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This article provides a list of famous people who died in 1931 .
- See also: Category: Deceased in 1931
January
- January 1 - Martinus Beyerink (79) - Dutch microbiologist and botanist , corresponding member , foreign member and honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .
- January 3 - Joseph Joffre (78) - French military leader, Marshal of France.
- January 3 - Lev Krol (59) - leader of the Cadet Party, Masonic activist in Yekaterinburg, after the revolution, a prominent civic activist of the White movement.
- January 8 - David Gordon - doctor, owner of the Taganrog hydropathic center.
- January 11 - Marianna Cherkasskaya (54) - opera singer.
- January 12 - Giovanni Boldini (88) - Italian painter , one of the best portrait painters of the late XIX - early XX centuries .
- January 21 - Felix Blumenfeld (67) - Russian pianist, composer and music teacher.
- January 23 - Anna Pavlova (49) - Russian ballet dancer, one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century ; pneumonia , pleurisy .
- January 28 - Konstantin Eremeev (57) - Russian revolutionary, Soviet military leader, journalist.
February
- February 4 - Vsevolod Ignatovsky (49) - Belarusian and Soviet public and political figure, scientist, historian.
- February 9 - Mamed-Hasan Haji (55) - Azerbaijani statesman and politician.
- February 16 - Wilhelm von Glöden (74) - German photographer who worked in Italy , one of the largest masters of the image of male nudity.
- February 18 - Nikolai Kareev (80) - Russian historian, sociologist and philosopher.
- February 25 - Alexander Andogsky (54) - Russian general, participant in the Russo-Japanese and World War I.
March
- March 20 - German Müller (54) - German politician, member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany , Chancellor of Germany in 1920 and 1928 - 1930 .
- March 29 - Alexander Zalkind - doctor, public figure.
- March 30 - Elsa Grundman (39) - Russian revolutionary and Soviet party activist, employee of the Cheka-GPU.
April
- April 4 - Andre Michelin (78) - French car dealer, one of the Michelin co-founders.
- April 6 - William Wiley (79) - English marine painter.
- April 8 - Yuri Gravitsky (47) - Lieutenant General, participant in the Russian-Japanese and World War I.
- April 9 - Alexander Adlerberg (81) - Russian military leader, general.
- April 13 - Ivan Sturua (60) - Georgian revolutionary, people's commissar of agriculture of the Georgian SSR.
- April 16 - Rachel Bluwstein - Jewish poetess. I wrote in Hebrew.
- April 24 - David Kldiashvili (68) - Georgian writer.
- April 25 - Abram Mincin (33) - French artist, a native of Russia.
- April 29 - Euthymius Karsky (70) - Russian philologist-Slavic, paleographer and ethnographer, academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
- April 30 - Vladimir Pokrovsky (60) - Russian architect, urban planner, restorer.
May
- May 13 - Ivan Kurovets (68) - West Ukrainian social and political activist.
- May 14 - Victor Dyk (53) - a well-known Czech prose writer, playwright, publicist, as well as a politician and lawyer.
- May 15 - Leo Petrazhitsky (64) - Russian and Polish scientist, lawyer, sociologist, philosopher, deputy of the first State Duma.
- May 18 - Alexander Sheremetev (72) - Russian philanthropist and amateur musician from the Sheremetev family.
- May 27 - Vladimir Olderogge (57) - Russian and Soviet military leader. Commander of the Eastern Front of the Red Army.
June
- June 1 - Vladislav Buzeskul (73) - Russian antique historian, historiographer.
- June 4 - Hussein bin Ali (b. Circa 1854 ) - 1st king of Hijaz in 1916 - 1924 from the Hashemite dynasty.
- June 13 - Artyomiy Artsikhovsky (54) - Russian Soviet botanist, plant physiologist, professor.
- June 14 - Vyacheslav Lipinsky (49) - Ukrainian politician, historian, publicist.
- June 22 - Arman Fallier (89) - French statesman, President of France ( Third Republic , 1906 - 1913 ).
