1931 deaths

American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)

Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter (1883–1931)

American physicist (1852–1931)

Swedish poet (1864–1931)

French psychologist (1841-1931)

Russian ballet dancer (1881–1931)

Austrian writer (1862–1931)

German chemist (1847–1931)

French general (1852–1931)

9th president of France (1841–1931)

Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer (1883–1931)

Leader of the Senussi resistance against the Italian fascist occupation (1858–1931)

Swedish clergyman and archbishop (1866–1931)

English writer (1867–1931)

Indian revolutionary (1907–1931)

Japanese bacteriologist, immunologist

German politician (1876–1931)

German film director (1888–1931)

Finnish painter (1865-1931)

Danish painter and transgender woman (1882–1931)

Danish composer

Czech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer (1877-1931)

American journalist and civil rights activist (1862–1931)

American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist

Sharif and Emir of Mecca, then King of Hejaz and Sharifian Caliph (1854–1931)

inventor of the steam turbine (1854-1931)

Indian lawyer and politician (1861–1931)

Dutch microbiologist (1851–1931)

Prime Minister of Italy (1853-1931)

American librarian (1851–1931)

Australian opera singer (1861–1931)

niece of Adolf Hitler (1908–1931)

Catalan author and painter; (1861-1931)

Belgian violinist, composer and conductor

American ichthyologist and educator (1851-1931)

French composer and teacher

American jazz musician (1903-1931)

Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (1848-1931)

third child and eldest daughter of Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Alexandra of Denmark

Italian painter (1842-1931)

Italian general (1869–1931)

German classical philologist (1848-1931)

Turkish journalist (1872–1931)

Japanese politician (1870-1931)

Indian activist and socialist and revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer (1906–1931)

Spanish princess; eldest daughter of Queen Isabella II and Francis, Duke of Cádiz

British tea merchant and yacht racer (1848-1931)

Prime Minister of Italy (1855-1931)

British tennis player of Greek origin, resident in Egypt (1872-1931)

German photographer (1856-1931)

Australian-British physician, pathologist and microbiologist (1855–1931)

American cornetist and jazz pioneer (1877–1931)

Danish philosopher and theologian (1843–1931)

Chinese poet (1897-1931)

Irish artist (1878–1931)

American sculptor (1850–1931)

president of Argentina (1860-1931)

German noble (1852-1931); Grand Duke from 1900 until 1918

German serial killer (1883-1931)

German botanist (1871-1931)