Notable Deaths - 1931
1931 Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851) |
Jan 1 |
Hjalmar Bergman, Herr von Hancken |
Jan 3 |
Joseph J C Joffre, French marshal, dies at 78 |
Jan 3 |
Joseph Joffre, Hearst-Pathé News, No. 8 |
Jan 4 |
Art Acord, western actor (Set Free, Spurs & Saddles), dies at 40 |
Jan 4 |
Art Acord, Lazy Lightning |
Jan 6 |
Stanley Cooke, The Road to Fortune |
Jan 6 |
Ethel Grey Terry, The Penalty |
Jan 7 |
Henri Desfontaines, Jésus de Nazareth |
Jan 9 |
Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer], French writer (La fille perdue), dies |
Jan 9 |
Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896) |
Jan 9 |
Claude Anet, Love in the Afternoon |
Jan 11 |
Oscar Fetras, composer, dies at 76 |
Jan 11 |
James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852) |
Jan 11 |
Gertrud Arnold, Die Nibelungen: Siegfried |
Jan 12 |
Willy, Le friquet |
Jan 14 |
William Ernst Johnson, British mathematician, dies |
Jan 14 |
Edgar Adams, All Quiet on the Western Front |
Jan 18 |
Philip Hubbard, East Is East |
Jan 18 |
Gustaw Cybulski, Janko zwyciezca |
Jan 20 |
Margrethe Munthe, 16. December |
Jan 21 |
Felix Blumenfeld, composer, dies at 67 |
Jan 22 |
Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897) |
Jan 22 |
Alma Rubens, The Rejected Woman |
Jan 23 |
Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (Diaghilew, Dying Swan), dies |
Jan 23 |
Anna Pavlova, The Dumb Girl of Portici |
Jan 26 |
Graça Aranha, Vale do Canaã |
Jan 31 |
Béla Vágó, A szerencse fia |
Feb 2 |
Theodor Batthynyi, Hungarian contra-revolutionary, dies at 71 |
Feb 3 |
Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist, dies at 72 |
Feb 7 |
Ion Vidu, composer, dies at 67 |
Feb 7 |
Roushi, Slave Mother |
Feb 9 |
Vilhelm Thomsen, Klør Dame |
Feb 11 |
Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (steam turbine), dies at 76 |
Feb 11 |
Charles Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine, dies |
Feb 12 |
Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (b. 1855) |
Feb 12 |
Erwin Connelly, Sherlock Jr. |
Feb 15 |
Louis Mann, The Sins of the Children |
Feb 16 |
Juan Vert, Amor de hombre |
Feb 17 |
Wladyslaw Jaminski, Syn szatana |
Feb 18 |
Milan Šufflay, Croatian politician (b. 1879) |
Feb 18 |
Louis Wolheim, All Quiet on the Western Front |
Feb 18 |
Peter Elfelt, Kørsel med grønlandske hunde |
Feb 23 |
Nellie Melba, [Helen Mitchell], Australian soprano, dies |
Feb 23 |
Emilio Mesejo, Fotografias animadas |
Feb 23 |
Nellie Melba, Country Life |
Feb 26 |
Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies at 83 |
Feb 28 |
Ban Johnson, created (baseball's AL), dies after a long illness |
Mar 1 |
Alexander Ferenczy, Cagliostro - Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers |
Mar 1 |
Gilbert Dalleu, Un soir |
Mar 3 |
Otto Reutter, Frühere Verhältnisse |
Mar 4 |
Cornelius Kirschner, Das vierte Gebot |
Mar 5 |
Fr. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist activities (b. 1839) |
Mar 7 |
Akseli V Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter/illustrator, dies at 65 |
Mar 7 |
Theo van Doesburg, [Christian Kupper], painter/architect, dies at 47 |
Mar 7 |
Akseli Gallen-Kallela, |
Mar 7 |
