Editing 1931 (section)

==Deaths==

===January ===
[[File:1901-princess-royal-louise.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Louise, Princess Royal]]]]
[[File:Anna Pavlova as the Dying Swan.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Anna Pavlova]]]]
[[File:Otto Wallach 1880s.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Otto Wallach]]]]
[[File:Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.jpg|thumb|110px|[[F. W. Murnau]]]]
[[File:Giuseppe „Joe“ Masseria.jpg|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 Fame]]r (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]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Serge Lifar|title=The Three Graces: Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, Olga Spessivtzeva: The Legends and the Truth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=41w7AAAAMAAJ|year=1959|publisher=Cassell|page=111}}</ref>
** [[Ernst Seidler von Feuchtenegg]], former Minister-President of Austria (b. [[1862]])
* [[January 24]] – [[James Percy FitzPatrick|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]] &ndash; [[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]] – [[Charles Algernon Parsons|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]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Lady Gregory|title=Lady Gregory's Journals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iT0fAQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-520067-6|page=704}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] – [[Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg]] (b. [[1852]])
* [[February 26]] – [[Otto Wallach]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1847]])
* [[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]] – [[Charles Eliot (diplomat)|Sir Charles Eliot]], British diplomat (b. [[1862]])
* [[March 20]]
** [[Alfred Giles (explorer)|Alfred Giles]], Australian explorer (b. [[1846]])
** [[Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876)|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 hero (b. [[1907]])
* [[March 24]] – [[Robert Edeson]], American actor (b. [[1868]])
* [[March 25]] – [[Ida B. Wells]], [[African-American]] [[lynching|anti-lynching]] crusader (b. [[1862]])
* [[March 27]] – [[Arnold Bennett]], British novelist (b. [[1867]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Arnold Bennett|title=Letters of Arnold Bennett|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sWlaAAAAMAAJ|year=1966|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-212207-0|page=618}}</ref>

===April ===
* [[April 4]] – [[André Michelin]], French industrialist and originator of [[Michelin Guide]]s (born [[1854]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=((Chase's Editors))|author2=Contemporary Books|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1NnUNBh6jIAC|date=September 2002|publisher=McGraw-Hill|isbn=978-0-07-139098-9|page=55}}</ref>
* [[April 8]] – [[Erik Axel Karlfeldt]], Swedish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|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]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Kahlil Gibran|title=Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Kahlil Gibran (Illustrated)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WAMmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT12|date=1 June 2017|publisher=Delphi Classics|isbn=978-1-78656-214-2|pages=12}}</ref>
* [[April 15]]
** [[Joe Masseria]], Italian-born American gangster (b. [[1886]])<ref>{{cite book|first=David|last=Critchley|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uX29UdJJ3qYC|title=The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891-1931|publisher=[[Routledge]]|location=New York City|date=2008|isbn=978-0-415-99030-1|pages=156, 155–57}}</ref>
** [[Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa]] (b. [[1854]])
** [[Jacob Hägg]], Swedish admiral and painter (b. [[1839]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Rachel Bluwstein]], Israeli poet (b. [[1890]])<ref>[https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/rahel-bluwstein Rahel Bluwstein October 29, 1890–April 16, 1931]</ref>
* [[April 20]] – Sir [[Cosmo Duff-Gordon]], Scottish landowner, ''[[RMS Titanic|Titanic]]'' survivor (b. [[1862]])<ref>{{cite book | last = Geller | first = Judith | title = Titanic: women and children first | publisher = Patrick Stephens | location = Sparkford | year = 1998 | isbn = 9781852605940 | page=22}}</ref>
* [[April 26]] – [[George Herbert Mead]], American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist (b. [[1863]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=George Herbert Mead {{!}} Symbolic Interactionism, Social Behaviorism, Pragmatism {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Herbert-Mead |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 27]] – [[Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein]] (b. [[1869]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The New International Year Book|publisher=Dodd, Mead and Company|year=1932|page=533}}</ref>
* [[April 30]] – [[Sammy Woods]], English cricketer (b. [[1867]])