- June 29 - Yakov Vilner (31) - Soviet, Ukrainian chess player, USSR master of sports.
July
- July 19 - Morris Sigman is an American union leader.
- July 27 - Auguste Henri Forel (82) - a famous Swiss neurologist , psychiatrist , entomologist and public figure.
August
- August 1 - Khristina Alchevskaya (49) - Ukrainian poet, prose writer, playwright, literary critic, publicist, translator and teacher.
- August 15 - Nigar Shikhlinskaya (60) - the first Azerbaijani sister of mercy, chairman of the Hospital of the Ladies Committee of the Artillery Officer School at the Red Cross in the First World War.
- August 11 - Nikolai Yunakov - Russian military historian, lieutenant general.
- August 17 - Boris Vladimirtsov (47) - Russian orientalist, Mongolian.
- August 29 - Tadeusz Golowko (41) - Polish politician, statesman, publisher, publicist, one of the figures of the prometheism movement.
- August 31 - Hall Kane (78) - English novelist and playwright.
September
- September 1 - Nachum Barnet (76) - Australian architect.
- September 3 - Franz Schalk (68) - Austrian conductor , teacher.
- September 7 - Ignatius Klopotovsky (65) - blessed of the Roman Catholic Church.
- September 19 - Sergey Svetoslavsky (73) - Ukrainian landscape painter and cartoonist.
- September 23 - Nikolai Krasnoseltsev (85) - Russian church historian and archaeologist; Professor of Novorossiysk University.
- September 29 - William Orpen (52) - English and Irish artist, one of the largest representatives of Impressionism in the British Isles.
October
- October 2 - Shakarim Kudaiberdiev (73) - Kazakh poet, writer, translator, composer, historian and philosopher.
- October 3 - Karl Nielsen (66) - Danish composer, violinist, conductor and music teacher, is considered the founder of the modern Danish composer school.
- October 13 - Mikhail Posnov - Russian biblical scholar, historian of the Christian Church.
- October 18 - Thomas Edison (84) - world famous American inventor and entrepreneur.
- October 21 - Arthur Schnitzler (69) - Austrian writer.
- October 24 - Tsomak Gadiev - Ossetian writer, fighter for Soviet power.
- October 31 - Vladimir Berenshtam (70) - Russian lawyer, publicist.
November
- November 11 - Maria Chukovskaya (11) - the youngest daughter of Korney Chukovsky and the heroine of his poems and stories for children; tuberculosis .
- November 27 - David Bruce (76) - English bacteriologist.
December
- December 3 - Gustav Mangulis (52) - Russian, Soviet and Latvian military leader, colonel of RIA and the Latvian army.
- December 8 - Hadi Taktash (30) - Tatar poet, one of the founders of Tatar Soviet poetry.
- December 9 - Joseph-Mikhail Vitoshinsky-Dobrovolya (73) - Austro-Hungarian and Ukrainian military leader, major general of the Austro-Hungarian army and coroner general of the Ukrainian Galician army.
- December 12 - Muhammad-aga Shakhtakhtinsky (85) - a prominent Azerbaijani publicist, enlightener, orientalist, linguist, teacher and public figure.
- December 13 - Gustave Lebon (90) - the famous French psychologist , sociologist , anthropologist and historian , the founder of social psychology .
- December 14 - Kazbek Borukaev (41) - Soviet state and party leader, executive secretary of the Regional Committee of the CPSU (b) of the North Ossetian Autonomous Region (1927-1928).
- December 22 - Lydia Ceraskaya (76) - Russian (Soviet) astronomer.
- December 26 - Melville Dewey (80) - American librarian, founder of the world's first specialized educational institution for the training of librarians - Columbia School of Librarianship.
- December 31 - Jerome Yasinsky (81) - Russian writer, journalist, poet, literary critic, translator, playwright, publisher and memoirist.
See also
- The list of the dead in 1930
- List of the dead in 1932