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1931: The Year in People

The Silent Generation · Year of the Goat 🐐 · Born in 1931 turn 95 in 2026

The year in numbers

Gas, per gallon

$0.17

US population

2.09B

US president

Herbert Hoover

Top song

"Minnie the Moocher" — Cab Calloway

Top film

Frankenstein

Best Picture

Cimarron

In the news: The Empire State Building opens as the world's tallest

What happened in 1931

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.

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Born in 1931

137 people in our data · most viewed first

Jim Jones

Jim Jones

1931–1978 · May 13

American cult leader and mass murderer

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

1931–2015 · October 15

President of India from 2002 to 2007

Anne Bancroft

Anne Bancroft

1931–2005 · September 17

American actress

Barbara Eden

Barbara Eden

b. 1931 · August 23

American actress and singer

Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin

1931–2007 · February 1

President of Russia from 1991 to 1999

Angie Dickinson

Angie Dickinson

b. 1931 · September 30

American actress

Diana Dors

Diana Dors

1931–1984 · October 23

English actress and singer

Carroll Baker

Carroll Baker

b. 1931 · May 28

American actress

Albert DeSalvo

Albert DeSalvo

1931–1973 · September 3

American rapist and suspected serial killer

Charles Nelson Reilly

Charles Nelson Reilly

1931–2007 · January 13

American comedian and actor

Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu

1931–2021 · October 7

South African bishop and anti-apartheid activist

Isabel Perón

Isabel Perón

b. 1931 · February 4

President of Argentina from 1974 to 1976

Ferenc Mádl

Ferenc Mádl

1931–2011 · January 29

President of Hungary from 2000 to 2005

Barbara Bain

Barbara Bain

b. 1931 · September 13

American actress

Claire Bloom

Claire Bloom

b. 1931 · February 15

English actress

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Allen Klein

1931–2009 · December 18

American businessman best known for managing The Beatles and Rolling Stones

Chun Doo-hwan

Chun Doo-hwan

1931–2021 · January 18

Leader of South Korea from 1979 to 1988

Anthony Newley

Anthony Newley

1931–1999 · September 24

English actor, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker

Anita Ekberg

Anita Ekberg

1931–2015 · September 29

Swedish actress

Clive Cussler

Clive Cussler

1931–2020 · July 15

American novelist and underwater explorer

Alice Munro

Alice Munro

1931–2024 · July 10

Canadian short story writer

Barbara Barrie

Barbara Barrie

b. 1931 · May 23

American actress and author

Faten Hamama

Faten Hamama

1931–2015 · May 27

Egyptian actress and producer

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George Baker (British actor)

1931–2011 · April 1

English actor and writer

Died in 1931

  • Bhagat Singh1907–1931 · Indian revolutionary
  • Bhagat Singh1907–1931 · Indian revolutionary
  • Anna Pavlova1881–1931 · Russian ballet dancer
  • Denys Finch Hatton1887–1931 · British aristocrat and big-game hunter
  • F. W. Murnau1888–1931 · German film director
  • Bix Beiderbecke1903–1931 · American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer
  • Arthur Schnitzler1862–1931 · Austrian author and dramatist
  • Arnold Bennett1867–1931 · English author
  • Daniel Hale Williams1856–1931 · American cardiologist
  • Albert A. Michelson1852–1931 · American experimental physicist
  • Akseli Gallen-Kallela1865–1931 · Finnish painter
  • Daniel Chester French1850–1931 · American sculptor
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