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April 17 – Ernesto Rossi, racketeer (born 1903) [32] April 26 – George Herbert Mead, philosopher (born 1863) May 2 – George Fisher Baker, financier and philanthropist (born 1840) May 14 – David Belasco, Broadway impresario, theater owner and playwright (born 1853) June 2 – Joseph W. Farnham, screenwriter (born 1884)
A. Eeli Aalto; Stål Aanderaa; Arne Aas (actor) Atnafu Abate; Muztar Abbasi; Shuhrat Abbosov; François M. Abboud; Awatef Abdel Karim; Salah Abdel Sabour; Abdul Alim (folk singer)
Sam Cooke was born Samuel Cook in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1931 (he added the "e" to his last name in 1957 to signify a new start to his life). [11] [12] He was the fifth of eight children of Rev. Charles Cook, a Baptist minister in the Church of Christ (Holiness), and the former Annie Mae Carroll.
1931 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the ... Romanian-born Venezuelan economist, publicist and disc jockey (d. 2009)
James Edward Maceo West (born February 10, 1931) is an American inventor and acoustician. He holds over 250 foreign and U.S. patents for the production and design of microphones and techniques for creating polymer foil electrets .
Arnold Bennett, novelist (born 1867) Margaret McMillan, pioneer of nursery education (born 1860 in the United States) 16 April – St. George Littledale, traveller and big game hunter (born 1851) 30 April – Sammy Woods, cricketer (born 1867) 26 May – Kate Marsden, medical missionary (born 1859) 27 May – Agnata Butler, classical scholar ...
1931 – Japanese invasion of Manchuria, start of World War II in the Pacific. 1931 – The Whitney Museum of American Art opens to the public in New York City. 1931 - “The Star-Spangled Banner” becomes official U.S. national anthem; 1931 - Hoover vetoes Veteran Bonus; 1931 - Pearl Buck publishes The Good Earth making heroes of the Chinese ...
21 January – Isaac Isaacs becomes the first Australian-born Governor-General. 22 January – The Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration announces a 10% reduction in the basic wage, in addition to reductions made in accordance with the fall in the cost of living index, effective from 1 February.