Famous People Who Died in 1931

Bhagat Singh

Mar 23 Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter, hanged at 23

Ida B. Wells

Mar 25 Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, American journalist and civil rights activist, dies at 68

Mar 27 Arnold Bennett, English novelist (Anna of the Five Towns), dies at 63
Mar 28 Ban Johnson, American baseball executive, founder and President of the American League, dies after a long illness at 67
Mar 31 Knute Rockne, American College Football Hall of Fame receiver, coach, (Notre Dame, 13 National titles), dies in a plane crash at 43
Mar 31 Hermann Kutter, Swiss Protestant theologian (founder of Christian Socialism in Switzerland), dies at 67

André Michelin

Apr 4 Andre Michelin, French industrialist, tire manufacturer and publisher of the Michelin Guide, dies of respiratory failure at 78

Apr 4 George Whitefield Chadwick, composer, dies at 76
Apr 6 Giuseppi Radiciotti, composer, dies at 73

Apr 8 Eric Axel Karlfeldt, poet, dies
Apr 9 Paul Antonin Vidal, composer, dies at 67
Apr 10 Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)
Apr 16 Rachel Bluwstein, Hebrew poet, dies of tuberculosis at 40
Apr 25 Bert Hopkins, Australian cricketer (20 Tests for Aust, 509 runs), dies at 56
Apr 30 Sammy Woods, Australian cricketer (3 Tests for Australia, 3 for England), dies at 64
May 3 Frank Hoyt Losey, composer, dies at 59
May 3 Otto Winter-Hjelm, Norwegian musician and composer, dies at 93
May 5 Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (b. 1899)
May 9 A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, American physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78
May 12 Eugene Ysaye, Belgian composer and violinist, dies at 72
May 13 Josif Marinković, Serbian composer, dies at 79
May 14 David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)
May 14 Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter, dies at 44
May 17 Johan [Eliza J] de Master, art critic/writer, dies
May 17 Timothy Cole, American wood engraver, dies at about 71
May 31 Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, French Canadian cardinal, archbishop of Quebec (b. 1866)
Jun 4 Ibn Ali Hussein, King of Hejaz, dies
Jun 9 Henrique Oswald, Brazilian composer, dies at 79
Jun 13 Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
Jun 22 Armand Fallières, French president (1906-13), dies at 89
Jun 29 Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850)

Alice Mary Robertson

Jul 1 Alice Mary Robertson, American educator, social worker and 2nd woman in US Congress, dies at 77

Jul 2 Stephen Babcock, American agricultural chemist (Babcock test and father of scientific dairying), dies at 87
Jul 4 Emanuele F duke of Aosta, Italian WW I-general/fascist, dies at 62

Jul 4 Hussein ibn-Ali, sjarif Mecca/king/kalief of Hedzjaz (1917-24), dies
Jul 7 Johannes "Kodgee" Kotze, South African cricketer (South Africa 1902-07), dies at 51
Jul 15 Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian mathematician 9Poisson distribution) and economist (b. 1868)
Jul 16 Charles Studd, English cricket all-rounder (5 Tests; Middlesex) and missionary (Cambridge Seven), dies from untreated gallstones at 70
Jul 16 Alice Pike Barney, American painter, dies at 74
Jul 18 Oskar Minkowski, German Biologist (pancreas and diabetes), dies at 73
Jul 24 Willem Treub, Dutch economist and politician, dies at 75
Jul 27 Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848)
Aug 2 Kinue Hitomi, Japanese athlete (World record women's 100m, 200m, long jump, triple jump; Olympic silver 800m 1928), dies from pneumonia at 24

Daniel Williams

Aug 4 Daniel Williams, American heart surgeon who performed the 1st open heart surgery, dies at 73

Aug 5 Ullrich Haupt, Prussian actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion), accidentally shot at 43
Aug 6 Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, American cornetist, one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s (In Mist), dies at 29
Aug 19 Aristides Agramonte y Simoni, Cuban-American Physician, Pathologist and Bacteriologist (yellow fever), dies at 63
Aug 20 Waldemar von Baussnern, composer, dies at 64
Aug 27 Willem Hubert Nolens, Dutch priest and ambassador to Vatican, dies at 70
Aug 27 Frank Harris, Irish-American journalist and writer (My Life & Loves), dies at 75
Aug 27 Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846)
Aug 28 Hugh Mahon, Irish-born Australian politician, dies at 74
Aug 29 David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder, dies at 64
Aug 31 Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar, dies
Sep 5 John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
Sep 9 Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist dies at 86
Sep 10 Alfonso Rendano, Italian composer, dies at 78
Sep 10 Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869)
Sep 11 Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American organized crime figure, dies at 63

