Celebrity Birthdays In 1931
Alvin Ailey (January 5, 1931-December 1, 1989)
Alvin Ailey was an African-American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City. He is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th-century concert dance. His company gained the nickname "Cultural Ambassador to the World" because of its... WikipediaRogers, Texas, U.S.
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Tommy Allsup (November 24, 1931-)
Tommy Allsup is an American musician. WikipediaOwasso, Oklahoma, US
Stig Anderson (January 25, 1931-September 12, 1997)
Stig Erik Leopold "Stikkan" Anderson was born in Hova, Sweden, and was best known as the manager of the pop group ABBA. WikipediaHova, Sweden
Stockholm, Sweden
Roone Arledge (July 8, 1931-December 5, 2002)
Roone Pinckney Arledge, Jr. was an American sports and news broadcasting executive who was president of ABC Sports from 1968 until 1986 and ABC News from 1977 until 1998, and a key part of the company's rise to competition with the two other main television networks, NBC and CBS, in the 1960s, '70s, '80s and '90s. He created many programs still... WikipediaQueens, New York City, New York, U.S.
New York City, New York, U.S.
Leonard Baker (January 24, 1931-November 23, 1984)
Leonard S. Baker was an American Pulitzer Prize–winning writer. WikipediaPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Washington, D.C.
Anne Bancroft (September 17, 1931-June 6, 2005)
Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, known professionally as Anne Bancroft, was an American actress associated with the Method acting school, which she had studied under Lee Strasberg. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft was acknowledged for her work in film, theatre and television. She won one Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two... Wikipedia
Ernie Banks (January 31, 1931-January 23, 2015)
Ernest "Ernie" Banks, nicknamed "Mr. Cub" and "Mr. Sunshine", was an American baseball player. Banks was a Major League Baseball shortstop and first baseman for the Chicago Cubs between 1953 and 1971. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977, and was named to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. WikipediaDallas, Texas
Chicago, Illinois
Peter Barnes (playwright) (January 10, 1931-July 1, 2004)
Peter Barnes was an English Olivier Award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His most famous work is the play 'The Ruling Class', which was made into a 1972 film for which Peter O'Toole received an Oscar nomination. WikipediaLondon
London
Efraín Barquero (<a href="/born/year/1931" title="Celebrities Born in 1931">1931</a>-)
Efraín Barquero is a Chilean poet. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 2008. Wikipedia
William Bast (April 3, 1931-May 4, 2015)
William Bast was an American screenwriter and author. In addition to writing scripts for motion pictures and television, he was the author of two biographies of the screen actor James Dean. He was partnered in work and life to Paul Huson. WikipediaMilwaukee, Wisconsin
Los Angeles, California
Bernd and Hilla Becher (August 20, 1931-June 22, 2007)
Bernhard "Bernd" Becher, and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser, were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures, often organised in grids. As the founders of what has come to be known as the ‘Becher... WikipediaSiegen
Rostock
Jean Béliveau (August 31, 1931-December 2, 2014)
Joseph Jean Arthur Béliveau was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played parts of 20 seasons with the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens from 1950 to 1971. Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1972, "Le Gros Bill" Béliveau ranks among the ten greatest NHL players. Born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Béliveau first played... WikipediaTrois-Rivières, QC, CAN
Longueuil, QC, CAN
Thomas Bernhard (February 9, 1931-February 12, 1989)
Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet. Bernhard, whose body of work has been called "the most significant literary achievement since World War II," is widely considered to be one of the most important German-speaking authors of the postwar era. WikipediaHeerlen, Netherlands
Ohlsdorf, Upper Austria
Jan Błoński (January 15, 1931-February 10, 2009)
Jan Błoński was a Polish historian, literary critic, publicist and translator. He was a leading representative of the Kraków school of literary criticism, regarded as one of the most influential critics of postwar Poland. Wikipedia
Claire Bloom (February 15, 1931-)
Patricia Claire Blume CBE is an English film and stage actress whose career has spanned over six decades. She is famous for leading roles in plays such as 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' 'A Doll’s House', and 'Long Day's Journey into Night', and has starred in nearly sixty films. WikipediaFinchley, London, England
David Mervyn Blow (June 27, 1931-June 8, 2004)
David Mervyn Blow FRS was an influential British biophysicist. He was best known for the development of X-ray crystallography, a technique used to determine the molecular structures of tens of thousands of biological molecules. This has been extremely important to the pharmaceutical industry. WikipediaBirmingham, England
Appledore, North Devon, England
Augusto Boal (March 16, 1931-May 2, 2009)
Augusto Boal was a Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical popular education movements. Boal served one term as a 'Vereador' in Rio de Janeiro from 1993 to 1997, where he developed legislative theatre. WikipediaRio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Frank Bolling (November 16, 1931-)
Frank Elmore Bolling is a former second baseman in Major League Baseball who played from 1954 through 1966 for the Detroit Tigers and the Milwaukee / Atlanta Braves. He hit and threw right-handed, and is the younger brother of shortstop Milt Bolling. WikipediaMobile, Alabama
Ken Boyer (May 20, 1931-September 7, 1982)
Kenton Lloyd "Kent" Boyer was an American Major League Baseball third baseman, coach and manager who played on the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, and Los Angeles Dodgers for 15 seasons, 1955 through 1969. He was inducted into the Cardinals Hall of Fame in 2014. WikipediaLiberty, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri
Vance D. Brand (May 9, 1931-)
Vance DeVoe Brand is an American former naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He served as Command Module Pilot during the first U.S.-Soviet joint spaceflight in 1975, and as Commander of three Space Shuttle missions. WikipediaLongmont, Colorado, U.S.