Lupu Pick, Aus den Erinnerungen eines Frauenarztes - 2. Lüge und Wahrheit |
Mar 8 |
Clara Kathleen Rogers, composer, dies at 87 |
Mar 9 |
Ida B Wells-Barnett, famous black, dies in Chicago at 78 |
Mar 11 |
F.W. Murnau, German film director (b. 1888) |
Mar 11 |
F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu |
Mar 11 |
Adolf Klein, Phantom |
Mar 16 |
James Neill, The Cheat |
Mar 19 |
Ingeborg Larsen, Folkets Vilje |
Mar 20 |
Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876) |
Mar 20 |
Hermann Müller, Right to Happiness |
Mar 21 |
Erik Schmedes, Inferno |
Mar 22 |
Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67 |
Mar 23 |
Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev Indian freedom fighters |
Mar 24 |
Charles Clary, The Penalty |
Mar 24 |
Robert Edeson, The King of Kings |
Mar 27 |
Arnold Bennett, English novelist, dies aged 63 |
Mar 27 |
Arnold Bennett, The Promoter |
Mar 31 |
Knute Rockne, football player/coach, dies in a plane crash at 43 |
Mar 31 |
Knute Rockne, Various Shifts |
Apr 1 |
Macklyn Arbuckle, Janice Meredith |
Apr 4 |
George Whitefield Chadwick, composer, dies at 76 |
Apr 5 |
Marc Robbins, Their Act |
Apr 6 |
Giuseppi Radiciotti, composer, dies at 73 |
Apr 6 |
Hubert Druce, Life |
Apr 6 |
Mary Moore, David Garrick |
Apr 8 |
Eric Axel Karlfeldt, poet, dies |
Apr 9 |
Paul Antonin Vidal, composer, dies at 67 |
Apr 9 |
Alfred Hickman, The Enchanted Cottage |
Apr 9 |
Tom Santschi, The Abyss |
Apr 9 |
Gyula Stella, Stars of Eger |
Apr 10 |
Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883) |
Apr 10 |
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet |
Apr 10 |
Nealson Smith, The Son of the Sheik |
Apr 11 |
Will Evans, Building a Chicken House |
Apr 12 |
Arthur Hunter, Traffic in Souls |
Apr 12 |
Fausto Maria Martini, Satan's Rhapsody |
Apr 13 |
Bobby Dean, Barnum & Ringling, Inc. |
Apr 13 |
Maurice Abrahams, 21 |
Apr 14 |
Rufin Morozowicz, Tajemnica przystanku tramwajowego |
Apr 19 |
Mabel Fenton, How Molly Malone Made Good |
Apr 19 |
Jenõ Horváth, A riporterkirály |
Apr 20 |
Eustace Hale Ball, The City Fellow |
Apr 24 |
Davit Kldiashvili, Samanishvilis dedinatsvali |
Apr 25 |
A J Y (Bert) Hopkins, cricketer (20 Tests for Aust, 509 runs), dies |
Apr 28 |
Joseph Levigard, Grit Wins |
Apr 28 |
William W. Cohill, Life Without Soul |
Apr 30 |
Sammy Woods, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia, 3 for England), dies |
May 3 |
Frank Hoyt Losey, composer, dies at 59 |
May 3 |
Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer, dies at 93 |
May 5 |
Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (b. 1899) |
May 8 |
Bertha Lewis, The Mikado |
May 8 |
Hans Otto, Der Monte Christo von Prag |
May 9 |
A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, US physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78 |
May 12 |
Eugene Ysaye, composer, dies at 72 |
May 12 |
Eugene-Auguste Ysaye, composer, dies at 72 |
May 13 |
Josif Marinkovic, composer, dies at 79 |
May 14 |
David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853) |
May 14 |
Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (b. 1887) |
May 14 |
Viktor Dyk, The Pied Piper |
May 14 |
David Belasco, Laugh, Clown, Laugh |
May 15 |
