir Thomas Lipton came to Southgate from Muswell Hill in 1892, and lived in a house called Osidge until his death in 1931.

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General Sir John Monash GCMG, KCB, VD ( 27 June 1865 – 8 October 1931 ) was a civil engineer who became the Australian military commander in the First World War.

Sir John Monash died in Melbourne on 8 October 1931 and was given a state funeral.

* Sir Ernest MacMillan ( 1931 – 1956 )

* Sir Ian Holm ( born 1931 ), film, stage and television actor

Sir Ian Holm, CBE ( born 12 September 1931 ) is an English actor known for his stage work and many film roles.

In 1931 the governor, Sir John Burdon, rejected proposals to legalise trade unions and to introduce a minimum wage and sickness insurance.

In 1931, when he was 16, Thomas left school to become a reporter for the South Wales Daily Post, only to leave under pressure 18 months later.

* 1847 – Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor ( d. 1931 )

* 1931 – Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and novelist ( d. 1989 )

Lynn M. Thomas, the American historian, writes that the period 1929 – 1931 became what is known in Kenyan historiography as the female circumcision controversy.

* 1931 – Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.

Spacey was born in South Orange, New Jersey, the son of Kathleen Ann ( née Knutson ; December 5, 1931 – March 19, 2003 ), a secretary, and Thomas Geoffrey Fowler ( June 4, 1924 – December 24, 1992 ), a technical writer and data consultant.

* 2009 – Thomas Franck, American lawyer ( b. 1931 )

Other philosophers who embraced panentheism have included Thomas Hill Green ( 1839 – 1882 ), James Ward ( 1843 – 1925 ), Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison ( 1856 – 1931 ) and Samuel Alexander ( 1859 – 1938 ).

Thomas Alva Edison ( February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931 ) was an American inventor and businessman.

Thomas Edison died of complications of diabetes on October 18, 1931, in his home, " Glenmont " in Llewellyn Park in West Orange, New Jersey, which he had purchased in 1886 as a wedding gift for Mina.

* August 18 – Thomas S. Rodgers, American admiral ( d. 1931 )

* February 11 – Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor ( d. 1931 )

* May 10 – Thomas Lipton, Scottish merchant and yachtsman ( d. 1931 )

In his 1931 book The Mysterious Universe, Eddington's rival James Jeans attributed the monkey parable to a " Huxley ", presumably meaning Thomas Henry Huxley.

* 1927 – 1931 Thomas Hunt Morgan

* Richard Aldington: An Englishman ( 1931 ) Thomas McGreevy

* Thomas B. Sheridan ( born 1931 ), professor of mechanical engineering at MIT

Former directors include Maxwell L. Anderson ( 1998 – 2003 ), David A. Ross ( 1991 – 1997 ), Thomas Armstrong III ( 1974 – 1990 ), and Juliana Rieser Force ( 1931 – 1948 ).

It is considered as a contrast to the old statement, " There is no substitute for hard work " by Thomas Alva Edison ( 1847 – 1931 ).

* Thomas Urquhart ( 1858 – 1931 ), lawyer

* Thomas Edison ( 1847 – 1931 ), inventor, the township's namesake.

* Thomas R. Pickering ( born 1931 ), United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992.

In 1521 seven Lollard dissenters ( William Tylsworth, John Scrivener, Thomas Barnard, James Morden, Robert Rave, Thomas Holmes and Joan Norman ) were burned at the stake in Amersham A memorial to them was built in 1931 and is inscribed as follows: " In the shallow of depression at a spot 100 yards left of this monument seven Protestants, six men and one woman were burned to death at the stake.