Famous Birthdays for Year 1931

Months in Year 1931: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Birthdays 1 - 150 of 661

Jan 1st - Carel Brons, composer
Jan 1st - Siddig El Nigoumi, ceramicist
Jan 2nd - Toshiki Kaifu, premier of Japan (1989-91)
Jan 4th - Adi Lady Lala Mara, First Lady of Fiji (d. 2004)
Jan 4th - Sir William Deane, Governor-General of Australia 1996-2001
Jan 5th - Alfred Brendel, Wiesenberg Moravia, Austrian pianist
Jan 5th - Alvin Ailey, choreographer (American Dance Theater)
Jan 5th - Robert Duvall, San Diego California, actor (Great Santini, Taxi Driver)
Jan 5th - Walter Davis, US, running high jumper (Olympic-gold-1952)
Jan 5th - Joan Coxsedge, Australian politician
Jan 6th - Gerard van Muiden, Dutch MP (CDA)
Jan 6th - Graeme Hole, cricketer (Australian batsman of the fifties)
Jan 6th - Capucine, [Germaine Lefebvre], Toulon France, actress (Pink Panther, What's New Pussycat?) (d. 1990)
Jan 6th - E. L. Doctorow, American author
Jan 7th - Mack Mattingly, (Sen-R-GA, 1981-86)
Jan 8th - Bill Graham, Germany, rock promoter (Fillmore)
Jan 8th - May Wynn, [Donna Lee Hickey], NYC, actress (Caine Mutiny, Noah's Ark)
Jan 9th - Algi[rda]s [Jonas] Budrys, Prussia, sci-fi author (Man of Earth)
Jan 9th - Geoffrey Wragg, British(?) reorganizer
Jan 10th - Alexander L "Alex" Boraine, South Africa vicar/MP
Jan 10th - Ron Galella, celebrity photographer (sued by Jackie O)
Jan 10th - Peter Barnes, English writer (d. 2004)
Jan 11th - Ed Hall, Roxbury Mass, actor (Dr Bicker-Medical Center)
Jan 11th - Betty Churcher, director of the National Gallery of Australia
Jan 13th - Charles Nelson Reilly, NYC, actor (Match Game, Ghost & Mrs Muir)
Jan 13th - Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984)
Jan 14th - Juraj Pospisil, composer
Jan 14th - Frank Costigan, Australian lawyer
Jan 15th - Derek Meddings, special effects technician
Jan 15th - Murad Kazhlayev, composer
Jan 15th - Thomas Hoving, NYC, news correspondent (20/20)
Jan 16th - Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist
Jan 16th - Johannes Rau, German politician (d. 2006)
Jan 17th - Frederick Alfred Fox, composer
Jan 17th - James Earl Jones, Miss, actor (Darth Vader, Exorcist II, Soul Man)
Jan 17th - L Douglas Wilder, (Gov-D-Va)
Jan 17th - Don Zimmer, American baseball coach
Jan 19th - Robert MacNeil, Montreal, news anchor (NBC Weekend News, 1965-67)
Jan 19th - Ron Packard, (Rep-R-CA, 1983- )
Jan 20th - Sawako Ariyoshi, Japanese writer (Compound Pollution, Doctor's Wife)
Jan 20th - Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator
Jan 20th - Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and pianist (d. 1992)
Jan 22nd - Galina Zybina, USSR, discus thrower (15 world records between 1952-58)
Jan 22nd - Sam Cooke, American singer (d. 1964)
Jan 24th - Ib Norholm, composer
Jan 25th - Dean Jones, Decatur Ala, actor (Ensign O'Toole, Company, Love Bug)
Jan 25th - Harold Lloyd Jr, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter)
Jan 25th - Paavo J Haavikko, finnish writer/poet/husband of Marja-Liisa Vartio
Jan 25th - Stikkan, Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur
Jan 26th - Mary Murphy, Wash DC, actress (A Man Alone, Maggie-Investigators)
Jan 27th - John Hopkins, writer
Jan 27th - Mordecai Richler, Montreal author, (Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz)
Jan 27th - Rudi Maugeri, rocker (Crew Cuts)
Jan 27th - Vinson, Lord
Jan 28th - Timothy Kitson, former MP
Jan 29th - Leslie Bricuse, English/US composer (Stop the world I want to get off)
Jan 30th - Jack Bowman, Chief Constable (Tayside)
Jan 30th - Shirley Hazzard, Australian author (Transit of Venus)
Jan 30th - Stewart B McKinney, (Rep-R-CT, 1971- )
Jan 30th - John Crosbie, Canadian politician
Jan 30th - Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author
Jan 31st - Bill Watson, cricketer (NSW & Australian opening batsman mid-50s)
Jan 31st - Christopher Chataway, British MP/athlete (world record 5k)
Hall of Fame MLB shortstop Ernie Banks (Jan 31st) Jan 31st - Ernie Banks, Dallas Texas, "Mr Cub" Chicago Cubs, Hall-of-Famer (short stop/1st baseman)
Jan 31st - Jean Burroughs, educationalist
Jan 31st - Nicholas Gordon Lennox, diplomat
Feb 1st - Barrel, [ABM] Frinking, teacher/Dutch MP (CVP)
Feb 1st - Boris Yeltsin, Ural Mts USSR, president of Russian SSR
Feb 1st - Madeline Berthod, Switzerland, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1956)
Feb 1st - Mark Richmond, CEO (Science & Engineering Research Council)
Feb 1st - Ton [ABM] Frinking, Dutch MP (CDA)
Feb 2nd - Andreas "Andries" van Agt, Dutch premier (CDA, 1977-82)
Feb 2nd - Dries van Agt, Dutch politician
Feb 2nd - Les Dawson, British comedian (d. 1993)
