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1931 (MCMXXXI) was
a common year starting
on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1931st year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 931st year of the 2nd millennium, the 31st year of
the 20th century,
and the 2nd year of the 1930s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1931 ·
January – The National Committee for Modification of the Volstead Act is
formed, to work for the repeal
of Prohibition in the United States. ·
January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to
study nuclear physics. ·
January 3 – Albert Einstein begins doing research
at the California
Institute of Technology, along with astronomer Edwin Hubble. ·
January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to
Africa. ·
January 6 – Thomas Edison submits his last patent application. ·
January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first
Australian-born Governor-General
of Australia. ·
January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from
imprisonment in India.[1] ·
January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in
France. ·
January 30 – The movie City Lights, starring Charlie Chaplin, is released. February[edit] Main article: February 1931 ·
February 3 – Hawke's Bay
earthquake: Much of the New Zealand cities of Napier and Hastings
are destroyed in an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale,
killing 256 people. ·
February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling
for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized
countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are
"beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years
behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years.
Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in
the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization
of agriculture. ·
February 10 – Official inauguration
ceremonies for New Delhi as the capital of India begin.[2] ·
February 11 – National Socialist (NSDAP) and German
National People's Party (DNVP) members walk out of the
German Reichstag,
in protest against changes in the parliament's protocol, intended to limit
heckling. ·
February 12 – Vatican Radio first broadcasts. ·
February 14 – The original film version
of Dracula,
with Bela Lugosi, is
released in the United States. ·
February 16 – Pehr Evind
Svinhufvud is elected president of Finland. ·
February 20 – California gets the go-ahead by
the United States
Congress, to build the San
Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. ·
February 21 – Peruvian revolutionaries
hijack a Ford Trimotor aeroplane,
and demand that the pilot drop propagandaleaflets over Lima.
February 10: New Delhi becomes India's
capital
February 21: Ford Trimotorhijacked March[edit] Main article: March 1931 ·
March 1 ·
The USS Arizona is
placed back in full commission, after a refit. ·
Sir Oswald Mosley founds the New Party as a breakaway from the Labour Party in
the United Kingdom. ·
March 3 – The
Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the United
States' National anthem. ·
March 5 – The British viceroy of India and Mohandas Gandhi sign the Gandhi–Irwin Pact. ·
March 7 – The new House of
Representatives opens in Helsinki, Finland. ·
March 11 – The Ready
for Labour and Defence of the USSR programme, abbreviated
as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union. ·
March 17 – Nevada legalizes gambling. ·
March 19 – The Westminster
St George's by-election in the U.K. results in the victory of
the Conservative candidate Duff Cooper. The by-election has been
treated virtually as a referendum on the leadership of the Conservative
leader Stanley Baldwin,
and Duff Cooper's victory ends the campaign by the press barons Lord Beaverbrook and Viscount
Rothermere to oust Baldwin. ·
March 23 – Indian revolutionary
leaders Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for
conspiracy to murder in the British Raj. ·
March 25 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama, and charged with rape. ·
March 27 – English writer Arnold Bennett dies of typhoid in London, shortly after
returning from a visit to Paris, where he drank local water to prove it was
safe. ·
March 31 – An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000 people. April[edit] Main article: April 1931 ·
April 1 – The Second Encirclement Campaign against Jiangxi Soviet in
China is launched by the Kuomintanggovernment, to destroy the Communist
forces in Jiangxi Province. ·
April 6 – The Portuguese government
declares martial law in Madeira and in
the Azores, because of the Madeira uprising in Funchal. ·
April 9 – Argentine anarchist Severino
Digiovanni is executed. ·
April 12 – Municipal elections in
Spain, which are treated as a virtual referendum on the monarchy, result in
the triumph for the republican parties. ·
April 14 – The Second Spanish
Republic is proclaimed in Madrid. Meanwhile, as a result of the
victory of the Republican
Left of Catalonia, Francesc Macià proclaims
in Barcelona the Catalan Republic,
as a state of the Iberian Federation. ·
April 15 – The Castellammarese War ends
with the murder of Joe "The Boss"
Masseria, briefly leaving Salvatore Maranzano as capo dei capi ("boss of all
bosses") of the American Mafia. Maranzano is himself
murdered less than 6 months later, leading to the creation of the Commission. ·
April 17 – After the negotiations
between the republican ministers of Spain and Catalonia, the Catalan Republic
becomes the Generalitat of
Catalonia, a Catalan autonomous government inside the Spanish
Republic. ·
April 22 – Austria, the UK, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United States recognize the Spanish Republic. ·
April 25 – The automobile
manufacturer Porsche is founded
by Ferdinand Porsche in Stuttgart. May[edit] Main article: May 1931
May 1: Empire State
Building is completed. ·
May 1 – Construction of the Empire State
Building is completed in New York City. ·
May 4 – Kemal Atatürk is re-elected president
of Turkey. ·
May 5 – İsmet
İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (7th government). ·
May 11 – The Creditanstalt, Austria's largest bank,
goes bankrupt, beginning the banking collapse in Central Europe that causes a
worldwide financial meltdown. ·
May 13 – Paul Doumer is elected president of
France. ·
May 14 – Ådalen shootings:
Five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, when soldiers open fire on
an unarmed trade union demonstration. ·
May 15 ·
The
Chinese Communists inflict a sharp defeat on the Kuomintang forces. ·
Pope Pius XI issues the encyclical Quadragesimo anno,
on the "reconstruction of the social order". ·
May 31 – The Second Encirclement
Campaign against Jiangxi Soviet ends in the defeat of the Kuomintang. June[edit] Main article: June 1931 ·
June 3 – Salvador Dalí's The Persistence
of Memory is put on display for the first time in Paris
at the Galerie Pierre Colle. ·
June 5 – German Chancellor Dr. Heinrich Brüning visits
London, where he warns the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald that the collapse of
the Austrian banking system, caused by the bankruptcy of the Creditanstalt,
has left the entire German banking system on the verge of collapse. ·
June 12 – English cricketer Charlie Parker equals J. T. Hearne's record for the earliest date