Alfred Brendel (January 5, 1931-)
Alfred Brendel KBE is an Austrian pianist, poet and author. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of all time. WikipediaWiesenberg (now Loučná nad Desnou)
Leslie Bricusse (January 29, 1931-)
Leslie Bricusse is an English composer, lyricist, and playwright, most prominently working in musicals and also film theme songs. WikipediaLondon, England, UK
Fred Brooks (April 19, 1931-)
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. is an American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book 'The Mythical Man-Month'. Brooks has received many... WikipediaDurham, North Carolina
Malcolm Browne (April 17, 1931-August 27, 2012)
Malcolm Wilde Browne was an American journalist and photographer. His best known work was the award-winning photograph of the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức in 1963. WikipediaNew York City
New Hampshire
Jim Bunning (October 23, 1931-)
James Paul David "Jim" Bunning is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher and politician. WikipediaSouthgate, Kentucky, USA
Nigel Calder (December 2, 1931-June 25, 2014)
Nigel David McKail Ritchie-Calder was a British science writer. WikipediaLondon
Crawley, Sussex
Leslie Caron (July 1, 1931-)
Leslie Claire Margaret Caron is a French and American film actress and dancer who appeared in 45 films between 1951 and 2003. Her autobiography, 'Thank Heaven', was published in 2010 in the UK and US, and in 2011 in a French version. WikipediaBoulogne-Billancourt, France
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Christopher Chataway (January 31, 1931-January 19, 2014)
Sir Christopher John Chataway was a British middle- and long-distance runner, television news broadcaster, and Conservative politician. WikipediaChelsea, London, England
London
Sri Chinmoy (August 27, 1931-October 11, 2007)
Chinmoy Kumar Ghose, better known as Sri Chinmoy, was an Indian spiritual master who taught meditation in the West after moving to New York City in 1964. Chinmoy established his first meditation center in Queens, New York, and eventually had thousands of students in 60 countries. A prolific author, artist, poet, and musician, he also held public... WikipediaShakpura Village, Chittagong District, East Bengal, British India (now Bangladesh)
New York City
Dick Clair (November 12, 1931-December 12, 1988)
Dick Clair was an American television producer, actor and television and film writer, best known for the television sitcoms 'It's a Living', 'The Facts of Life', and 'Mama's Family'. WikipediaSan Francisco, California, United States
Los Angeles, California, United States
Jim Clark (film editor) (May 24, 1931-)
Jim Clark is a British film editor and director. WikipediaBoston, Lincolnshire
Bill Clay (April 30, 1931-)
William Lacy "Bill" Clay, Sr. is an American politician from Missouri. As Congressman from Missouri's First District, he represented portions of St. Louis in the U.S. House of Representatives for 32 years. WikipediaSt. Louis, Missouri
James Cleveland (December 5, 1931-February 9, 1991)
The Reverend Dr. James Edward Cleveland was a gospel singer, musician, and composer. Known as the King of Gospel music, Cleveland was a driving force behind the creation of the modern gospel sound by incorporating traditional black gospel, modern soul, pop, and jazz in arrangements for mass choirs. Throughout his career, Cleveland appeared on... WikipediaChicago, Illinois, U.S.
