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August 2019 1931 1931 border:none;b 3/3 0964.a.0730.tif Bundesarchiv Bild 102-12023, Berlin, Bankenkrach, Andrang bei der Sparkasse.jpg Mukden 1931 japan shenyang.jpg 1931 Hawkes Bay Earthquake - Collapsed Building (unidentified) (24655070915) (cropped).jpg 3.7inchHowitzerBarzanOperations1932.jpg Empire State Building exterior (cropped).jpg 350 From top to bottom, left to right: The catastrophic 1931 China floods submerge vast regions along the Yangtze, Huai, and Yellow Rivers, killing 1–4 million and becoming one of history's deadliest natural disasters; The European banking crisis of 1931 begins with the collapse of Creditanstalt, spreading financial turmoil across Austria and Germany and deepening the Great Depression; The Mukden Incident in Manchuria sees a staged explosion by Japanese forces used to justify invasion, setting the stage for the Second Sino-Japanese War; The Hawke's Bay earthquake strikes New Zealand's North Island, killing 256 and prompting a massive Art Deco rebuilding of Napier; The Ahmed Barzani revolt erupts in northern Iraq as Kurdish forces challenge the government, highlighting ethnic tensions; Empire State Building opens in New York City, becoming the world's tallest skyscraper and a symbol of modern ambition. 1931 1931 2 Events January January 1931 January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.corporateName=National Museum of Australia; address=Lawson Crescent Acton Peninsula National Museum of Australia - First Australian-born governor-general https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/first-australian-born-governor-general 2025-08-05 www.nma.gov.au en January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India.https://books.google.com/books?id=FauJL7LKXmkC&q=gandhi+prison1931&pg=PA127 Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire Gandhi Rajmohan 2008 University of California Press 9780520255708 en January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. January 30 – Charlie Chaplin comedy drama film City Lights receives its public premiere at the Los Angeles Theater with Albert Einstein as guest of honor. Contrary to the current trend in cinema, it is a silent film, but with a score by Chaplin. Critically and commercially successful from the start, it will place consistently in lists of films considered the best of all time.City Lights https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/city_lights.pdf Vance Jeffrey Library of Congress 2021-01-09 February February 1931 thumb|230px|right|February 10: New Delhi becomes India's capital thumb|200x200px|February 21: Ford Trimotor hijacked 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.New Delhi: The Inaugural Ceremony The Times London 1931-02-11 45744 12 February 16 – Pehr Evind Svinhufvud is elected president of Finland. February 19 – The Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia is dissolved and reformed as the Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, an autonomous republic of Soviet Georgia, resulting in public protests.Blauvelt Timothy Timothy K. Blauvelt May 2007 Abkhazia: Patronage and Power in the Stalin Era Nationalities Papers 35 2 203–232 10.1080/00905990701254318 128803263 February 21 – Peruvian revolutionaries hijack a Ford Trimotor aeroplane, and demand that the pilot drop propaganda leaflets over Lima. March March 1931 March 5 – The British viceroy of India and Mohandas Gandhi sign the Gandhi–Irwin Pact. March 7 – The Finnish Parliament House 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 23 – Indian revolutionary leaders Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for conspiracy to murder in the British Raj. March 31 – An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000 people. April April 1931 April 1 – The Second Encirclement Campaign against Jiangxi Soviet in China is launched by the Kuomintang government, 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 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 – Assassination of Giuseppe (Joe the Boss) Masseria, New York City Mafia boss. 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 May 1931 thumb|188x188px| May 1: Empire State Building is completed. May 1 – Construction of the Empire State Building is completed in New York City.History of the New York City Landmark Empire State Building https://www.esbnyc.com/about/history 2025-09-16 www.esbnyc.com en 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 June 1931 June–November – 1931 China flood: the Yangtze and Huai Rivers flood in a populous region, leaving an estimated 422,000 dead (150,000 drowned) with many more dying of consequential starvation and disease in the aftermath.The Nature of Disaster in China The 1931 Yangzi River Flood Chris Courtney 2018 Cambridge University Press 10.1017/9781108278362 9781108278362 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/nature-of-disaster-in-china/1483BBD53BA764B54EE882EF699B1299 June 5 German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning visits London, where he warns 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. Anti-Chinese