to reach 100 wickets. ·
June 14 – Saint-Philibert
disaster: The overloaded pleasure craft Saint-Philibert,
carrying trippers home to Nantes from the Île de Noirmoutier, sinks at the
mouth of the River Loire in France; over
450 drown. ·
June 19 ·
In
an attempt to stop the banking crisis in Central Europe from causing a
worldwide financial meltdown, U.S. President Herbert Hoover issues the Hoover Moratorium. ·
The Geneva
Convention (1929) relative to the treatment of prisoners of war enters into force. ·
June 23–July 1 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty accomplish the first
round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane, flying eastabout from Roosevelt Field,
New York, in 8 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes.[3] July[edit] Main article: July 1931 ·
July – John Haven Emerson of Cambridge,
Massachusetts perfects his negative
pressure ventilator ("iron lung"), just in time for
the growing polio epidemic. ·
July 1 – The rebuilt Milano
Centrale railway station officially opens in Italy. ·
July 9 – Irish racing driver Kaye Don breaks the world water speed record at
Lake Garda, Italy.[4] ·
July 13 – Royal soldiers shoot and kill
22 people demonstrating against the Maharaja Hari Singh, of the Indian princely state
of Kashmir
and Jammu.[5] ·
July 16 – Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first Constitution
of Ethiopia. ·
July 26 – The millennialist Bible Student
movement adopts the name Jehovah's Witnesses,
at a meeting in Columbus, Ohio. ·
July 31 – The May Report in the United Kingdom
recommends extensive cuts to government expenditure. This produces a
political crisis, as many members of the Labour Party (at
this time in government) object to the proposals. August[edit] Main article: August 1931 ·
The 1931 China floods reach
their peak, in possibly the deadliest natural disaster yet recorded. ·
Warner Brothers releases the
first Merrie Melodies cartoon, Lady, Play Your
Mandolin. ·
August 2 – Murder
of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck: Two Berlin police officers are killed by
Communists. ·
August 9 – A referendum in Prussia for
dissolving the Landtag ends with the "yes" side
winning 37% of the vote, which is insufficient for calling the early
elections. The elections are intended to remove the Social
Democratic Party (SPD) government of Otto Braun, which is one of the strongest
forces for democracy in Germany. Supporting the "yes" side were
the NSDAP, the DNVP and
the Communist
Party (KPD), while supporting the "no" side were
the SPD and Zentrum. ·
August 11 – A run on the British pound
leads to a political and economic crisis in Britain. (See European
banking crisis of 1931) ·
August 24 – The Labour Government
of Ramsay MacDonald resigns
in Britain, replaced by a National
Government of people drawn from all parties, also under
MacDonald. September[edit] Main article: September 1931 September 18: The Mukden Incident: Incident Museum in Shenyang ·
September 5 – John
Thomson, Scottish football player,
dies as the result of an accident, during a Celtic–Rangers match. ·
September 7 – The Second
Round Table Conference on the constitutional future of India
opens in London; Mahatma Gandhi represents
the Indian National
Congress. ·
September 10 – The worst hurricane in British Honduras history kills an
estimated 1,500. ·
September 15 – Invergordon Mutiny: Strikes are called in the British Royal Navy, due to decreased pay. ·
September 16 – Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar is hanged in Italian Libya. ·
The
Japanese military stage the Mukden Incident, as a pretext for the Japanese
invasion of Manchuria. ·
Geli Raubal commits suicide, in her
uncle Adolf Hitler's
apartment. ·
September 20 – With a gun literally
pointed to his head, the Chinese commander of Kirin province announces the annexation
of that territory to Japan. ·
September 22 – The United Kingdom
abandons the gold standard. October[edit] Main article: October 1931 ·
October – The Caltech Department of Physics faculty
and graduate students meet with Albert Einstein as a guest. ·
October 4 – Dick Tracy, the comic strip detective
character created by cartoonist Chester Gould, makes his debut appearance in
the Detroit Mirror newspaper. ·
October 5 – American aviators Clyde Edward
Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr., complete the first non-stop flight across the Pacific
Ocean, from Misawa, Japan,
to East
Wenatchee, Washington, in 41½ hours.[6] ·
October 11 – A rally in Bad Harzburg,
Germany leads to the Harzburg Front being founded, uniting
the NSDAP, the DNVP, the Stahlhelm and various other
right-wing factions. ·
American
gangster Al Capone is sentenced
to 11 years in prison for tax evasion in Chicago. ·
Leeds
Bradford International Airport is opened as Leeds and
Bradford Municipal Aerodrome, in England. ·
October 24 – The George
Washington Bridge across the Hudson River in the United States is
dedicated; it opens to traffic the following day. At 3,500 feet
(1,100 m), it nearly doubles the previous record for the longest
main span in the world. ·
October 27 – The United
Kingdom general election results in the victory of the National
Government, and the defeat of Labour Party,
in the country's greatest ever electoral landslide. November[edit] Main article: November 1931 ·
The Chinese Soviet
Republic is proclaimed by Mao Zedong. ·
Red
China News Agency (a predecessor of the Xinhua News Agency)
is officially founded, and news wire service start in Ruijin, Jiangxi Province, China.[citation needed] ·
French
police launch a large-scale raid against Corsican bandits. ·
The Panama Canal is closed for a couple of
weeks, due to damage caused by earthquakes. ·
November 21 – The infamous
Red-and-White Party, given by Arthur Jeffress in Maud Allan's Regent's Park townhouse in London,
marks the end of the "Bright young things"
subculture in Britain.[7] ·
Ali Fethi Okyar forms a new government
in Turkey (third government). ·
James Whale's film of Frankenstein is
released in New York City. ·
November 26 – Heavy hydrogen, later
named deuterium, is discovered by American
chemist Harold Urey. December[edit] Main article: December 1931 ·
December 5 – The original Cathedral
of Christ the Saviour in Moscow (1883)
is dynamited, by order of Joseph Stalin. ·
December 8 – Carl Friedrich
Goerdeler is appointed Reich Price Commissioner, in Germany
to enforce the deflationary policies of the Brüning government. ·
December 9 – The Spanish Constituent Cortes approves
the Spanish
Constitution of 1931, effectively establishing the Second Spanish
Republic. ·
Jane Addams becomes the first American
woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. ·
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora is
elected president of the Spanish Republic. ·
December 11 – The Parliament
of the United Kingdom enacts the Statute of
Westminster, which establishes a status of legislative equality
between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of
Australia, the Dominion of Canada,
the Irish Free State, Newfoundland,
the Dominion of New
Zealand and the Union of South
Africa. ·
December 13 – Wakatsuki
Reijirō resigns as Prime Minister of
Japan. ·
December 19 – The UAP/Country Coalition,
led by Joseph Lyons,
defeats the Australian Labor Government, led by Prime
Minister James Scullin.