===May ===
[[File:Patriarch Damian of Jerusalem.jpg|thumb|110px|Patriarch [[Damian I of Jerusalem]]]]
[[File:Hamaguchi Osachi 1.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Hamaguchi Osachi]]]]
* [[May 2]] – [[George Fisher Baker]], American financier, philanthropist (b. [[1840]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Albert A. Michelson]], German-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|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]])<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1989/02/20/a-case-of-melancholia A Case of Melancholia]</ref>
* [[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 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]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Stokes|title=Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dU-QtGTNJNcC&pg=PA87|date=14 March 1996|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-47537-2|pages=87}}</ref>
** [[Hamaguchi Osachi]], Japanese politician, 27th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1870]])
* [[August 27]] – [[Francis Marion Smith]], American businessman (b. [[1846]])

===September===
[[File:Carl Pietzner - Erzherzog Leopold Salvator von %C3%96sterreich-Toskana, 1905 (LC-DIG-ggbain-06226).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria]]]]
[[File:Omar_Mukhtar_13.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Omar al-Mukhtar]]]]
* [[September 4]] – [[Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria]] (b. [[1863]])
* [[September 5]] – [[John Thomson (footballer, born 1909)|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]], [[Libya]]n 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]], German niece of  Adolf Hitler (suicide; b. [[1908]])
* [[September 19]] – [[David Starr Jordan]], American ichthyologist, educator, eugenicist, and peace activist (b. [[1851]])<ref>{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=HT19310919.2.20 |title=Dr. David Starr Jordan Dies; Family With Educator As Passes Away: Fifth Attack Ends an Illness of Two Years |newspaper=[[Healdsburg Tribune]] |page=1 |number=269 |date=September 19, 1931 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |via=[[California Digital Newspaper Collection]]|access-date=June 1, 2018 |archive-date=July 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701055032/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=HT19310919.2.20 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[September 29]] – [[William Orpen|Sir William Orpen]], Irish artist (b. [[1878]])

===October===
[[File:Thomas Edison.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Thomas Edison]]]]
* [[October 2]] – [[Thomas Lipton|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 13]] – [[Ernst Didring]], Swedish writer (b. [[1868]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Thomas Edison]], American inventor (b. [[1847]])<ref>{{cite book|author=National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)|title=Biographical Memoirs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mEErAAAAYAAJ|year=1937|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|page=258}}</ref>
* [[October 21]] – [[Arthur Schnitzler]], Austrian dramatist and author (b. [[1862]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Reinhard Urbach|title=Arthur Schnitzler.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BF9cAAAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Frederick Ungar A Book|isbn=978-0-8044-2936-8|page=11}}</ref>
* [[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 Fame]]r (b. [[1874]])
* [[November 10]] – [[Charlotte Scott]], English mathematician (b. 1858)<ref>{{cite book | first=Patricia | last=Clark Kenschaft | chapter=Charlotte Angas Scott | editor1-last=Grinstein | editor1-first=Louise S. | editor2-last=Campbell | editor2-first=Paul J. | title=Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook | place=New York | publisher=Greenwood Press | year=1987 | isbn=978-0-3132-4849-8 | page=193}}</ref>
* [[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 (actor)|Robert Ames]], American actor (b. [[1889]])

===December===
* [[December 2]] – [[Vincent d'Indy]], French composer (b. [[1851]])
* [[December 5]] – [[Vachel Lindsay]], American poet (b. [[1879]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Masters |first=Edgar Lee |year=1935 |title=Vachel Lindsay : A Poet in America |page=361|publisher=Biblo & Tannen Publishers |isbn=978-0819602398}}</ref>
* [[December 9]] – [[Antonio Salandra]], Italian statesman, 21st [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (b. [[1853]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Legs Diamond|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]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Second Edition - Volume II|author=Miriam Drake|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2003|page=848}}</ref>
* [[December 27]] – [[José Figueroa Alcorta]], Argentine politician, 16th [[President of Argentina]] (b. [[1860]])