Culver City, California, U.S.
Jerrie Cobb (March 5, 1931-)
Geraldyn M. Cobb is an American aviator. She was also part of the "Mercury 13," a group of women who underwent some of the same physiological screening tests as the original Mercury Seven astronauts as part of a private, non-NASA program. Wikipedia
Charles Colson (October 16, 1931-April 21, 2012)
Charles "Chuck" Wendell Colson was an Evangelical Christian leader who founded Prison Fellowship and BreakPoint. Prior to his conversion to Christianity, he served as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. WikipediaBoston, Massachusetts, United States
Falls Church, Virginia, United States
Sam Cooke (January 22, 1931-December 11, 1964)
Samuel "Sam" Cooke was an American recording artist and singer-songwriter, generally considered among the greatest of all time. WikipediaClarksdale, Mississippi
Los Angeles, California
James Cronin (September 29, 1931-)
James Watson Cronin is an American nuclear physicist. WikipediaChicago, Illinois, USA
James Dean (February 8, 1931-September 30, 1955)
James Byron Dean was an American actor. He is a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, 'Rebel Without a Cause', in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were loner Cal Trask in 'East of Eden' and surly ranch hand... WikipediaMarion, Indiana, United States
Cholame, California, United States
Sven Delblanc (May 26, 1931-December 15, 1992)
Sven Delblanc, born May 26, 1931 in Swan River, Manitoba, Canada, died December 15, 1992 in Sunnersta, Gottsunda Parish, Uppsala, Sweden was a Swedish author and professor of literature. He is buried in Hammarby kyrkogård in Uppsala, Sweden. WikipediaSwan River, Manitoba, Canada
Sunnersta, Sweden
Michel Deville (April 13, 1931-)
Michel Deville is a French film director and screenwriter. WikipediaBoulogne-sur-Seine, France
Angie Dickinson (September 30, 1931-)
Angie Dickinson is an American actress. She began her career on television, appearing in many anthology series during 1950s, before landing her breakthrough role in 1959 western film 'Rio Bravo', for which she received Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. WikipediaKulm, North Dakota, U.S.
E. L. Doctorow (January 6, 1931-)
Edgar Lawrence "E. L." Doctorow is an American author. He is known internationally for his unique works of historical fiction. WikipediaBronx, New York City, United States
Russell Doolittle (<a href="/born/year/1931" title="Celebrities Born in 1931">1931</a>-)
Russell F. Doolittle is an American biochemist at the University of California, San Diego, whose research focuses on the structure and evolution of proteins. Born in Connecticut, he earned a B.A. in Biology from Wesleyan University in 1952, and an M.A. in Education from Trinity College in 1957. He earned his Ph.D in biochemistry at Harvard... WikipediaConnecticut
Olympia Dukakis (June 20, 1931-)
Olympia Dukakis is an American actress. She started her career in the theatre, and won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for her Off-Broadway performance in Bertolt Brecht's 'Man Equals Man'. She later transitioned to film work and in 1987 she won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA nomination for her performance in 'Moonstruck'. She... WikipediaLowell, Massachusetts
Robert Duvall (January 5, 1931-)
Robert Selden Duvall is an American actor and director. He has been nominated for seven Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and has multiple nominations and one win each of the BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Emmy Award. He received the National Medal of Arts in 2005. WikipediaSan Diego, California, USA
Allan W. Eckert (January 30, 1931-July 7, 2011)
Allan Wesley Eckert was an American historian, historical novelist, and naturalist. Wikipedia
David Eddings (July 7, 1931-June 2, 2009)
David Eddings was an American fantasy writer. With his wife Leigh, he authored several best-selling epic fantasy novel series, including 'The Belgariad', 'The Malloreon', 'The Elenium', 'The Tamuli' and 'The Dreamers'. Wikipedia
Ramblin' Jack Elliott (August 1, 1931-)
Ramblin' Jack Elliott is an American folk singer and performer. Wikipedia
Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931-)
Daniel Ellsberg is an activist and former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to 'The New York Times' and other newspapers. WikipediaDetroit, Michigan, U.S.