Coming in the aftermath of two splits in
the Labor Party, the election comes about due to the defeat of the Scullin
Government on the floor of the House
of Representatives – to date, it is the last federal election
where a one-term government was defeated. Lyons will be sworn in January 6th the following year, but not
before disbanding the Coalition, after the UAP wins enough seats to form a
government in its own right. ·
December 26 – Phi Iota Alpha, the oldest surviving Latino fraternity, is founded in the United
States. Date unknown[edit] ·
Ust-Abakanskoye
becomes Abakan. Births[edit] January[edit]
·
Mohammad Ali Samatar,
5th Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 2016) ·
Shamsul Islam,
Bangladeshi politician (d. 2018) ·
January 2 – Toshiki Kaifu, 2-time Prime Minister of
Japan ·
José Triana,
Cuban poet (d. 2018) ·
Cleopa Msuya, 3rd Prime Minister of Tanzania ·
Alvin Ailey, American choreographer
(d. 1989) ·
Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist ·
Robert Duvall, American actor, director ·
Fern Battaglia, American professional
baseball player (d. 2001) ·
E. L. Doctorow, American author (d. 2015) ·
January 7 – Elizabeth Kishkon,
Canadian politician (d. 2018) ·
January 8 – Bill Graham,
German concert promoter (d. 1991) ·
January 9 – Ángel Berni, Paraguayan footballer (d. 2017) ·
Nik Abdul Aziz Nik
Mat, Malaysian politician, Muslim cleric (d. 2015) ·
Peter Barnes,
English playwright, screenwriter (d. 2004) ·
Roland Alphonso, Jamaican musician (d. 1998) ·
Bert Ormond, Scottish-born New Zealand
footballer (d. 2017) ·
January 13 – Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984) ·
January 14 – Caterina Valente, French singer and actress ·
Shuhrat Abbosov, Uzbek actor, film director,
screenwriter, and film producer (d. 2018) ·
Ellen Holly, American actress ·
Johannes Rau, President of Germany (d. 2006) ·
January 17 – James Earl Jones, African-American actor ·
January 18 – Chun Doo-hwan, President of
South Korea ·
Ítalo Rossi, Brazilian actor (d. 2011) ·
Pat Hunt, New Zealand National Party
politician ·
Robert MacNeil, Canadian journalist ·
Sawako Ariyoshi, Japanese writer, novelist
(d. 1984) ·
David Lee,
American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Physics ·
January 22 – Sam Cooke, African-American singer (d. 1964) ·
January 24 – Lars Hörmander,
Swedish mathematician (d. 2012) ·
January 25 – Dean Jones,
American actor (d. 2015) ·
Alfred Lynch, English actor (d. 2003) ·
Kaare Ørnung, Norwegian pianist, music
teacher (d. 2013) ·
January 27 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (d. 2001) ·
January 29 – Ferenc Mádl, President of Hungary (d. 2011) ·
January 30 – Allan W. Eckert, American historian,
naturalist, and author (d. 2011) ·
Jack Taylor,
American swimmer (d. 1955) ·
Ernie Banks, American baseball player
(d. 2015) ·
Lorraine Ellison, African-American soul
singer (d. 1983) February[edit]
·
February 1 – Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of Russia (d. 2007) ·
Dries van Agt, Dutch politician, 46th Prime
Minister of the Netherlands ·
Les Dawson, British comedian (d. 1993) ·
Hillel Zaks, Polish-born Israeli rabbi
(d. 2015) ·
Walter Burkert, German writer (d. 2015) ·
February 4 – Isabel Martínez
de Perón, 41st President of
Argentina ·
Ricardo Vidal, Filipino Roman Catholic
prelate, cardinal (d. 2017) ·
Rip Torn, American actor, director ·
Mamie Van Doren, American actress, author ·
James Dean, American actor (d. 1955) ·
Shadia, Egyptian actress, singer (d. 2017) ·
Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989) ·
Jack Van Impe, American televangelist ·
Josef Masopust, Czech football player and
coach (d. 2015) ·
February 10 – Cauby Peixoto, Brazilian singer (d. 2016) ·
February 11 – Larry Merchant, American author, boxing
commentator ·
February 12 – Agustín
García-Gasco Vicente, Spanish cardinal (d. 2011) ·
February 13 – Geoff Edwards, American actor, game show
host (d. 2014) ·
February 14 – Jonathan
Adams, British actor (d. 2005) ·
February 15 – Claire Bloom, English actress ·
George E.
Sangmeister, American politician (d. 2007) ·
Ken Takakura, Japanese actor (d. 2014) ·
Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (d. 2007) ·
Toni Morrison, African-American writer,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Literature ·
Bob St. Clair, American football player
(d. 2015) ·
Dominic Chianese, American actor, singer ·
Brian Close, English cricketer (d. 2015) ·
February 25 – Eric Edgar Cooke, Australian serial killer
(d. 1964) ·
Gavin MacLeod, American actor, Mayor
of Pacific
Palisades ·
Dean Smith, American basketball coach
(d. 2015) March[edit]
·
March 1 – Lamberto Dini, Italian politician, economist
and 51st Prime Minister of
Italy ·
March 2 ·
Mikhail Gorbachev, President
of the Soviet Union, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ·
Tom Wolfe, American novelist, journalist
(d. 2018) ·
March 3 ·
Paul Clayton
(folksinger), American folksinger, folklorist (d. 1967) ·
John Smith,
American actor (d. 1995) ·
March 4 ·
Wally Bruner, American journalist,
television host (d. 1997) ·
William Cardinal
Keeler, American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2017) ·
Ludvig Hope Faye, Norwegian politician
(d. 2017) ·
Alice Rivlin, American economist ·
March 8 – Neil Postman, American media theorist,
cultural critic (d. 2003) ·
March 9 ·
Jackie Healy-Rae, Irish Politician (d. 2014) ·
León Febres Cordero,
President of Ecuador (d. 2008) ·
March 10 – Kovambo Nujoma, First Lady of Namibia ·
March 11 ·
Janosch, German writer ·
Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publisher ·
March 12 ·
Danny Lewicki, Canadian professional ice
hockey player (d. 2018) ·
Herb Kelleher, American businessman ·
March 14 – Lisbet Palme, Swedish child psychologist
(d. 2018) ·
March 15 ·
D. J. Fontana, American drummer (d. 2018) ·
Ted Marchibroda, American football player
(d. 2016) ·
March 17 – Eunice Gayson, English actress (d. 2018) ·
March 18 ·
Shirley Stovroff, American female
professional baseball player (d. 1994) ·
Vlastimil Bubník,
Czech ice hockey, football player (d. 2015) ·
March 20 ·
Hal Linden, American actor, singer (Barney Miller) ·
Karen Steele, American actress (d. 1988) ·
March 22 ·
Burton Richter, American physicist,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Physics ·
William Shatner, Canadian actor, science
fiction novelist (Star Trek) ·