rioting occurs in Pyongyang. Approximately 127 Chinese people are killed, 393 wounded, and a considerable number of properties are destroyed by Korean residents.Em Henry https://books.google.com/books?id=DxAd2Aw_jP0C The Great Enterprise: Sovereignty and Historiography in Modern Korea, Part 2 2013 Duke University Press 978-0822353720 Durham 125 21 August 2017 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.http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/Wiley_Post/EX27.htm centennialofflight.gov Wiley Post https://web.archive.org/web/20121008043851/http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/Wiley_Post/EX27.htm October 8, 2012 July July 1931 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.BBC History, July 2011, p12. July 10 – Norway issues a royal proclamation claiming the uninhabited part of eastern Greenland as Erik the Red's Land. July 13 – Royal soldiers shoot and kill 22 people demonstrating against the Maharaja Hari Singh, of the Indian princely state of Kashmir and Jammu.http://zeenews.india.com/news/jammu-and-kashmir/jandk-observes-martyrs-day-cm-omar-pays-tributes_719325.html J&K observes Martyrs' day: CM Omar pays tributes 2011-07-13 Zee News 2011-12-18 July 16 – Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first Constitution of Ethiopia. July 20 – A violent tornado strikes the city of Lublin, Poland. August August 1931 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. 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 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 September 1931 thumb|September 18: The Mukden Incident: Incident Museum in Shenyang|230x230px 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 18 – The Japanese military stages the Mukden Incident, an explosion blamed on Chinese dissidents and used as a pretext for the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.Sara Rector Smith The Manchurian Crisis, 1931-1932: A Tragedy in International Relations https://books.google.com/books?id=-dAmAQAAMAAJ 1970 Greenwood Press 978-0-8371-3344-7 22 September 19 – The United Kingdom abandons the gold standard.Kanti Singh The Great Depression and Agrarian Economy: A Study of an Underdeveloped Region of India https://books.google.com/books?id=xTFffW2iygwC&pg=PA63 1 January 1987 Mittal Publications 63 September 20 – Held at gunpoint, the Chinese commander of Kirin province announces the annexation of that territory to Japan. October October 1931 October 5 – American aviators Clyde Edward Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr., complete the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean, flying their plane, Miss Veedol, from Misawa, Japan, to East Wenatchee, Washington, in 41½ hours.Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site http://www.nps.gov/nr//travel/aviation/pan.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20071123025521/http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/aviation/pan.htm dead November 23, 2007 Aviation: From Sand Dunes To Sonic Booms National Park Service 2012-05-31 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. October 24 – The George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River in the United States is dedicated; it opens to traffic the following day. At 3500 ft 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 November 1931 November 7 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.Jing Xu Dengfeng Wang Dual Identity and Multiple Tasks: Contemporary Chinese Party Media's Involvement in Political Communication LCM Journal 2018 5 2 November 8 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 26 – Heavy hydrogen, later named deuterium, is discovered by American chemist Harold Urey.Briton Hadden Time https://books.google.com/books?id=QAcfAQAAMAAJ 1935 Time Incorporated 54 December December 1931 December 5 – The original Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow (1883) is demolished, 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. December 10 – 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, 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. 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P. J. Abdul Kalam October 3 Denise Scott Brown, American architect Glenn Hall, Canadian ice hocker player (d. 2026) October 4 – Richard Rorty, American philosopher (d. 2007) October 6 – Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born astrophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2018)G. Ramamurthy Biographical Dictionary of Great Astronomers https://books.google.com/books?id=0igmn9fzaUYC&pg=PA81 2005 Sura Books 978-81-7478-697-5 81 October 7 Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican archbishop, activist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2021) Jack Berry, American sports journalist (d. 2026) October 13 – Raymond Kopa, French footballer (d. 2017) October 15 – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, President of India (d. 2015) October 16 – Charles Colson, American politician, Watergate conspirator, later evangelist (d. 2012) October 17 – José Alencar, Brazilian politician (d. 