Howard Engel (April 2, 1931-)
Howard Engel CM is a Canadian mystery writer and CBC producer who resides in Toronto, Ontario. He is well known to Canadian readers for his series of Benny Cooperman detective novels, set in the Niagara Region in and around the city of Grantham, Ontario. Engel is a founder of Crime Writers of Canada. WikipediaRobert Enrico (April 13, 1931-February 23, 2001)
Robert Georgio Enrico was a French film director and scriptwriter best known for making the Oscar winning short 'Incident at Owl Creek'. WikipediaDenise Filiatrault (May 16, 1931-)
Denise Filiatrault is a Canadian actress and director. WikipediaMontreal, Quebec
Wesley L. Fox (September 30, 1931-)
Wesley Lee Fox is a retired Colonel in the United States Marine Corps with 43 years of service. Fox received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Vietnam War. He is considered to be one of the legendary war heroes within the Marine Corps. WikipediaHerndon, Virginia
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Émile Gardaz (August 29, 1931-December 19, 2007)
Émile Gardaz was a Swiss Romand radio moderator and author from Villars-le-Terroir, canton of Vaud, Switzerland, working for Radio suisse romande since 1955. He was the father of the comedian Sophie Gardaz. WikipediaÉchallens, Vaud
Bernie Geoffrion (February 14, 1931-March 11, 2006)
Joseph Bernard André Geoffrion, nicknamed Boom Boom, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Generally considered as one of the innovators of the slapshot, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1972 following a 16-year career with the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers of the National Hockey League. WikipediaMontreal, QC, CAN
Atlanta, GA, USA
Riccardo Giacconi (October 6, 1931-)
Riccardo Giacconi is an American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He is currently a professor at the Johns Hopkins University. WikipediaGenoa, Italy
Annie Girardot (October 25, 1931-February 28, 2011)
Annie Girardot was a three-time César Award winning French actress. She often played strong-willed, independent, hard-working, and often lonely women, imbuing her characters with an earthiness and reality that endeared her with women undergoing similar daily struggles. WikipediaParis, France
Paris, France
William Goldman (August 12, 1931-)
William Goldman is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist, before turning to writing for film. He has won two Academy Awards for his screenplays, first for the western 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' and again for 'All the President's Men', about journalists who broke the Watergate... WikipediaChicago, Illinois, US
James Goldstone (June 8, 1931-November 5, 1999)
James Goldstone was an American film and television director for over 30 years, with his last credit dating from 1990. WikipediaLos Angeles, California
Shaftsbury, Vermont
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Mikhail Gorbachev (March 2, 1931-)
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 when the party was dissolved. He served as the country's head of state from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991. He was the only general... WikipediaPrivolnoye, Russia
Caroline Graham (July 17, 1931-)
Caroline Graham is an English playwright, screenwriter and novelist. WikipediaNuneaton, England
Daniel S. Greenberg (<a href="/born/year/1931" title="Celebrities Born in 1931">1931</a>-)
Daniel S. Greenberg is an American journalist, editor, and author. Wikipedia
Petey Greene (January 23, 1931-January 10, 1984)
Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, Jr. was an African-American television and radio talk-show host. A two-time Emmy Award-winner, Greene overcame drug addiction and a prison sentence for armed robbery to become one of the most prominent media personalities in Washington, DC. On his shows, Greene often discussed issues such as racism, poverty, drug usage,... WikipediaLouisville, Kentucky, USA
Washington, DC, USA
William Hanley (October 22, 1931-May 25, 2012)
William Hanley was an American playwright, novelist, and scriptwriter. His parents were William and Anne Hanley. William Hanley, Sr was born in Liverpool, England in 1899, of Irish Catholic immigrants. He was a seaman prior to settling in the USA, and then worked as a housepainter. Shortly after Hanley's birth the family moved to Queens, New York.... WikipediaLorain, Ohio, U.S.
Ridgefield, CT, U.S.
