1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1900s  1910s  1920s  – 1930s –  1940s  1950s  1960s
Years: 1928 1929 193019311932 1933 1934

Events change

 
Ferdinand Porsche holding a steering wheel

Births change

January change

 
Toshiki Kaifu
 
Johannes Rau
 
Sam Cooke

February change

 
Iajuddin Ahmed
 
Boris Yeltsin

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Ian Holm
 
George Jones
 
Anita Ekberg

October change

 
John le Carré
 
Rubens de Falco
 
Mickey Mantle

November change

 
Monica Vitti
 
Mwai Kibaki

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Deaths change

 
Anna Pavlova

Nobel Prizes change

Movies released change

 
Norma Shearer

References change

  1. BBC History, July 2011, p12.
  2. "Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site". Aviation: From Sand Dunes To Sonic Booms. National Park Service. Retrieved 22 December 2016.