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1931 is a common year starting on Thursday .
Events
January-March
April-August
April 1 - Earthquake destroys Managua , Nicaragua - over 2000 deadApril 6 - Portuguese government declares martial law in Madeira and in the Azores because of an attempted military takeover in Funchal April 9 - Execution of Argentinean anarchist Severino DigiovanniApril 14 - 2nd Spanish Republic proclaimed in Spain April 22 - Austria , Britain , Denmark , Germany , Italy , Sweden and USA recognize the Spanish Republic May 1 - Construction of the Empire State Building is completed in New York City May 4 - Kemal Atatürk re-elected president of Turkey May 13 - Paul Doumer elected president of France June 12 - Charlie Parker equals J.T. Hearne's record for the earliest date to reach 100 wickets.June 14 - Yacht St Philiebert sinks in river Loire in France - over 500 drownJune 23 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane. 1 July 1 - Official opening of Milan Central Station July 16 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia signs the first constitution of Ethiopia Huang He floods kill between 850,000 and 4,000,000 people - the most deadly historic natural disaster .August 24 - Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald resigns in Britain - replaced by National Government of people drawn from all parties also under MacDonald.August 31 - Yangtze River floods - 23 million made homeless
September-December
Undated
Births
January
January 5 - Alvin Ailey , American choreographer (d. 1989 )January 5 - Alfred Brendel , Austrian pianist
January 5 - Robert Duvall , American actor and director
January 6 - E. L. Doctorow , American authorJanuary 8 - Bill Graham , German concert promoter (d. 1991 )January 10 - Peter Barnes , English playwright and screenwriter (d. 2004 )January 13 - Charles Nelson Reilly , American actorJanuary 14 - Caterina Valente , French singer and actressJanuary 16 - Johannes Rau , President of Germany January 17 - James Earl Jones , American actorJanuary 19 - Tippi Hedren , American actressJanuary 19 - Robert MacNeil , Canadian journalist
January 20 - David Lee , American physicist, Nobe Prize laureateJanuary 22 - Sam Cooke , American singer (d. 1964 )January 27 - Mordecai Richler , Canadian author (d. 2001 )January 30 - Allan W. Eckert , American historian, naturalist, and authorJanuary 31 - Ernie Banks , baseball player
February-April
February 1 - Boris Yeltsin , President of Russia February 2 - Dries van Agt , Dutch politicianFebruary 6 - Rip Torn , American actor and directorFebruary 8 - James Dean , American actor (d. 1955 )February 10 - Thomas Bernhard , Dutch author (d. 1989 )February 11 - Larry Merchant , author and boxing commentatorFebruary 18 - Johnny Hart , American cartoonistFebruary 18 - Toni Morrison , American writer, Nobel Prize laureate
February 18 - Bob St. Clair , American football star
February 24 - Brian Close , British cricket playerFebruary 26 - Ally McLeod , Scottish football managerFebruary 28 - Dean Smith , American basketball coachMarch 2 - Mikhail Gorbachev , President of the Soviet Union , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize March 2 - Tom Wolfe , American author
March 11 - Rupert Murdoch , Australian-born publisherMarch 22 - Burton Richter , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureateMarch 22 - William Shatner , Canadian actor
March 26 - Leonard Nimoy , American actor and directorMarch 29 - Aleksei Gubarev , cosmonautApril 1 - Rolf Hochhuth , German writerApril 27 - Igor Oistrakh , Ukrainian violinistApril 29 - Frank Auerbach , German-born painterApril 29 - Lonnie Donegan , Scottish musician (d. 2002 )
May-August
May 6 - Willie Mays , baseball playerMay 7 - Teresa Brewer , American singerMay 13 - Jim Jones , American cult leader (d. 1978 )May 14 - Alvin Lucier , American composerMay 15 - Ken Venturi , American golferMay 16 - Natwar Singh , Indian politicianMay 18 - Robert Morse , American actorMay 19 - Eric Tappy , Swiss tenorMay 20 - Ken Boyer , baseball player (d. 1982 )May 25 - Georgi Grechko , cosmonautMay 31 - John Robert Schrieffer , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureateMay 31 - Shirley Verrett , American mezzo-soprano
June 3 - Lindy Remigino , American athleteJune 7 - Malcolm Morley , English-born painterJune 9 - Joe Santos , American actorJune 27 - Martinus J. G. Veltman , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureateJuly 1 - Leslie Caron , French actressJuly 10 - Alice Munro , Canadian writerJuly 26 - Fred Foster , American songwriter and record producerAugust 12 - William Goldman , American authorAugust 19 - Willie Shoemaker , American jockey (d. 2003 )August 28 - John Shirley-Quirk , English bass-baritoneAugust 31 - Jean Béliveau , Canadian hockey player
September-December
September 22 - Fay Weldon , British authorSeptember 22 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie , British politician (d. 2003 )
September 23 - Gerald Stairs Merrithew , Canadian educator and statesman (d. 2004 )September 29 - James Watson Cronin , American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureateSeptember 29 - Anita Ekberg , Swedish actress
September 30 - Wesley L. Fox , U.S. Marine Corps officerOctober 6 - Riccardo Giacconi , Italian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureateOctober 7 - Cotton Fitzsimmons , American basketball coach (d. 2004 )October 7 - Desmond Tutu , South African Anglican archbishop and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
October 13 - Eddie Mathews , baseball player (d. 2001 )October 20 - Mickey Mantle , baseball player (d. 1995 )October 23 - Jim Bunning , baseball player and U.S. SenatorOctober 23 - Diana Dors , English actress
November 21 - Malcolm Williamson , Australian composer (d. 2003 )November 23 - Dervla Murphy , Irish authorNovember 26 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel , Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize November 28 - Hope Lange , American actress (d. 2003 )December 23 - Ronnie Schell , American actorDecember 24 - Mauricio Kagel , Argentine composerDecember 30 - Skeeter Davis , Ameircan singer (d. 2004 )December 31 - Bob Shaw , British author (d. 1996 )
Deaths
January 14 - Hardy Richardson , baseball player (b. 1855 )January 23 - Anna Pavlova , Russian ballerina (b. 1881 )February 11 - Charles Algernon Parsons , British inventor (b. 1854 )February 16 - Wilhelm von Gloeden , German photographer (b. 1856 )February 26 - Otto Wallach , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847 )March 7 - Akseli Gallén-Kallela , Finnish painter (b. 1865 )March 11 - F.W. Murnau , German director (b. 1888 )March 21 - Bhagat Singh , Indian revolutionary (b. 1908 )March 31 - Knute Rockne , American football coach (b. 1888 )April 8 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt , Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864 )April 10 - Khalil Gibran Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883 )April 30 - Sammy Woods , English cricketer (b. 1867 )May 9 - Albert Abraham Michelson , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852 )May 14 - David Belasco , American writer (b. 1853 )July 4 - Buddie Petit , American jazz musicianJuly 12 - Nathan Söderblom , Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1866 )August 6 - Bix Beiderbecke , American jazz trumpeter (b. 1903 )August 27 - Frank Harris , Irish author and or (b. 1856 )August 27 - Francis Marion Smith , American borax magnate (b. 1846 )
October 13 - Ernst Didring , Swedish writer (b. 1868 )October 18 - Thomas Edison , American inventor (b. 1847 )November 11 - Shibusawa Eiichi , Japanese industrialist (b. 1840 )December 2 - Vincent d'Indy , French composer (b. 1851 )
Undated
Nobel Prizes
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