Johnny Hart (February 18, 1931-April 7, 2007)
John Lewis "Johnny" Hart was an American cartoonist noted as the creator of the comic strips 'B.C.' and 'Wizard of Id'. Brant Parker co-produced and illustrated 'Wizard of Id'. Hart was recognized with several awards, including the Swedish Adamson Award and five from the National Cartoonists Society. In his later years, he sparked controversy by... WikipediaEndicott, New York
Nineveh, New York
Shirley Hazzard (January 30, 1931-)
Shirley Hazzard is an Australian author of fiction and non-fiction. She was born in Australia, but holds citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States. Her 1970 novel, 'The Bay of Noon', was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010 and her 2003 novel 'The Great Fire' won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. WikipediaSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Richard F. Heck (August 15, 1931-)
Richard Fred Heck is an American chemist noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions that couple aryl halides with alkenes. WikipediaSpringfield, Massachusetts
Brian Henderson (television presenter) (September 15, 1931-)
Brian Weir "Hendo" Henderson AM is a Gold Logie winning New Zealand born Australian television personality and pioneer known for his long association with the Nine Network in Australia as a television news anchor and variety show presenter. WikipediaDunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Jerry Herman (July 10, 1931-)
Jerry Herman is an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals 'Hello, Dolly!', 'Mame', and 'La Cage aux Folles'. He has been nominated for the Tony Award five times, and won twice, for 'Hello, Dolly!' and 'La Cage aux Folles'. In 2009, Herman received the Tony... WikipediaNew York City, NY, United States
Ian Holm (September 12, 1931-)
Sir Ian Holm CBE is an English actor known for his stage work and many film roles. He received the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in 'The Homecoming' and the 1998 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role of 'King Lear'. He was nominated for the 1981 Academy Award for Best... WikipediaGoodmayes, Essex, England
Nasir Hussain (February 3, 1931-March 13, 2002)
Nasir Hussain was an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter. Akshay Manwani, who authored Sahir Ludhianvi's biography, is currently working on a book on Hussain's cinema. WikipediaBhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
Mumbai, India
Sowcar Janaki (December 12, 1931-)
Sankaramanchi Janaki, popularly known as Sowcar Janaki, is a south-Indian actress who has acted in over 385 Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam films. She also performed on stage in over 300 shows and was a radio artist during her earlier years. She became a popular actress with hits such as 'Sowcar', 'Pudhiya Paravai' and 'Iru Kodugal'.... WikipediaRajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh
Haynes Johnson (July 9, 1931-May 24, 2013)
Haynes Bonner Johnson was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, best-selling author, and TV analyst. He reported on most of the major news stories of the latter half of the 20th century and was widely regarded as one of the top American political commentators. WikipediaNew York City
Bethesda, Maryland
George Jones (September 12, 1931-April 26, 2013)
George Glenn Jones was an American musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame for his long list of hit records, including his most well known song "He Stopped Loving Her Today", as well as his distinctive voice and phrasing. For the last 20 years of his life, Jones was frequently referred to as the greatest living country... Wikipedia
James Earl Jones (January 17, 1931-)
James Earl Jones is an American actor who in a career of more than 60 years has become known as "one of America's most distinguished and versatile" actors and "one of the greatest actors in American history." Since his Broadway debut in 1957, Jones has won many awards, including a Tony Award and Golden Globe Award for his role in 'The Great White... WikipediaArkabutla, Mississippi
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Mauricio Kagel (December 24, 1931-September 18, 2008)
Mauricio Kagel was a German-Argentine composer. He was notable for his interest in developing the theatrical side of musical performance . WikipediaBuenos Aires, Argentina
Cologne, Germany
Hal Kant (July 29, 1931-October 19, 2008)
Harold Sanford "Hal" Kant was an entertainment industry attorney who specialized in representing musical groups. He was best known for his 35 years as principal lawyer and general counsel for the Grateful Dead, a position in the group that was so strong that his business cards with the band identified his role as "Czar". Wikipedia
John Kerr (actor) (November 15, 1931-February 2, 2013)
John Grinham Kerr, was an American actor and lawyer. WikipediaNew York, New York, U.S.
Pasadena, California, U.S.