2011) October 19 Rubens de Falco, Brazilian actor (d. 2008) John le Carré, English novelist (d. 2020)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/14/john-le-carre-obituary John le Carré obituary Homberger Eric The Guardian 14 December 2020 14 December 2020 14 December 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201214022605/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/14/john-le-carre-obituary live Manolo Escobar, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2013) October 20 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995) October 21 – Shammi Kapoor, Indian film actor, director (d. 2011) October 23 – Diana Dors, English actress (d. 1984) October 25 Klaus Hasselmann, German oceanographer, climate modeller and Nobel Prize laureate Jimmy McIlroy, Northern Irish football player and manager (d. 2018) October 27 – Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian feminist (d. 2021)Nawal El Saadawi obituary https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/22/nawal-el-saadawi-obituary The Guardian 23 March 2021 en 22 March 2021 October 28 – Analía Gadé, Argentine actress (d. 2019) October 31 Sergio Obeso Rivera, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2019)El Diario de Morelos Cuernavaca August 11, 2019 August 11, 2019 Falleció el Arzobispo Emérito, Sergio Obeso Rivera es Archbishop Emeritus, Sergio Obeso Rivera passes away https://www.diariodemorelos.com/noticias/falleci-el-arzobispo-em-rito-sergio-obeso-rivera Dan Rather, American television news reporter (CBS Evening News) November thumb|100px|Mwai Kibaki thumb|100px|Adolfo Pérez Esquivel November 1 – Shunsuke Kikuchi, Japanese composer (d. 2021) November 2 – Phil Woods, American saxophonist (d. 2015) November 3 Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association bishop (d. 2007) Monica Vitti, Italian actress (d. 2022) November 5 – Ike Turner, American singer, songwriter (d. 2007) November 6 Peter Collins, British racing driver (d. 1958) Mike Nichols, German-American television actor, writer and director (d. 2014)Mike Nichols – obituary https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11243432/Mike-Nichols-obituary.html November 21, 2014 The Daily Telegraph November 20, 2014 November 12 – Majida Boulila, Tunisian militant (d. 1952) November 15 Mwai Kibaki, 3rd President of Kenya (d. 2022) Pascal Lissouba, President of the Republic of Congo (d. 2020) November 21 – Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer (d. 2003)James Murdoch Australia's Contemporary Composers https://books.google.com/books?id=sTqzAAAAIAAJ 1972 Macmillan 978-0-333-13913-4 205 November 26 – Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize November 28 – Tomi Ungerer, French artist, illustrator and writer (d. 2019)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/28/tomi-ungerer-obituary Tomi Ungerer obituary 28 February 2019 Joanna Carey The Guardian 13 July 2024 November 29 – Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor (d. 1997) December thumb|100px|Rita Moreno December 1 Rajko Kuzmanović, 7th President of Republika Srpska George Maxwell Richards, President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2018) Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar, Bangladeshi barrister and politician (d. 2026) December 2 – Wynton Kelly, Jamaican-American jazz pianist, composer (d. 1971) December 3 – Elizabeth Ramsey, Filipina singer and actress (d. 2015) December 5 – Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni, Indian Navy admiral (d. 2018) December 6 – Aurora Cornu, Romanian writer and actress (d. 2021) December 7 – Carmela Rey, Mexican singer, actress (d. 2018) December 9 Luigi Ornaghi, Italian actor and farmer (d. 2006) Ladislav Smoljak, Czech film, theater director, actor and screenwriter (d. 2010) December 11 – Rita Moreno, Puerto-Rican actress (West Side Story) December 13 – Ida Vos, Dutch Jewish author of books for children and adults (d. 2006)Kooman Elizabeth 2023-01-25 Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Gudema/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240308085609/https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/Gudema/ March 8, 2024 2025-12-29 resources.huygens.knaw.nl Dutch live December 15 – Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish writer (d. 2015) Gray Charlotte Klaus Rifbjerg Greenwood Press New York 1986 9780313250989 3 December 20 – Abdullah H. Abdur-Razzaq, African-American activist and Muslim (d. 2014) December 21 Redha Malek, 8th Prime Minister of Algeria (d. 2017) Georgi Naydenov, Bulgarian footballer and manager (d. 1970) December 22 – Carlos Graça, 6th Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (d. 2013) December 24 Walter Abish, Austrian-born American writer (d. 2022)https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/books/walter-abish-dead.html Walter Abish, Daring Writer Who Pondered Germany, Dies at 90 Alan Cowell The New York Times May 31, 2022 NYTimes.com Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer (d. 2008) December 26 – Roger Piantoni, French footballer (d. 2018) December 27 John Charles, Welsh international footballer (d. 2004) Scotty Moore, American guitarist (d. 2016) Lê Khả Phiêu, Vietnamese politician (d. 2020) December 30 Charles Bassett, American electrical engineer, astronaut (d. 1966) Skeeter Davis, American singer (d. 2004) Deaths January thumb|110px|Louise, Princess Royal thumb|110px|Anna Pavlova thumb|110px|Otto Wallach thumb|110px|F. 