Ida Brander, Rakkauden kaikkivalta - Amor Omnia |
May 16 |
Grant Clarke, Public Enemies |
May 17 |
Johan [Eliza J] de Master, art critic/writer, dies |
May 17 |
Timothy Cole, wood engraver, dies |
May 18 |
Billy Stone, King of Jazz |
May 21 |
Andrew Mack, The Ragged Earl |
May 26 |
Adele Windsor, True to the Navy |
May 29 |
Felix Hollaender, Jealousy |
May 31 |
Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, French Canadian cardinal, archbishop of Quebec (b. 1866) |
Jun 2 |
Joseph Farnham, The Cameraman |
Jun 3 |
Ben Swor Jr., The Carnation Kid |
Jun 4 |
Ibn Ali Hussein, King of Hejaz, dies |
Jun 6 |
Gloria Greer, Moonlight and Monkey Business |
Jun 7 |
Viktor Schwannecke, Moritz macht sein Glück |
Jun 9 |
Henrique Oswald, composer, dies at 79 |
Jun 13 |
Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851) |
Jun 13 |
Sydney Rosenfeld, Children of Destiny |
Jun 13 |
Santiago Rusiñol, El señor Esteve |
Jun 20 |
Rozsi T. Forrai, A szerencse fia |
Jun 21 |
Nellie Stewart, Nell Gwynne |
Jun 22 |
Armand Fallières, French president (b. 1841) |
Jun 22 |
Armand Fallières, Le voyage du président Fallières en Angleterre |
Jun 24 |
Aladár Kuncz, A fekete kolostor |
Jun 28 |
Edith Posca, Scherben |
Jun 29 |
Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet (b. 1850) |
Jun 29 |
Pol de Mont, De verrijzenis van Ons Heer |
Jul 2 |
Stephen Babcock, American Agricultural Chemist (Babcock test and father of scientific dairying), dies at 87 |
Jul 3 |
Brinsley Shaw, A Stranger in Camp |
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 Jacobus "Kodgee" Kotze, cricketer (South Africa 1902-07), dies |
Jul 7 |
Eugen Wiesner, Batalion |
Jul 9 |
Dick Hatton, He-Man's Country |
Jul 10 |
Tony Schumacher, Das Turm-Engele |
Jul 12 |
George Westmore, The Nut |
Jul 13 |
Tor Hedberg, Johan Ulfstjerna |
Jul 14 |
Pedro León, They Were Four |
Jul 15 |
Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist (b. 1868) |
Jul 16 |
Charles Studd, cricketer (5 Tests for England 1882-83), dies |
Jul 16 |
George S. Dougherty, The Line-Up at Police Headquarters |
Jul 18 |
Oskar Minkowski, German Biologist (pancreas and diabetes), dies at 73 |
Jul 21 |
Heidi Blåfield, Noidan kirot |
Jul 23 |
Ressel Orla, Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der Goldene See |
Jul 24 |
Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance, dies at 75 |
Jul 24 |
Dick Lee, The New Fire Chief |
Jul 26 |
Jalmari Lahdensuo, Pohjalaisia |
Jul 27 |
Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (b. 1848) |
Jul 27 |
Karel Fiala, Prach a broky |
Jul 28 |
E.J. Carroll, The Man from Kangaroo |
Aug 2 |
William 'Shorty' Blanche, Sally of the Sawdust |
Aug 4 |
Daniel Williams, American heart surgeon, dies at 73 |
Aug 5 |
Ullrich Haupt, actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion), dies at 43 |
Aug 5 |
Marie Hübnerová, Loupezník |
Aug 5 |
Ullrich Haupt, Morocco |
Aug 6 |
Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist (In Mist), dies at 29 |
Aug 6 |
Bix Beiderbecke, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
Aug 7 |
Ernest Shipman, The Grub Stake |
Aug 11 |
Linda Loredo, Come Clean |
Aug 12 |
Johan Kievit, Dik Trom weet raad |
Aug 13 |
Lester Lonergan, Seven Faces |
Aug 14 |
Janie Marèse, La Chienne |