March 23 – Ernest A. Finney Jr.,
American judge (d. 2017) ·
March 24 – Connie Hines, American actress (d. 2009) ·
March 26 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor, film director
(Star Trek), and singer (d. 2015) ·
March 27 ·
David Janssen, American actor (The Fugitive)
(d. 1980) ·
Stephen Reinhardt,
American judge (d. 2018) ·
March 28 – Anatoly Lein, Russian-born American chess
Grandmaster (d. 2018) ·
March 29 ·
Aleksei Gubarev, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2015) ·
Norman Tebbit, British politician April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
Ita Ever, Estonian actress ·
Rolf Hochhuth, German writer ·
April 2 – Joseph Joffo, French author (d. 2018) ·
April 5 ·
Jack Clement, American singer-songwriter,
record producer (d. 2013) ·
Héctor
Olivera, Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter ·
April 6 – Suchitra Sen (Roma Dasgupta),
legendary Bengali actress
(d. 2014) ·
April 8 ·
John Gavin, American actor, diplomat
(d. 2018) ·
Jack Stallings, American baseball head,
coach (d. 2018) ·
Mohamed Sahnoun, Algerian diplomat (d. 2018) ·
April 11 ·
Luis Cabral, 1st President of
Guinea-Bissau (d. 2009) ·
Mustafa
Dağıstanlı, Turkish free-style wrestler ·
Johnny Sheffield, American child actor
(d. 2010) ·
April 12 – Chico Anysio, Brazilian actor, comedian,
writer and composer (d. 2012) ·
April 15 ·
Helen Maksagak, Canadian, first Inuk and woman to be Commissioner of
both the Northwest Territories and Nunavut (d. 2009) ·
Tomas Tranströmer,
Swedish poet, translator and recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Literature (d. 2015) ·
April 17 – Esteban Siller, Mexican voice actor
(d. 2013) ·
April 19 – Kobie Coetsee, South African politician
(d. 2000) ·
April 27 – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist ·
April 28 – Nair Bello, Brazilian actress, comedian
(d. 2007) ·
April 29 ·
Don Leo Jonathan, American-Canadian
professional wrestler (d. 2018) ·
Frank Auerbach, German-born painter ·
Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (d. 2002) ·
April 30 ·
Peter La Farge, American singer, songwriter
(d. 1965) ·
Eugene John Gerber,
American Catholic prelate (d. 2018) May[edit]
·
May 1 – Chaudhry Ghulam
Rasool, Pakistani educationist (d. 1991) ·
May 4 – Thomas Stuttaford,
British doctor, politician (d. 2018) ·
May 6 ·
Louis Gambaccini, American civil servant
(d. 2018) ·
Willie Mays, African-American baseball
player ·
May 7 ·
Marta Terry González,
Cuban librarian (d. 2018) ·
Teresa Brewer, American pop, jazz singer
(d. 2007) ·
May 8 – Bob Clotworthy, American diver (d. 2018) ·
May 10 – Ichirō Nagai, Japanese voice actor
(d. 2014) ·
May 13 ·
András Hajnal, Hungarian mathematician
(d. 2016) ·
Jim Jones, American People's Temple cult
leader (d. 1978) ·
Jiří Petr, Czech university president
(d. 2014) ·
May 14 – Alvin Lucier, American composer ·
May 15 ·
Joseph A.
Califano, Jr., American Chairman of the National Center on
Addiction and Substance Abuse ·
Ken Venturi, American golfer (d. 2013) ·
May 16 ·
Magda Guzmán, Mexican actress (d. 2015) ·
Jack Dodson, American actor (d. 1994) ·
Natwar Singh, Indian politician ·
May 17 – Marshall Applewhite,
American Heaven's
Gate religious sect founder (d. 1997) ·
May 18 ·
Don Martin,
American artist (MAD Magazine)
(d. 2000) ·
Robert Morse, American actor ·
Clément Vincent,
Canadian politician (d. 2018) ·
May 19 – Éric Tappy, Swiss tenor ·
May 20 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player
(d. 1982) ·
May 23 ·
Barbara Barrie, American actress ·
Patience Cleveland,
American actress, diarist (d. 2004) ·
May 25 – Georgy Grechko, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2017) ·
May 27 – Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress (d. 2015) ·
May 28 – Carroll Baker, American actress ·
May 30 – John O'Brien,
Irish Catholic priest, musician (d. 2008) ·
May 31 ·
John Schrieffer,
American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
Shirley Verrett, American mezzo-soprano
(d. 2010) June[edit]
·
June 2 ·
Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (d. 2017) ·
Larry Jackson, American baseball player
(d. 1990) ·
June 3 ·
Raúl Castro, President of Cuba ·
Lindy Remigino, American Olympic athlete
(d. 2018) ·
June 7 – Malcolm Morley, English-born painter
(d. 2018) ·
June 8 – Dana Wynter, German-born American actress
(d. 2011) ·
June 9 ·
Jackie Mason, American comedian ·
Joe Santos, American actor (d. 2016) ·
June 10 – João Gilberto, Brazilian musician ·
June 11 – Paul Hardin III, American academic
administrator (d. 2017) ·
June 13 – Moysés Baumstein,
Brazilian holographer, artist (d. 1991) ·
June 14 ·
Kenneth Cope, English actor ·
Ross Higgins, Australian actor (d. 2016) ·
Marla Gibbs, American comedic actress,
singer ·
Junior Walker, American saxophonist, singer
(d. 1995) ·
June 16 – Ivo Petrić, Slovenian composer
(d. 2018) ·
June 17 – Kawther Ramzi, Egyptian actress (d. 2018) ·
June 18 – Fernando
Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil ·
June 20 ·
Olympia Dukakis, American actress ·
Arne Nordheim, Norwegian composer (d. 2010) ·
June 21 ·
Margaret Heckler, American Secretary of
Health and Human Services (d. 2018) ·
David Kushnir, Israeli former Olympic
long-jumper ·
Les Vandyke, American musician ·
June 22 ·
Martin Lipton, American lawyer ·
Ian Browne,
Australian track cyclist ·
Teruyuki Okazaki, Japanese black belt in Shotokan Karate ·
June 23 ·
Doris Cook, American baseball pitcher,
outfielder ·
Ola Ullsten, Swedish politician, diplomat
(d. 2018) ·
Charles Keith Taylor,
Canadian politician ·
June 24 ·
Emilio Fede, Italian anchorman, journalist
and writer ·
Árpád Bárány,
Hungarian fencer ·
George Petchey, English former footballer ·
Gaston Flosse, French politician ·
Juanita Quigley, American child actress
(d. 2017) ·
Billy Casper, American golfer (d. 2015) ·
June 25 ·
Stan Dromisky, Canadian liberal party ·
V. P. Singh, Prime Minister of
India (d. 2008) ·
June 26 ·
Anne-Marie
Jaccottet, Swiss illustrator, painter ·
George Lois, American art director,
designer, and author ·
Robert Colbert, American actor ·
Alan Bailey, former senior British civil
servant ·
Colin Wilson, British writer (d. 2013) ·
June 27 ·
Graziella Galvani,
Italian stage, television and film actress ·
Charles Bronfman, Canadian, American
businessman, philanthropist ·
Geoffrey Harcourt,
Australian academic economist ·
Martinus J. G.