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Murnau thumb|110px|Joe Masseria January 3 – Joseph Joffre, French World War I general (b. 1852) January 4 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 10 – 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) January 23 Anna Pavlova, Soviet ballerina (b. 1881)Serge Lifar The Three Graces: Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, Olga Spessivtzeva: The Legends and the Truth https://books.google.com/books?id=41w7AAAAMAAJ 1959 Cassell 111 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) January 28 – Bernardo Soto Alfaro, 14th President of Costa Rica (b. 1854) January 29 – Henri Mathias Berthelot, French general (b. 1861) February February 1 – Prince Emmanuel, Duke of Vendome (b. 1872) February 9 – Mammad Hasan Hajinski, last Prime Minister of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (b.1875) February 11 – Sir Charles Parsons, British inventor (b. 1854) February 13 – Martin von Feuerstein, German painter (b. 1865) 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) February 23 Eduard von Capelle, German admiral (b. 1855) Dame Nellie Melba, Australian soprano (b. 1861)Lady Gregory Lady Gregory's Journals https://books.google.com/books?id=iT0fAQAAIAAJ 1978 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-520067-6 704 February 24 – Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (b. 1852) February 26 – Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847) February 27 – Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (b. 1906) February 28 – Thomas S. Rodgers, American admiral (b. 1858) March 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 16 – Sir Charles Eliot, British diplomat (b. 1862) 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 22 – James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer, politician (b. 1851) March 23 – Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary (b. 1907) March 24 – Robert Edeson, American actor (b. 1868) March 25 – Ida B. Wells, African-American anti-lynching crusader (b. 1862) March 27 – Arnold Bennett, British novelist (b. 1867)Arnold Bennett Letters of Arnold Bennett https://books.google.com/books?id=sWlaAAAAMAAJ 1966 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-212207-0 618 April April 4 – André Michelin, French industrialist and originator of Michelin Guides (born 1854)((Chase's Editors)) Contemporary Books Chase's Calendar of Events 2003 https://books.google.com/books?id=1NnUNBh6jIAC September 2002 McGraw-Hill 978-0-07-139098-9 55 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)Kahlil Gibran Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Kahlil Gibran (Illustrated) https://books.google.com/books?id=WAMmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT12 1 June 2017 Delphi Classics 978-1-78656-214-2 12 April 15 Joe Masseria, Italian-born American gangster (b. 1886)David Critchley https://books.google.com/books?id=uX29UdJJ3qYC The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891-1931 Routledge New York City 2008 978-0-415-99030-1 156, 155–57 Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa (b. 1854) Jacob Hägg, Swedish admiral and painter (b. 1839) April 16 – Rachel Bluwstein, Israeli poet (b. 1890)Rahel Bluwstein October 29, 1890–April 16, 1931 April 20 – Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, Scottish landowner, Titanic survivor (b. 1862) Geller Judith Titanic: women and children first Patrick Stephens Sparkford 1998 9781852605940 22 April 26 – George Herbert Mead, American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist (b. 1863)George Herbert Mead Symbolic Interactionism, Social Behaviorism, Pragmatism Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Herbert-Mead 2025-02-18 www.britannica.com en April 27 – Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1869)The New International Year Book Dodd, Mead and Company 1932 533 April 30 – Sammy Woods, English cricketer (b. 1867) May thumb|110px|Patriarch Damian I of Jerusalem thumb|110px|Hamaguchi Osachi May 2 – George Fisher Baker, American financier, philanthropist (b. 1840) May 9 – Albert A. Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) May 14 – David Belasco, American Broadway impresario, theater owner and playwright (b. 1853) May 19 – Ralph Barton, American artist (b. 1891)A Case of Melancholia May 26 – Anna Sandström, Swedish social reformer (b. 1854) June 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 13 Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent, British businessman (b. 1850) Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1853) June 21 – Pio del Pilar, Filipino activist (b. 1860) June 22 – Armand Fallières, 9th President of France (b. 1841) July July 2 – Peter Kürten, German serial killer (executed) (b. 1883) July 4 Buddie Petit, American jazz musician Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian general, Marshal of Italy (b. 1869) July 9 – T. Adelaide Goodno, American social reformer (b. 1858) July 11 – William Jasper Spillman, American economist (b. 1863) July 12 – Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1866) August August 6 – Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1903) August 11 – Linda Loredo, Mexican-American actress and dancer (b. 1907) August 14 – Patriarch Damian I of Jerusalem (b. 1848) August 15 – Nigar Shikhlinskaya, Azerbaijani World War I nurse (b. 1878) August 22 – Joseph Tabrar, British songwriter (b. 1857) August 26 Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856)John Stokes Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations https://books.google.com/books?id=dU-QtGTNJNcC&pg=PA87 14 March 1996 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-47537-2 87 Hamaguchi Osachi, Japanese politician, 27th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1870) August 27 – Francis Marion Smith, American businessman (b. 1846) September thumb|110px|Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria thumb|110px|Omar al-Mukhtar 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 9 – Lujo Brentano, German economist (b. 1844) September 10 – Salvatore Maranzano, Italian mobster (b. 1886) September 12 Francis J. Higginson, United States Navy admiral (b. 1843) Joseph Le Brix, French aviator, naval officer (b. 1899) September 13 – Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (b. 1866) September 14 – Tom Roberts, English-born Australian artist (b. 1856) September 16 – Omar al-Mukhtar, Libyan resistance leader (b. 1858) September 17 Marcello Amero D'Aste, Italian admiral, politician (b. 1853) Marvin Hart, American world heavyweight boxing champion (b. 1876) September 18 – Geli Raubal, Austrian niece of Adolf Hitler (suicide; b. 1908) September 19 – David Starr Jordan, American ichthyologist, educator, eugenicist, and peace activist (b. 1851)https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=HT19310919.2.20 Dr. David Starr Jordan Dies; Family With Educator As Passes Away: Fifth Attack Ends an Illness of Two Years Healdsburg Tribune 1 269 September 19, 1931 California Digital Newspaper Collection June 1, 2018 July 1, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180701055032/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=HT19310919.2.20 live September 29 – Sir William Orpen, Irish artist (b. 1878) October thumb|110px|Thomas Edison October 2 – Sir Thomas Lipton, Scottish retailer and yachtsman (b. 1848) October 3 – Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (b. 1865) October 7 – Daniel Chester French, American sculptor (b. 1850) October 8 – John Monash, Australian general (b. 1865)Perry Roland Monash: The Outsider Who Won A War North Sydney, New South Wales Random House 2007 2004 978-1-74166-847-6 , pp. 514–516–. October 13 – Ernst Didring, Swedish writer (b. 1868) October 18 – Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) Biographical Memoirs https://books.google.com/books?id=mEErAAAAYAAJ 1937 National Academy of Sciences 258 October 21 – Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist and author (b. 1862)Reinhard Urbach Arthur Schnitzler. https://books.google.com/books?id=BF9cAAAAMAAJ 1973 Frederick Ungar A Book 978-0-8044-2936-8 11 October 24 – Sir Murray Bisset, South African cricketer, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (b. 1876) November November 4 – Buddy Bolden, American musician (b. 1877) November 6 – Jack Chesbro, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1874) November 10 – Charlotte Scott, English mathematician (b. 1858)Patricia Clark Kenschaft Charlotte Angas Scott Grinstein Louise S. Campbell Paul J. Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook New York Greenwood Press 1987 978-0-3132-4849-8 193 November 11 – Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840) November 13 – Ivan Fichev, Bulgarian general, minister of defense, military historian, and academician (b. 1860) November 17 – Hara Prasad Shastri, Indian academic and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1853) November 21 – Bruno von Mudra, German general (b. 1851) November 27 – Robert Ames, American actor (b. 1889) December December 2 – Vincent d'Indy, French composer (b. 1851) December 5 – Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)Masters Edgar Lee 1935 Vachel Lindsay : A Poet in America 361 Biblo & Tannen Publishers 978-0819602398 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 24 – Carlo Fornasini, micropalaeontologist (b. 1854) December 26 – Melvil Dewey, American librarian, inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Second Edition - Volume II Miriam Drake Taylor & Francis 2003 848 December 27 – José Figueroa Alcorta, Argentine politician, 16th President of Argentina (b. 1860) Nobel Prizes right|100px 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 External links The 1930s Timeline: 1931 – from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century by Henry Hartshorne