Aug 14 |
Louis Chrispijn Jr., Ontrouw |
Aug 15 |
Ruth Fuller Golden, Pegeen |
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 22 |
Joseph Tabrar, Jean Stapleton |
Aug 27 |
Willem H Nolens, priest/2nd Chamber member, dies |
Aug 27 |
Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856) |
Aug 27 |
Francis Marion Smith, American borax magnate (b. 1846) |
Aug 27 |
Frank Harris, Cowboy |
Aug 28 |
Jane Blyler, Hey There |
Aug 29 |
David Abercrombie, Abercrombie & Fitch founder |
Aug 30 |
Emilie Sannom, La fanciulla dell'aria |
Aug 31 |
Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar, dies |
Aug 31 |
Hall Caine, The Manxman |
Sep 2 |
Charles Cherry, The Mummy and the Humming Bird |
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 9 |
Kate Phillips, The Sands of Time |
Sep 9 |
Henri Burguet, Incriminating Evidence |
Sep 9 |
Eugene Wiley Presbrey, Raffles |
Sep 10 |
Alfonso Randano, composer, dies at 78 |
Sep 10 |
Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1869) |
Sep 10 |
Salvatore Maranzano, America and the Mob: Wartime Friends |
Sep 11 |
Salvatore Maranzano, American crime boss (b. 1868) |
Sep 11 |
Anton Amon, Die Beichte des Feldkuraten |
Sep 11 |
Professor Chira, Clothes Count |
Sep 13 |
Lawrence D'Orsay, The Earl of Pawtucket |
Sep 17 |
Franciszek Fraczkowski, Tyrannenherrschaft |
Sep 18 |
Hazrat Babajan, a Baloch Muslim saint (b. c. 1806) |
Sep 19 |
Aurélio da Paz dos Reis, Saída do Pessoal Operário da Fábrica Confiança |
Sep 19 |
Aniela Boguslawska, Dzieje grzechu |
Sep 19 |
Ödön Uher ifj., A bánya titka |
Sep 20 |
Sam Morris, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1884), dies |
Sep 20 |
Ugo Falena, Il re fantasma |
Sep 22 |
Gyula Hegedüs, Élet, halál, szerelem |
Sep 22 |
Adolphe Candé, L'espionne |
Sep 24 |
Gilbert Childs, The Co-Optimists |
Sep 26 |
Albert Capellani, Aladdin and His Wonder Lamp |
Sep 29 |
Regina Doyle, The Danger Line |
Sep 30 |
Kenneth Raisbeck, The Gay Defender |
Oct 2 |
Thomas Johnstone Lipton, sportsman/merchant, dies |
Oct 2 |
Thomas Lipton, Sir Thomas Lipton Out West |
Oct 3 |
Carl August Nielsen, composer, dies at 66 |
Oct 3 |
Carl Nielsen, At kende sandheden |
Oct 5 |
Anne Fellows Johnston, The Little Colonel |
Oct 8 |
Sir John Monash, Australian soldier general (b. 1865) |
Oct 8 |
Dwinelle Benthall, The Goose Woman |
Oct 10 |
Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente), dies at 84 |
Oct 13 |
Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868) |
Oct 13 |
George Kuwa, Moran of the Lady Letty |
Oct 14 |
Harry Mainhall, When the Lightning Struck |
Oct 17 |
Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (b. 1884) |
Oct 18 |
Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, NJ, at 84 |
Oct 18 |
Thomas A. Edison, The Patchwork Girl of Oz |
Oct 19 |
Georg Engel, Die Herrin und ihr Knecht |
Oct 19 |
Edward M. McDermott, The Public Enemy |
Oct 20 |
Emanuel Moor, composer, dies at 68 |
Oct 20 |
István Szentgyörgyi, The Exile |
Oct 20 |
Marie Laudová-Horicová, Okovy |
Oct 21 |
A Schnitzler, writer, dies at 69 |
Oct 21 |
Charles McHugh, Be My Wife |
Oct 21 |
Arthur Schnitzler, Eyes Wide Shut |
Oct 24 |
Murray Bisset, cricketer (S Afr)/Chief Justice of Rhodesia, dies |