O. N. V. Kurup (May 27, 1931-)
Ottaplakkal Nambiyadikkal Velu Kurup, popularly known as O. N. V. Kurup or simply O. N. V., is a renowned Malayalam poet and lyricist from Kerala, India, who won Jnanpith Award, the highest literary award in India for the year 2007. O. N. V. Kurup is also a lyricist in Malayalam cinema. He has penned a lot of lyrics for dramas and TV serials also.... WikipediaChavara, Kollam, Kerala
John le Carré (October 19, 1931-)
David John Moore Cornwell, pen name John le Carré, is a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, Cornwell worked for the British intelligence services MI5 and MI6, and began writing novels under a pen name. His third novel 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' became an international best-seller, and it remains one of his... WikipediaPoole, Dorset, England
David Lee (physicist) (January 20, 1931-)
David Morris Lee is an American physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert C. Richardson and Douglas Osheroff "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3." WikipediaRye, New York
Hal Linden (March 20, 1931-)
Hal Linden is an American stage and screen actor, television director and musician. WikipediaNew York City, New York, United States
Michael Lonsdale (May 24, 1931-)
Michael Lonsdale, sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale, is a French actor who has appeared in over 180 films and television shows. WikipediaParis, France
Mickey Mantle (October 20, 1931-August 13, 1995)
Mickey Charles Mantle, nicknamed "The Commerce Comet" or "The Mick", was an American baseball player. Mantle played in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees as a center fielder and first baseman, from 1951 through 1968. Mantle was one of the best players and sluggers, and is regarded by many to be the greatest switch hitter in baseball... WikipediaSpavinaw, Oklahoma
Dallas, Texas
Jackie Mason (June 9, 1931-)
Jackie Mason is an American stand-up comedian and film and television actor. He is ranked #63 on Comedy Central's 100 greatest stand-up comedians of all-time. WikipediaSheboygan, Wisconsin, U.S.
Drummond Matthews (February 5, 1931-July 20, 1997)
Drummond Hoyle Matthews FRS was a British marine geologist and geophysicist and a key contributor to the theory of plate tectonics. His work, along with that of fellow Briton Fred Vine and Canadian Lawrence Morley, showed how variations in the magnetic properties of rocks forming the ocean floor could be consistent with, and ultimately help... Wikipedia
Willie Mays (May 6, 1931-)
Willie Howard Mays, Jr., nicknamed "The Say Hey Kid" is a retired American Major League Baseball center fielder who spent almost all of his 22 season career playing for the New York and San Francisco Giants before finishing with the New York Mets. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979, his first year of eligibility. WikipediaWestfield, Alabama
Norma Fox Mazer (May 15, 1931-October 17, 2009)
Norma Fox Mazer was an American author and teacher, best known for her books for children and young adults. Her novels featured credible young characters confronting difficult situations such as family separation and death. WikipediaNew York City, New York, USA
Montpelier, Vermont, USA
Alda Merini (March 21, 1931-November 1, 2009)
Alda Merini was an Italian writer and poet. She was born and died in Milan. WikipediaMilan, Italy
Milan, Italy
Karl Miller (August 2, 1931-September 24, 2014)
Karl Fergus Connor Miller FRSL was a British literary editor, critic and writer. WikipediaWalter C. Miller (March 15, 1931-)
Walter C. Miller is a television producer and director, whose works span from the mid-1960s until the present day. He has won numerous Emmy Awards throughout his career. Wikipedia
John Milnor (February 20, 1931-)
John Willard Milnor is a highly influential American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, K-theory and dynamical systems. Milnor is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University and one of the four mathematicians to have won the Fields Medal, the Wolf Prize, and the Abel Prize. WikipediaOrange, New Jersey
John Mollo (March 18, 1931-)
John Mollo is a British costume designer and book author, most known for his Oscar-winning costume design for the 'Star Wars' film series. He is the older brother of Andrew Mollo. WikipediaLondon, England
Dickie Moore (ice hockey) (January 6, 1931-)
Richard Winston "Dickie" Moore is a Canadian former professional hockey player, successful businessman and community philanthropist. He twice won the Art Ross Trophy as the National Hockey League's leading scorer and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. WikipediaMontreal, QC, CAN
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Rita Moreno (December 11, 1931-)
Rita Dolores Moreno is a Puerto Rican actress and singer. She is the only Hispanic and one of the few performers to have won all four major annual American entertainment awards, which include an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony, and was the second Puerto Rican to win an Oscar. WikipediaHumacao, Puerto Rico
Max Morgan-Witts (September 27, 1931-)
Max Morgan-Witts is a British producer, director and author of Canadian origin. WikipediaDetroit, USA
Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931-)
Toni Morrison is an American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are 'The Bluest Eye', 'Sula', 'Song of Solomon' and 'Beloved'. She was also commissioned to write the libretto for a new opera, 'Margaret Garner', first performed in... WikipediaLorain, Ohio
Robert Morse (May 18, 1931-)
Robert Alan Morse is an American actor and singer best known as the star of both the 1961 original Broadway production and 1967 movie version of 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying', and as Bertram Cooper, from 2007 to 2014, in the AMC dramatic series 'Mad Men'. WikipediaNewton, Massachusetts, USA
Rupert Murdoch (March 11, 1931-)
Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KCSG is an Australian American business magnate. Murdoch became managing director of Australia's News Limited, inherited from his father Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch in 1952. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of global media holding company News Corporation, the world's second-largest media conglomerate, and its successors... WikipediaAdelaide, Australia
Ivan Nagel (June 28, 1931-April 9, 2012)
Ivan Nagel was a German theater scholar, critic and former theater director of Hungarian origin. WikipediaBerlin
Charlie Neal (January 31, 1931-November 18, 1996)
Charles Lenard Neal was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball. He was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent in 1950, and won the 1959 World Series after the team moved to Los Angeles. He hit two home runs in Game 2 of the Series, at Chicago's Comiskey Park. WikipediaLongview, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Anthony Newley (September 24, 1931-April 14, 1999)
Anthony Newley was an English actor, singer and songwriter. Newley achieved success as a performer in such diverse fields as rock and roll and stage and screen acting. As a recording artist he enjoyed a dozen Top 40 entries on the UK Singles Chart between 1959 and 1962, including two number one hits. With songwriting partner Leslie Bricusse, Newley... WikipediaLondon, England
Jensen Beach, Florida, United States
Mike Nichols (November 6, 1931-November 19, 2014)
Mike Nichols was a German-born American film and theatre director, producer, actor and comedian. He began his career in the 1950s with the improv troupe The Compass Players, predecessor of the Second City in Chicago, and as one half of the comedy duo Nichols and May, along with Elaine May. May was also in the Compass. In 1968 he won the Academy... WikipediaBerlin, Weimar Republic
New York City, New York, U.S.
Gustav Nossal (June 4, 1931-)
Sir Gustav Victor Joseph Nossal is a distinguished Australian research biologist. He is famous for his contributions to the fields of antibody formation and immunological tolerance. WikipediaBad Ischl, Austria
Roger Penrose (August 8, 1931-)
Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. WikipediaColchester, Essex, England
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (November 26, 1931-)
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel is an Argentine human rights activist, community organizer, pacifist, art painter, writer and sculptor. He was the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize. WikipediaBuenos Aires
Bill Persky (<a href="/born/year/1931" title="Celebrities Born in 1931">1931</a>-)
Bill Persky is an American Emmy Award-winning director, screenwriter, producer, and actor for television. With his long-time collaborator Sam Denoff, he wrote and created the television show 'That Girl' starring Marlo Thomas. Their writing collaboration on episodes of 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' resulted in some of the shows most popular episodes. He... Wikipedia
Regis Philbin (August 25, 1931-)
Regis Francis Xavier Philbin is an American media personality, actor and singer, known for hosting talk and game shows since the 1960s. Sometimes called "the hardest working man in show business", he holds the Guinness World Record for the most time spent in front of a television camera. His trademarks include his excited manner, his Bronx accent,... WikipediaNew York City, New York, United States
Emiliano Piedra (<a href="/born/year/1931" title="Celebrities Born in 1931">1931</a>-1991)
Emiliano Piedra was a Spanish film producer. Wikipedia
Gordon Pirie (February 10, 1931-December 7, 1991)
Douglas Alistair Gordon Pirie was a long-distance runner. He was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England but was brought up in Coulsdon, Surrey and ran for South London Harriers. He died of cholangiocarcinoma in Lymington, Hampshire. WikipediaLeeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Lymington, Hampshire, England
Yves Pouliquen (February 17, 1931-)
Yves Pouliquen is a doctor by profession, his work has been dedicated to the pathology of the cornea. WikipediaMortain, France
Alison Prince (March 26, 1931-)
Alison Prince is a British children's writer, screenwriter and biographer now settled on the Isle of Arran in Scotland. WikipediaBeckenham, Kent, England, UK
Lilly Pulitzer (November 10, 1931-April 7, 2013)