Veltman, Dutch physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Physics ·
June 28 ·
Tom Stolhandske, American football
linebacker ·
Junior Johnson, American NASCAR driver of
the 1950s and 1960s ·
Jenny Glusker, British biochemist,
crystallographer ·
Aleksandar Ivoš,
Serbian footballer ·
Hans Alfredson, Swedish actor, film
director, writer and comedian ·
June 29 ·
Ed Gilbert, American actor, voice actor
(d. 1999) ·
Alina Obidniak, Polish theatre director,
actress ·
Brian Hutton,
Baron Hutton, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and British
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ·
Richard L. Berkley,
American politician ·
June 30 ·
Allan Jay, British foil, épée fencer ·
Don Gross,
American baseball player (d. 2017) ·
Joseph Thomin, French road bicycle racer ·
Ronald Rene Lagueux,
American judge ·
Kaye Vaughan, American football player July[edit]
·
July 1 ·
Leslie Caron, French actress ·
Stanislav Grof, Czech psychiatrist ·
Marilyn Hickey, American televangelist,
speaker and author ·
Seyni Kountché,
former President of Niger (d. 1987) ·
Chris Strachwitz, German-born American
record label executive, record producer ·
July 2 ·
Robert Ito, Canadian actor ·
Oddur Pétursson,
Icelandic cross country skier ·
Frank Williams,
English actor ·
Mohammad Yazdi, Iranian cleric ·
July 3 ·
Claude-Henri Chouard,
French surgeon ·
Mick Cullen, Scottish footballer ·
Dickie Dowsett, English former professional
footballer ·
Ed Roebuck, American Major League Baseball
relief pitcher (d. 2018) ·
Ray Rogers,
American politician ·
July 4 ·
Stephen Boyd, Irish actor (Ben-Hur)
(d. 1977) ·
Bill Gleeson, Australian rules footballer ·
Bobby Malkmus, American Major League
Baseball infielder, scout ·
Lyndell Petersen, American former politician ·
Peter
Richardson, English former cricketer ·
July 5 ·
Aloysius Gordon, British-based Jamaican jazz
pianist, singer (d. 2017) ·
Gerd Lauck, German footballer (d. 2005) ·
António de Macedo,
Portuguese filmmaker, writer, university professor and lecturer (d. 2017) ·
Ismail Mahomed, South African,
Namibian Chief Justice (d. 2000) ·
Ryuzo Sato, Japanese economist ·
Peter Silverman, Canadian broadcast journalist ·
July 6 ·
Jean Campeau, French Canadian businessman,
politician ·
Robert Dunham, American actor, writer
(d. 2001) ·
Maralou Gray, American film, television, and
theater actress ·
Antonella Lualdi, Italian actress, singer ·
Louis Mexandeau, French politician ·
Emily Nasrallah, Lebanese writer, women's
rights activist (d. 2018) ·
Della Reese, African-American actress,
singer and evangelist (d. 2017) ·
July 7 ·
Alex South, English former footballer ·
Charles
Oakley, American football player ·
Sunaryati Hartono,
Indonesian attorney, lawyer, law professor and government official ·
J. Joseph Curran Jr.,
American politician ·
Palle
Kjærulff-Schmidt, Danish film director, screenwriter ·
July 8 ·
Zach Monroe, American baseball player ·
Thorvald Stoltenberg,
Norwegian politician (d. 2018) ·
Lowell N. Lewis, American plant physiology
professor ·
July 9 ·
Sylvia Bacon, American judge ·
Rodney Anderson, American politician ·
Thomas A. Pankok, American Democratic Party
politician ·
July 10 ·
Morris Chang, Chairman of Taiwan
Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) in 1987 ·
Jerry Herman, American composer, lyricist ·
Alice Munro, Canadian writer, recipient of
the Nobel Prize in
Literature ·
Julian May, American science fiction,
fantasy, horror, and science writer (d. 2017) ·
Nick Adams,
American actor (d. 1968) ·
July 11 ·
Tab Hunter, American actor, singer (d. 2018) ·
Yasuo Ōtsuka, Japanese animator ·
July 13 ·
James Cellan Jones,
British television, film director ·
Jim Cairney, Scottish former professional
footballer ·
Arthur Hurst,
Australian rules footballer ·
Ernie Colón, American-born Puerto Rico
comics artist ·
Frank Ramsey,
American professional basketball player, coach ·
July 14 ·
Mirella Ricciardi,
Kenyan photographer, author ·
Maria Musso, Italian sprinter, pentathlete ·
Ray Martini, Australian rules footballer ·
NK Lučko, Croatian football player ·
Robert Stephens, English actor (d. 1995) ·
July 15 ·
Joanna Merlin, American actress ·
Clive Cussler, American author ·
Gene Louw, South African politician ·
July 16 ·
Andrzej Kryński,
Polish fencer ·
Kjell Hansson, Swedish rower ·
Fergus Gordon Kerr,
Scottish Roman Catholic priest of the English Dominican Province ·
Norm Sherry, American Major League Baseball
catcher, manager, and coach ·
July 17 – Caroline Graham, English playwright,
screenwriter and novelist ·
July 18 ·
Mark Pharaoh, English track and field
athlete ·
Maury Duncan, American quarterback ·
July 19 ·
Mary Lou Studnicka,
American female professional baseball player ·
Allan Slaight, Canadian rock and roll
pioneer, media mogul, and philanthropist ·
Marilyn Lewis, American politician ·
Alan Wrigley, Australian writer, commentator ·
July 20 – Gilles Morin, Canadian politician ·
July 21 ·
J. Bob Traxler, American politician ·
Plas Johnson, American musician ·
July 22 – Charles
Huxtable, British Army officer ·
July 23 – Te Arikinui Dame Te
Atairangikaahu, Māori queen (d. 2006) ·
July 25 – Paul Danblon, Belgian composer, opera
director, administrator and journalist (d. 2018) ·
July 26 – Fred Foster, American songwriter, record
producer ·
July 27 – Jerry Van Dyke, American comedian, actor
(d. 2018) August[edit]
·
August 1 – Hal Connolly, American athlete (d. 2010) ·
August 2 ·
Sha'ari Tadin, Malaysian politician
(d. 2009) ·
Ruth Maria
Kubitschek, German actress ·
August 3 – Vladimir Trusenyov,
Russian discus thrower (d. 2001) ·
August 6 ·
Ron Feiereisel, American basketball player,
coach (d. 2000) ·
Mohammad-Reza
Mahdavi Kani, Iranian cleric, writer and politician (d. 2014) ·