Oct 24 |
W.H. Bainbridge, A Broadway Scandal |
Oct 26 |
Charles Comiskey, baseball team owner (b. 1859) |
Oct 26 |
Charles A. Comiskey, The Giants-White Sox Tour |
Oct 29 |
Luciano Gallet, composer, dies at 38 |
Nov 1 |
Fred Huntley, Johanna Enlists |
Nov 2 |
Arthur James Cook, union leader (coal miners), dies at 47 |
Nov 2 |
Harry Musgrove, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885), dies |
Nov 2 |
Harry F. Millarde, The Money Gulf |
Nov 3 |
Rudolf W Canne, Fries playwright (Peaske), dies at 60 |
Nov 3 |
Robert Williams, Platinum Blonde |
Nov 4 |
Charles Buddy Bolden, US jazz musician, dies |
Nov 4 |
Buddy Bolden, |
Nov 6 |
Claude Berkeley, Check and Double Check |
Nov 7 |
Tom Barry, In Old Arizona |
Nov 7 |
Clayton Packard, The King of Kings |
Nov 9 |
Rae Berger, Curing Father |
Nov 9 |
Bessie Lee, Ladies of the Big House |
Nov 9 |
Lillian Clark, Orphans of the Wild |
Nov 11 |
Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840) |
Nov 14 |
Oscar Bergström, Orfeus i Underjorden |
Nov 15 |
Cornelis A J van Dishoeck, publisher, dies |
Nov 17 |
Georgi Atanasov, composer, dies at 50 |
Nov 17 |
John P Lotsy, botanist/geneticist (Resumptio Genetics), dies at 64 |
Nov 19 |
Frederic Cliffe, composer, dies at 74 |
Nov 19 |
Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897) |
Nov 22 |
Karl Adolf, Haus Nr. 37 |
Nov 23 |
Evert Cornelis, Dutch conductor/pianist, dies |
Nov 27 |
Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899) |
Nov 27 |
Robert Ames, The Trespasser |
Nov 27 |
Lya De Putti, The Informer |
Nov 28 |
Theodore Wharton, The Exploits of Elaine |
Nov 29 |
A.P. Younger, In Old Kentucky |
Nov 30 |
John Hyatt Brewer, composer, dies at 75 |
Nov 30 |
Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, composer, dies at 46 |
Nov 30 |
Marc Delmas, The Little Thing |
Nov 30 |
Hjalmar Nortamo, Eulalia-täti |
Dec 2 |
Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent D'indy, French count/composer, dies at 80 |
Dec 3 |
Joseph Bennett, Youth's Desire |
Dec 5 |
Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879) |
Dec 6 |
Herman Fichtenberg, The Great Universal Mystery |
Dec 10 |
Max Elskamp, Belgian author/poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69 |
Dec 13 |
Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (b. 1840) |
Dec 13 |
Enrico Rastelli, Jealousy |
Dec 14 |
W. Carey Wonderly, That Girl from Paris |
Dec 16 |
Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist/bishop of Bruges, dies at 82 |
Dec 17 |
Alfredo Testoni, Il cardinale Lambertini |
Dec 17 |
Frank Sylvester, Father's Bluff |
Dec 18 |
John T "Legs" Diamond, US gangster, murdered at 35 |
Dec 23 |
Wilson Bentley, American scientist (b. 1865) |
Dec 23 |
Mehmet Rauf, The Claw |
Dec 23 |
Tyrone Power Sr., The Big Trail |
Dec 26 |
Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey decimal classification (b. 1851) |
Dec 26 |
Loyola O'Connor, True Heart Susie |
Dec 27 |
Peter Christian Lutkin, composer, dies at 73 |
Dec 27 |
Walter Courvoisier, composer, dies at 56 |
Dec 27 |
Alfred Perceval Graves, The Post-Bag |
Dec 30 |
Tyrone Power Sr, actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at 62 |
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