Sep 13 Lili Elbe [born Einar Wegener], Danish transgender woman, former painter, and 1st identifiable recipient of sex reassignment surgery (autobiography: Man into Woman), dies from complications involving a uterus transplant at 48

Painter and 1st Recipient of Gender-Reassignment Surgery Lili Elbe — Painter and 1st Recipient of Gender-Reassignment Surgery
Lili Elbe

Sep 18 Hazrat Babajan, a Baloch Muslim saint (b. c. 1806)
Sep 20 Sam Morris, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1884), dies
Sep 28 Sylvain Dupuis, Belgian conductor, composer, and music educator (Le Chant de la Création), dies at 74
Oct 2 Thomas Lipton, Scottish yachtsman (5-time America's Cup challenger) and tea merchant (Lipton Tea), dies at 81

Oct 2 George Bradley, American baseball pitcher (first no-hitter in MLB history 1876; NL ERA leader 1876), dies at 79
Oct 3 Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist and composer (Det Uudslukkelige), dies of a heart attack at 66
Oct 7 Daniel Chester French, American sculptor (Minute Man), dies at 81
Oct 7 Charles Ricketts, British artist and illustrator, dies at 65
Oct 8 Sir John Monash, Australian soldier general (b. 1865)
Oct 10 Carl von Bach, German mechanical engineer, dies at 84
Oct 13 Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868)
Oct 17 Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist, dies at 47

Thomas Edison

Oct 18 Thomas Edison, American inventor (lightbulb, phonograph, motion picture camera), dies at 84

Oct 20 Emánuel Moór, Hungarian composer, pianist, and inventor of musical instruments, dies at 68
Oct 21 A Schnitzler, writer, dies at 69
Oct 24 Murray Bisset, South African cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1899 & 1910), dies at 55
Oct 26 Charles Comiskey, American baseball player, team owner and manager (Chicago White Sox), dies at 72
Oct 29 Luciano Gallet, Brazilian composer, dies at 38
Nov 2 Arthur James Cook, British trade union leader (coal miners), dies of cancer at 47
Nov 2 Henry Musgrove, Australian cricket batsman (1 Test 1885), dies at 72
Nov 3 Rudolf Wilhelm Canne, Fries playwright (Peaske), dies at 60
Nov 4 Buddy Bolden, African-American jazz musician, dies
Nov 6 Jack Chesbro, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (NY Highlanders - won 41 games 1904), dies of heart attack at 57
Nov 11 Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
Nov 15 C. A. J. van Dishoeck, Dutch publisher, dies at 68
Nov 17 Georgi Atanasov, Bulgarian composer (Gergana), dies at 50
Nov 17 John Paulus Lotsy, Dutch botanist and geneticist (Resumptio Genetics), dies at 64
Nov 17 Hara Prasad Shastri, Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali literature, dies at 77
Nov 19 Frederic Cliffe, English composer, dies at 74
Nov 19 Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897)
Nov 23 Evert Cornelis, Dutch conductor and pianist, dies at 46
Nov 27 Lya De Putti [Amália Putti], Hungarian silent film actress, known for portraying vamp characters, dies at 34
Nov 30 John Hyatt Brewer, American composer, dies at 75
Nov 30 Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, French composer, dies at 46
Dec 2 Vincent d'Indy, French composer and teacher, dies at 80
Dec 5 Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
Dec 10 Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69
Dec 13 Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (b. 1840)
Dec 16 Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist and bishop of Bruges, dies at 82
Dec 18 Jack "Legs" Diamond, American gangster and bootlegger, murdered at 34
Dec 23 Wilson Bentley, American scientist (b. 1865)
Dec 26 Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator (created Dewey Decimal System for libraries), dies at 80
Dec 27 Peter C. Lutkin, composer, dies at 73
Dec 27 Walter Courvoisier, composer, dies at 56
Dec 30 Tyrone Power Sr., British actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton, Alexanders Ragtime Band)), dies at 62

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