August 7 – Charles
E. "Charlie" Rice, American legal scholar, author ·
August 9 – Mário Zagallo, Brazilian football player,
manager ·
August 10 – Tom Laughlin, American actor (Billy Jack) (d. 2013) ·
August 12 – William Goldman, American author (d. 2018) ·
August 14 – Robert Anthony
Brucato, American Roman Catholic prelate (d. 2018) ·
Joe Feeney, American singer (d. 2008) ·
Richard F. Heck, American chemist, recipient
of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry (d. 2015) ·
Janice Rule, American actress (d. 2003) ·
Marion Patrick Jones,
Trinidadian writer (d. 2016) ·
Harold Bernard
St. John, 3rd Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 2004) ·
Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Minister
of Foreign Affairs and Deputy
Prime Minister (d. 2010) ·
Bramwell Tillsley,
Canadian General of The Salvation Army ·
August 19 – Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003) ·
August 20 – Don King,
American boxing promoter ·
Richard
Vincent, Baron Vincent of Coleshill, British military officer,
life peer (d. 2018) ·
Barbara Eden, American actress, singer (I Dream of Jeannie) ·
Lyle Lahey, American cartoonist (d. 2013) ·
Hamilton O. Smith,
American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine ·
Hal Fishman, Los Angeles-based American
local news anchor (d. 2007) ·
Regis Philbin, American television
personality (d. 2018) ·
Cecil Andrus, American politician ·
Sri Chinmoy, Bengali spiritual teacher,
poet, artist and athlete who immigrated to the U.S. in 1964 (d. 2007) ·
Clarence James, Bermudian surgeon,
politician (d. 2016) ·
Shunichiro Okano, Japanese football player,
manager (d. 2017) ·
John Shirley-Quirk,
English bass-baritone (d. 2014) ·
Jacques Braunstein,
Romanian-born Venezuelan economist, publicist and disc jockey (d. 2009) ·
Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982) ·
Jean Béliveau, Canadian hockey player
(d. 2014) ·
Kenny Burrell, American jazz musician ·
Noble Willingham, American actor (d. 2004) ·
Chris Avram, Romanian-Italian film actor
(d. 1989) September[edit]
·
Cecil Parkinson, British politician
(d. 2016) ·
Richard Hundley, American pianist, composer
(d. 2018) ·
Javier Solís, Mexican ranchera & bolero
singer (d. 1966) ·
September 2 – Zoltán Latinovits,
Hungarian actor (d. 1976) ·
Paulo Maluf, Brazilian politician ·
Tom Brewer, American baseball player
(d. 2018) ·
September 4 – Mitzi Gaynor, American actress, singer and
dancer ·
September 5 – Moshé Mizrahi, Israeli film director
(d. 2018) ·
September 6 – Bassano Staffieri,
Italian bishop (d. 2018) ·
September 7 – Josep Lluís Núñez,
Spanish businessman and football club president (d. 2018) ·
September 8 – Jack Rosenthal, English playwright (d. 2004) ·
Philip Baker Hall,
American actor ·
Idelisa Bonnelly, Dominican marine biologist ·
Ian Holm, British actor ·
George Jones, American country music singer,
songwriter (d. 2013) ·
Bill McKinney, American character actor
(d. 2011) ·
September 13 – Barbara Bain, American actress (Mission: Impossible) ·
September 15 – Brian
Henderson, Australian broadcaster ·
September 16 – E. C. George
Sudarshan, Indian theoretical physicist (d. 2018) ·
Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005) ·
Princess
Lalla Aicha of Morocco (d. 2011) ·
Ray Danton, American actor (d. 1992) ·
Hiroto Muraoka, Japanese football player
(d. 2017) ·
Gertrude Alderfer,
American female professional baseball player ·
Shmuel Auerbach, Israeli Haredi rabbi
(d. 2018) ·
Gloria Cordes, American female professional
baseball player (d. 2018) ·
Larry Hagman, American actor, director (Dallas) (d. 2012) ·
Fay Weldon, British author ·
George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie,
British politician (d. 2003) ·
September 23 – Gerald Merrithew, Canadian educator,
statesman (d. 2004) ·
September 24 – Tom Adams,
2nd Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 1985) ·
September 27 – Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer, actor ·
James Cronin, American nuclear physicist,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Physics (d. 2016) ·
Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (d. 2015) ·
Angie Dickinson, American actress ·
Wesley L. Fox, U.S. Marine Corps officer
(d. 2017) October[edit]
·
October 1 – Alan Wagner, American opera critic (d. 2007) ·
Jakob Schönenberger,
Swiss banker, politician (d. 2018) ·
Morris Cerullo, American televangelist ·
October 3 – Denise Scott Brown,
American architect ·
October 6 – Riccardo Giacconi,
Italian-born physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Physics ·
Cotton Fitzsimmons,
American basketball coach (d. 2004) ·
Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican
archbishop, activist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ·
October 11 – Calcedonio Di Pisa,
Italian criminal (d. 1962) ·
Eddie Mathews, American baseball player
(d. 2001) ·
Raymond Kopa, French footballer (d. 2017) ·
October 15 – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam,
President of India (d. 2015) ·
Mílton Alves da
Silva, Brazilian football player (d. 1973) ·
James Chace, American historian (d. 2004) ·
Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress, humanitarian ·
Charles Colson, American politician, Watergate conspirator, later evangelist
(d. 2012) ·
José Alencar, Brazilian politician (d. 2011) ·
Ernst Hinterberger,
Austrian writer (d. 2012) ·
John le Carré, English novelist ·
Manolo Escobar, Spanish singer, actor
(d. 2013) ·
October 20 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player
(d. 1995) ·
October 21 – Shammi Kapoor, Indian film actor, director
(d. 2011) ·
October 22 – Ann Rule, American true-crime writer
(d. 2015) ·
Jim Bunning, American baseball player, U.S.
