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

Results 1 - 118 of 118

Jan 1st - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)
Jan 3rd - Joseph J C Joffre, French marshal, dies at 78
Jan 4th - Art Acord, western actor (Set Free, Spurs & Saddles), dies at 40
Jan 9th - Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer], French writer (La fille perdue), dies
Jan 9th - Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896)
Jan 11th - Oscar Fetras, composer, dies at 76
Jan 11th - James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852)
Jan 14th - William Ernst Johnson, British mathematician, dies
Jan 21st - Felix Blumenfeld, composer, dies at 67
Jan 22nd - Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
Jan 23rd - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (Diaghilew, Dying Swan), dies
Feb 2nd - Theodor Batthynyi, Hungarian contra-revolutionary, dies at 71
Feb 3rd - Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist, dies at 72
Feb 7th - Ion Vidu, composer, dies at 67
Feb 11th - Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76
Feb 11th - Charles Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine, dies
Feb 12th - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (b. 1855)
Feb 18th - Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (b. 1879)
Feb 23rd - Nellie Melba, [Helen Mitchell], Australian soprano, dies
Feb 26th - Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies at 83
Feb 28th - Ban Johnson, created (baseball's AL), dies after a long illness
Mar 5th - Fr. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist activities (b. 1839)
Mar 7th - Akseli V Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter/illustrator, dies at 65
Mar 7th - Theo van Doesburg, [Christian Kupper], painter/architect, dies at 47
Mar 8th - Clara Kathleen Rogers, composer, dies at 87
Mar 9th - Ida B Wells-Barnett, famous black, dies in Chicago at 78
Mar 11th - F.W. Murnau, German film director (b. 1888)
Mar 20th - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
Mar 22nd - Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67
Mar 23rd - Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev Indian freedom fighters
Mar 27th - Arnold Bennett, novelist, dies
Mar 31st - Knute Rockne, football player/coach, dies in a plane crash at 43
Apr 4th - Andre Michelin, CEO (Michelin Tires), dies
Apr 4th - George Whitefield Chadwick, composer, dies at 76
Apr 6th - Giuseppi Radiciotti, composer, dies at 73
Apr 8th - Eric Axel Karlfeldt, poet, dies
Apr 9th - Paul Antonin Vidal, composer, dies at 67
Apr 10th - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)
Apr 25th - A J Y (Bert) Hopkins, cricketer (20 Tests for Aust, 509 runs), dies
Apr 30th - Sammy Woods, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia, 3 for England), dies
May 3rd - Frank Hoyt Losey, composer, dies at 59
May 3rd - Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer, dies at 93
May 5th - Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (b. 1899)
May 9th - A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, US physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78
May 12th - Eugene Ysaye, composer, dies at 72
May 12th - Eugene-Auguste Ysaye, composer, dies at 72
May 13th - Josif Marinkovic, composer, dies at 79
May 14th - David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)
May 14th - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (b. 1887)
May 17th - Johan [Eliza J] de Master, art critic/writer, dies
May 17th - Timothy Cole, wood engraver, dies
May 31st - Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, French Canadian cardinal, archbishop of Quebec (b. 1866)
Jun 4th - Ibn Ali Hussein, King of Hejaz, dies
Jun 9th - Henrique Oswald, composer, dies at 79
Jun 13th - Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
Jun 22nd - Armand Fallières, French president (b. 1841)
Jun 29th - Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)
Jul 4th - Emanuele F duke of Aosta, Italian WW I-general/fascist, dies at 62
Jul 4th - Hussein ibn-Ali, sjarif Mecca/king/kalief of Hedzjaz (1917-24), dies
Jul 7th - Johannes Jacobus "Kodgee" Kotze, cricketer (S Africa 1902-07), dies
Jul 15th - Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist (b. 1868)
Jul 16th - Charles Studd, cricketer (5 Tests for England 1882-83), dies
Jul 24th - Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance, dies at 75
Jul 27th - Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)
Aug 4th - Daniel H Williams, doctor (pioneer in surgery), dies
Aug 5th - Ullrich Haupt, actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion), dies at 43
Aug 6th - Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (b. 1903)
Aug 7th - Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist (In Mist), dies at 29
Aug 20th - Waldemar von Baussnern, composer, dies at 64
Aug 27th - Willem H Nolens, priest/2nd Chamber member, dies
Aug 27th - Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856)
Aug 27th - Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)
Aug 29th - David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder
Aug 31st - Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar, dies
Sep 5th - John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
Sep 9th - Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist dies at 86
Sep 10th - Alfonso Randano, composer, dies at 78
Sep 10th - Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
Sep 11th - Salvatore Maranzano, American crime boss (b. 1868)
Sep 18th - Hazrat Babajan, a Baloch Muslim saint (b. c. 1806)
Sep 20th - Sam Morris, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1884), dies
Oct 2nd - Thomas Johnstone Lipton, sportsman/merchant, dies
Oct 3rd - Carl August Nielsen, composer, dies at 66
Oct 8th - Sir John Monash, Australian soldier general (b. 1865)
Oct 10th - Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente), dies at 84
Oct 13th - Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868)
Oct 17th - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884)
Oct 18th - Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, NJ, at 84
Oct 20th - Emanuel Moor, composer, dies at 68
Oct 21st - A Schnitzler, writer, dies at 69
Oct 24th - Murray Bisset, cricketer (S Afr)/Chief Justice of Rhodesia, dies
Oct 26th - Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (b. 1859)
Oct 29th - Luciano Gallet, composer, dies at 38
Nov 2nd - Arthur James Cook, union leader (coal miners), dies at 47
Nov 2nd - Harry Musgrove, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885), dies
Nov 3rd - Rudolf W Canne, Fries playwright (Peaske), dies at 60
Nov 4th - Charles Buddy Bolden, US jazz musician, dies
Nov 11th - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
Nov 15th - Cornelis A J van Dishoeck, publisher, dies
Nov 17th - Georgi Atanasov, composer, dies at 50
Nov 17th - John P Lotsy, botanist/geneticist (Resumptio Genetics), dies at 64
Nov 19th - Frederic Cliffe, composer, dies at 74
Nov 19th - Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897)
Nov 23rd - Evert Cornelis, Dutch conductor/pianist, dies
Nov 27th - Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
Nov 30th - John Hyatt Brewer, composer, dies at 75
Nov 30th - Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, composer, dies at 46
Dec 2nd - Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent D'indy, French count/composer, dies at 80
Dec 5th - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
Dec 10th - Max Elskamp, Belgian author/poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69
Dec 13th - Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (b. 1840)
Dec 16th - Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist/bishop of Bruges, dies at 82
Dec 18th - John T "Legs" Diamond, US gangster, murdered at 35
Dec 23rd - Wilson Bentley, American scientist (b. 1865)
Dec 26th - Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey decimal classification (b. 1851)
Dec 27th - Peter Christian Lutkin, composer, dies at 73
Dec 27th - Walter Courvoisier, composer, dies at 56
Dec 30th - Tyrone Power Sr, actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at 62