Feb 2nd - Judith Viorst, American author
Feb 4th - Argentina Rioja
Feb 4th - Isabel Peron, [Maria Martinez], dancer/president Argentina
Feb 6th - Fred Trueman, [Fiery Fred], English cricket player
Russian President Boris Yeltsin (Feb 1st) Feb 6th - Freddie Trueman, cricketer ("Fiery Fred", 307 wickets for England)
Feb 6th - Rip Torn, Tx, actor (Coma, Summer Rental, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
Feb 6th - Mamie Van Doren, American actress
Feb 8th - James Dean, Marion IN, stage/film actor (Giant, Rebel Without a Cause)
Feb 9th - Robert Morris, sculptor
Feb 9th - Xavier Benguerel, composer
Feb 9th - Josef Masopust, Czech footballer
Feb 10th - Gerhard Rosenfeld, composer
Feb 10th - Makoto Shinohara, composer
Feb 10th - Thomas Bernhard, writer
Feb 10th - Doug Young, American voice actor
Feb 11th - Larry Merchant, author/boxing commentator (Showtime)
Feb 12th - Constance A Morella, (Rep-R-Maryland)
Feb 12th - Janwillem van de Wetering, Dutch author
Feb 14th - Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, NHL right wing (Canadiens, Rangers)
Actor James Dean (Feb 8th) Feb 14th - Lord Rossmore
Feb 14th - Phyllis McGuire, Middletown Oh, vocalist (McGuire Sisters)
Feb 14th - Vic Morrow, Bronx NY, actor (Combat, Roots, Twilight Zone the Movie)
Feb 14th - Brian Kelly, American actor (d. 2005)
Feb 15th - W K Reid, British ombudsman
Feb 15th - [Patricia] Claire Bloom, London, actress (Charly, Look Back in Anger)
Feb 15th - Geoff Edwards, American television game show host
Feb 16th - A Kolleritsch, writer
Feb 16th - Gamini Goonesena, cricket leg-spinner (all-rounder for Ceylon, Notts)
Feb 16th - George E Sangmeister, (Rep-D-Illinois)
Feb 16th - Ken Takakura, [Goichi Oda], Kita Japan, actor (Story of Antarctic)
Feb 18th - Dieter Schonbach, composer
Feb 18th - Johnny Hart, cartoonist
Feb 18th - Maxwell Thurman, US General
Feb 18th - Swraj Paul, Indian/British industrial/multi-millionaire (Caparo)
Feb 18th - Toni Morrison, Ohio, novelist (Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon)
Feb 18th - Bob St. Clair, American football player
Feb 23rd - Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist and sculptor (Great American Nudes) (d. 2004)
Feb 24th - Brian Close, cricketer (played for England between 1949 & 1976)
Feb 24th - Inge Bernstein, British judge
Feb 24th - Lev Vasilyevich Vorobyov, Russia, cosmonaut
Feb 24th - Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher Rinzai/Soto lines of Zen Buddhism
Feb 24th - Marta Marzotto, Italy, countess
Feb 24th - Dominic Chianese, American actor
Feb 25th - Edward Kellett-Bowman, British MEP
Feb 25th - J R Stephenson, Lt-col/secretary (MCC)
Feb 26th - Francisco Kroepfl, composer
Feb 26th - Robert D Novak, Joliet Ill, news reporter (CNN-Evans & Novak)
Feb 26th - Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2004)
Feb 27th - Andrew Sloan, Chief Constable (Strathcourt)
Feb 28th - Gavin MacLeod, Mt Kisco NY, actor (Murray-Mary Tyler Moore, Love Boat)
Feb 28th - Gustav Thoni, Italy, skiier (World Cup-1971, 72, 73, 75)
Feb 28th - Jack Thieuloy, writer
Feb 28th - Iajuddin Ahmed, Bikrampur, British Raj, President (Bangladesh, 2002-2009), (d. 2012)
Mar 2nd - Duane E Graveline, Newport Vt, astronaut
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev (Mar 2nd) Mar 2nd - Mikhail Gorbachev, Privolnoye USSR, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-91)
Mar 2nd - Tom Wolfe, Richmond Va, journalist/author (Right Stuff)
Mar 3rd - Henk Knol, Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
Mar 3rd - Piet [van] Bambergen, Dutch cabaretier (Mounties, Sherlock Jones)
Mar 4th - Gennady Rozhdestvensky, composer
Mar 4th - Han Jansen, Dutch painter
Mar 4th - Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host (d. 1997)
Mar 4th - Bob Johnson, American ice hockey coach (d. 1991)
Mar 4th - Alice Rivlin, American economist
Mar 5th - Anthony Headges, composer
Mar 5th - Barry Tuckwell, Melbourne Aust, hornist (London Symph Orch 1955-68)
Mar 5th - Fred Othon Aristidès, French comics artist
Mar 6th - Carmen Delavallade, US dancer/singer/actress (Aida)
Mar 6th - David Haddon Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker's Almanack)
Mar 6th - John Smith, LA California, actor (Cimarron City, Laramie, 7 Angry Men)
Mar 6th - Hal Needham, American stuntman
Mar 7th - C W Stubblefield, music promoter
Mar 7th - Cornelis T "Cor" van de Molen, director Social Businesses of Press
Mar 7th - Donald Barthelme, US, writer (Snow White)
Mar 8th - John McPhee, author (Back to ----)
Mar 8th - Neil Adcock, cricketer (South African pace bowler, 104 wkts 1953-62), (d. 2013)
Mar 8th - Neil Postman, American cultural critic (d. 2003)