Senator (d. 2017) ·
Diana Dors, English actress (d. 1984) ·
October 24 – Ken Utsui, Japanese actor (d. 2014) ·
October 25 – Jimmy McIlroy, Irish footballer, football
manager ·
Larry Lieber, American comic book artist and
writer ·
Suhaila Noah, spouse of the Prime Minister
of Malaysia (d. 2014) ·
Hank Garrett, American actor, comedian ·
October 28 – Harold Battiste, American composer, arranger
(d. 2015) ·
October 29 – Franco Interlenghi,
Italian actor (d. 2015) ·
October 30 – Rita Crocker
Clements, American political organizer (d. 2018) ·
Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian feminist
campaigner ·
Jack Molinas, American basketball player
(d. 1975) ·
Dan Rather, American television news
reporter (CBS Evening News) November[edit]
·
November 1 – Shunsuke Kikuchi, Japanese composer ·
November 2 – Phil Woods, American saxophonist (d. 2015) ·
Michael Fu Tieshan,
Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association bishop (d. 2007) ·
Monica Vitti, Italian actress ·
November 4 – Marie Mansfield, American professional
baseball player ·
Ike Turner, African-American singer,
songwriter (d. 2007) ·
Diane Pearson, British book editor, novelist
(d. 2017) ·
Mike Nichols, German-American television
actor, writer and director (d. 2014) ·
Peter
Collins, British racing driver (d. 1958) ·
Darla Hood, American child actress, voice actress
and singer (Our Gang)
(d. 1979) ·
Morley Safer, Canadian journalist (60 Minutes) (d. 2016) ·
Jack Collom, American poet, essayist and
poetry teacher (d. 2017) ·
November 9 – Whitey Herzog, American baseball player ·
November 10 – Don Henderson, British actor (d. 1997) ·
Majida Boulila, Tunisian militant (d. 1952) ·
Mary Louise Wilson,
American actress, singer ·
November 14 – Dolores Crow, American politician,
legislator (d. 2018) ·
John Kerr,
American actor (d. 2013) ·
Mwai Kibaki, 3rd President of Kenya ·
November 16 – Hubert Sumlin, American blues musician
(d. 2011) ·
Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian physicist
(d. 1985) ·
Malcolm Williamson,
Australian composer (d. 2003) ·
November 26 – Adolfo Pérez
Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ·
Dervla Murphy, Irish author ·
Tomi Ungerer, French book illustrator,
writer ·
November 29 – Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor (d. 1997) December[edit]
·
Jimmy Lyons, American musician (d. 1986) ·
Jim Nesbitt, American country music singer
(d. 2007) ·
George Maxwell
Richards, President
of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2018) ·
Nigel Calder, British science writer
(d. 2014) ·
Edwin Meese, American attorney, law
professor, and author; 75th Attorney General of the United States (1985–1988) ·
Wynton Kelly, Jamaican-American jazz
pianist, composer (d. 1971) ·
December 3 – Jaye P. Morgan, American singer, chanteuse ·
December 5 – Jayant Ganpat
Nadkarni, Indian Navy admiral (d. 2018) ·
Richard N. Goodwin,
American writer (d. 2018) ·
Carmela Rey, Mexican singer, actress
(d. 2018) ·
December 9 – Ladislav Smoljak, Czech film, theater
director, actor and screenwriter (d. 2010) ·
December 10 – Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, 10th Viscount Boyne,
Irish peer, soldier and banker (d. 1995) ·
Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican-American actress (West Side Story) ·
Benny Spellman, American R&B singer
(d. 2011) ·
December 15 – Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish writer (d. 2015) ·
December 16 – Ralph Wolfe Cowan,
American portrait artist (d. 2018) ·
December 17 – Dave Madden, Canadian, American actor (The Partridge Family)
(d. 2014) ·
December 18 – André S. Labarthe,
French actor (d. 2018) ·
Redha Malek, 8th Prime Minister of Algeria
(d. 2017) ·
Georgi
Naydenov, Bulgarian footballer manager (d. 1970) ·
December 22 – Carlos Graça, 6th Prime Minister of São Tomé
and Príncipe (d. 2013) ·
December 23 – Ronnie Schell, American actor ·
December 24 – Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer (d. 2008) ·
December 26 – Roger Piantoni, French footballer (d. 2018) ·
Edward E. Hammer, American electrical
engineer, inventor (d. 2012) ·
John Charles, Welsh international footballer
(d. 2004) ·
Scotty Moore, American guitarist (d. 2016) ·
December 28 – Martin Milner, American actor (Adam-12) (d. 2015) ·
Charles Bassett, American electrical
engineer, astronaut (d. 1966) ·
Skeeter Davis, American singer (d. 2004) ·
December 31 – Bob Shaw, Irish writer (d. 1996) Deaths[edit] January - April[edit]
·
January 3 – Joseph Joffre, French World War I general (b. 1852) ·
Art Acord, American actor (b. 1890) ·
Roger Connor, American baseball
player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1857) ·
Louise, Princess
Royal, British royal, eldest daughter of Edward VII of the United Kingdom
(b. 1867) ·
January 11 – James Milton Carroll,
American Baptist pastor, historian, and author (b. 1852) ·
January 14 – Hardy Richardson, American baseball player
(b. 1855) ·
January 17 – Grand
Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (b. 1864) ·
January 22 – Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897) ·
Anna Pavlova, Soviet ballerina (b. 1881) ·
Ernst
Seidler von Feuchtenegg, former Minister-President of Austria
(b. 1862) ·
January 24 – Sir Percy
FitzPatrick, South African author, politician and mining financier
(b. 1862) ·
February 1 – Prince
Emmanuel, Duke of Vendome (b. 1872) ·
February 11 – Charles Algernon
Parsons, British inventor (b. 1854) ·
February 16 – Wilhelm von Gloeden,
German photographer (b. 1856) ·
February 18 – Louis Wolheim, American actor (b. 1880) ·
February 19 – Tovmas Nazarbekian,
Armenian general (b. 1855) ·
Eduard von Capelle,
German admiral (b. 1855) ·
Dame Nellie Melba, Australian soprano (b. 1861) ·
February 24 – Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (b. 1852) ·
February 26 – Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1847) ·
February 28 – Thomas S. Rodgers,
American admiral (b. 1858) ·
March 5 – Arthur Tooth, Anglican clergyman (b. 1839) ·
March 7 ·
Akseli
Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter (b. 1865) ·
Theo van Doesburg,
Dutch painter (b. 1883) ·
March 11 – F. W. Murnau, German director (b. 1888) ·
March 20 ·
Alfred Giles,
Australian explorer (b. 1846) ·
Hermann
Müller, German journalist, politician and 12th Chancellor of
Germany (b. 1876) ·
Joseph B. Murdock,
United States Navy admiral, New Hampshire politician (b. 1851) ·
March 21 – Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary (b. 1908) ·
March 22 – James
Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer, politician (b. 1851) ·
March 23 – Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary hero
(b. 1907) ·
March 24 – Robert Edeson, American actor (b. 1868) ·
March 25 – Ida Wells, African-American anti-lynching crusader (b. 1862) ·
March 27 – Arnold Bennett, British novelist (b. 1867) ·
March 28 – Ban Johnson, American baseball executive
(b. 1864) ·
March 31 – Knute Rockne, American football coach
(b. 1888) ·
April 1 – Macklyn Arbuckle, American actor (b. 1866) ·
April 8 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt,
Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1864) ·
April 9 – Nicholas Longworth,
American politician, Speaker of the House (b. 1869) ·
April 10 – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet, painter
(b. 1883) ·
April 14 – Richard Armstedt, German historian (b. 1851) ·
April 15 ·
Joe Masseria, American gangster (b. 1886) ·
Prince
Thomas, Duke of Genoa (b. 1854) ·
April 17 – Ernesto Rossi,
American gangster (b. 1903) ·
April 20 – Sir Cosmo
Duff-Gordon, British baronet, Titanic survivor (b. 1862) ·
April 26 – George Herbert Mead,
American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist (b. 1863) ·
April 27 – Albert,
Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1869) ·
April 30 – Sammy Woods, English cricketer (b. 1867) May - August[edit]
·
May 2 – George Fisher Baker,
American financier, philanthropist (b. 1840) ·
May 9 – Albert Abraham
Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1852) ·
May 14 – David Belasco, American Broadway impresario,
theater owner and playwright (b. 1853) ·
June 2 – Joseph W. Farnham,
American screenwriter (b. 1884) ·
June 4 – Hussein
bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Arab nationalist ·
June 8 – Virginia
Frances Sterrett, American artist, illustrator (b. 1900) ·
June 21 – Pio del Pilar, Filipino activist (b. 1860) ·
June 22 – Armand Fallières,
President of France (b. 1841) ·
July 4 ·
Buddie Petit, American jazz musician ·
Prince Emanuele
Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta (b. 1869) ·
July 11 – William Jasper
Spillman, American economist (b. 1863) ·
July 12 – Nathan Söderblom,
Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1866) ·
August 6 – Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz trumpeter
(b. 1903) ·
August 14 – Patriarch Damian I of
Jerusalem (b. 1848) ·
August 15 – Nigar Shikhlinskaya,
Azerbaijani World War I nurse
(b. 1878) ·
Frank Harris, Irish author, editor (b. 1856) ·
Hamaguchi Osachi, Japanese politician,
27th Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1870) ·
August 27 – Francis Marion Smith,
American businessman (b. 1846) ·
September 4 – Archduke
Leopold Salvator of Austria (b. 1863) ·
September 5 – John
Thomson, Scottish footballer (b. 1909) ·
September 7 – Federico Tinoco
Granados, 21st President of
Costa Rica (b. 1868) ·
September 10 – Salvatore Maranzano,
Italian mobster (b. 1886) ·
Francis J. Higginson,
United States Navy admiral (b. 1843) ·
Joseph Le Brix, French aviator, naval
officer (b. 1899) September - December[edit]
Archduke
Leopold Salvator of Austria ·
September 9 – Lujo Brentano, German economist (b. 1844) ·
September 13 – Prince
Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (b. 1866) ·
September 16 – Omar Mukhtar, Libyan resistance leader (b. 1858) ·
Marcello Amero
D'Aste, Italian admiral, politician (b. 1853) ·
Marvin Hart, American World Heavyweight
Boxing Champion (b. 1876) ·
September 18 – Geli Raubal, German niece of Adolf Hitler
(b. 1908) ·
September 19 – David Starr Jordan,
American ichthyologist, educator, eugenicist, and peace activist (b. 1851) ·
September 29 – William Orpen, Irish artist (b. 1878) ·
October 3 – Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (b. 1865) ·
October 13 – Ernst Didring, Swedish writer (b. 1868) ·
October 18 – Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847) ·
October 21 – Arthur Schnitzler,
Austrian author, dramatist (b. 1862) ·
October 24 – Sir Murray Bisset, South African cricketer,
Governor of Southern Rhodesia (b. 1876) ·
November 4 – Buddy Bolden, American musician (b. 1877) ·
November 6 – Jack Chesbro, American baseball
player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1874) ·
November 11 – Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist
(b. 1840) ·
November 13 – Ivan Fichev, Bulgarian general, minister of
defense, military historian, and academician (b. 1860) ·
November 20 – Julius Drewe, British businessman, retailer
and entrepreneur (b. 1856) ·
November 21 – Bruno von Mudra, German general (b. 1851) ·
November 27 – Robert Ames,
American actor (b. 1889) ·
December 2 – Vincent d'Indy, French composer (b. 1851) ·
December 5 – Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879) ·
December 9 – Antonio Salandra, Italian statesman,
21st Prime Minister of
Italy (b. 1853) ·
December 18 – Jack Diamond, American gangster (b. 1897) ·
December 23 – Tyrone Power Sr, English-born American actor
(b. 1869) ·
December 26 – Melvil Dewey, American librarian, inventor
of the Dewey
Decimal Classification (b. 1851) ·
December 27 – José Figueroa
Alcorta, Argentine politician, 16th President of
Argentina (b. 1860) Nobel Prizes[edit]
·
Physics –
not awarded ·
Chemistry – Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Otto Heinrich
Warburg ·
Literature – Erik Axel Karlfeldt ·
Peace – Jane Addams, Nicholas Murray
Butler References[edit] 1.
^ Gandhi, Rajmohan (2008). Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire.
University of California Press. ISBN 9780520255708. 2.
^ "New Delhi: The Inaugural Ceremony". The Times (45744). London. 1931-02-11.
p. 12. 3.
^ "Wiley Post".
centennialofflight.gov. Archived from the original on October 8, 2012. 4.
^ BBC History, July 2011, p12. 5.
^ "J&K observes Martyrs` day: CM Omar pays
tributes". Zee News. 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2011-12-18. 6.
^ "Pangborn-Herndon
Memorial Site". Aviation: From Sand Dunes To Sonic
Booms. National Park
Service. Retrieved 2012-05-31. 7.
^ "The Red and White Party". Cocktails
With Elvira. 2011-10-26. Retrieved 2014-01-30. External links[edit] ·
The 1930s Timeline: 1931 – from
American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia ·
1931:
A Glance at the Twentieth Century by Henry Hartshorne |
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