Lillian Pulitzer Rousseau, better known as Lilly Pulitzer, was an American socialite and fashion designer. She founded Lilly Pulitzer, Inc., which produces clothing and other such wares featuring bright, colorful, floral prints. As the brand is popular with high society, she was called the "Queen of Prep". Wikipedia
Michael O. Rabin (September 1, 1931-)
Michael Oser Rabin, is an Israeli computer scientist and a recipient of the Turing Award. WikipediaBreslau, Germany
Singeetam Srinivasa Rao (September 21, 1931-)
Singeetam Srinivasa Rao is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, composer, singer, lyricist and actor, known for his works in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi films, across multiple genres. The octogenerain is widely regarded as one of the versatile directors of India. He is credited with having revolutionised the South Indian... WikipediaUdayagiri, Andhra Pradesh, India
Dan Rather (October 31, 1931-)
Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr. is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the 'CBS Evening News.' He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine 'Dan Rather Reports' on the cable channel AXS TV. Rather was anchor of the 'CBS Evening News' for 24 years, from March 9, 1981, to March 9, 2005. He also contributed to... WikipediaWharton, Texas, USA
Charles Nelson Reilly (January 13, 1931-May 25, 2007)
Charles Nelson Reilly was an American actor, comedian, director and drama teacher, known for his comedic roles in stages, films, children's television and cartoons, and as a game show panelist. WikipediaThe Bronx, New York, United States
Beverly Hills, California, United States
Burton Richter (March 22, 1931-)
Burton Richter is a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory team led by Samuel Ting. This discovery was part of the so-called November Revolution of particle physics. He was the SLAC director from 1984 to 1999. WikipediaBrooklyn, New York City
Klaus Rifbjerg (December 15, 1931-April 4, 2015)
Klaus Rifbjerg was a Danish writer. He authored more than 170 novels, books and essays. In 1965 he co-produced the film '4x4' which was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Wikipedia
Sailor Roberts (March 7, 1931-June 23, 1995)
Bryan W. "Sailor" Roberts was an American professional poker player. Wikipedia
Jack Rosenthal (September 8, 1931-May 29, 2004)
Jack Morris Rosenthal CBE was an English playwright, who wrote 129 early episodes of the ITV soap opera 'Coronation Street' and over 150 screenplays, including original TV plays, feature films, and adaptations. He wrote the 1986 television film 'London's Burning' for London Weekend Television, which proved so successful that it was adapted into the... WikipediaCheetham Hill, Manchester, England
London, England
Ann Roth (October 30, 1931-)
Ann Roth is an American costume designer for films and Broadway theatre. WikipediaHanover, Pennsylvania, USA
Jean-Paul Roussillon (March 5, 1931-July 31, 2009)
Jean-Paul Roussillon was a French actor. He appeared in 87 films and television shows between 1954 and 2008. He starred in the film 'Playing 'In the Company of Men'', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. He won the César Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in 'A Christmas Tale'. WikipediaParis, France
Bourgogne, France
Bill Rowe (sound engineer) (February 2, 1931-September 29, 1992)
William Oliver "Bill" Rowe was an English sound engineer. He won a BAFTA Award for Best Sound in 1985 for 'The Killing Fields' and an Academy Award for Best Sound for 'The Last Emperor' in 1988. He worked on over 160 films between 1955 and 1992. WikipediaCrook, County Durham, England
Northwood, Middlesex, England
Howard Ruff (<a href="/born/year/1931" title="Celebrities Born in 1931">1931</a>-)
Howard J. Ruff is financial adviser and writer of the pro-hard money investing newsletter 'The Ruff Times'. Ruff is the author of 'Famine and Survival in America', 'How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years', 'Survive and Win in the Inflationary Eighties', 'Making Money', and other books. He has recently updated and re-released his most successful... Wikipedia
Jane Rule (March 28, 1931-November 27, 2007)
Jane Vance Rule, CM, OBC was a Canadian writer of lesbian-themed novels and non-fiction. WikipediaPlainfield, New Jersey
Galiano Island
Morley Safer (November 8, 1931-)
Morley Safer is a Canadian-American reporter and correspondent for CBS News. He is best known for his long tenure on the newsmagazine '60 Minutes', the cast of which he joined in December 1970, during the third season of the series. WikipediaToronto, Ontario, Canada
John Robert Schrieffer (May 31, 1931-)
John Robert Schrieffer is an American physicist and, with John Bardeen and Leon N Cooper, recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the BCS theory, the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity. WikipediaOak Park, Illinois
William Shatner (March 22, 1931-)
William "Bill" Shatner is a Canadian actor, singer, author, producer, director, spokesman, and comedian. He gained worldwide fame and became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, Captain of the USS 'Enterprise', in the 'Star Trek' franchise. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a... WikipediaMontreal, Quebec, Canada
Pat Sheehan (model) (September 7, 1931-January 14, 2006)
Patricia Ann Sheehan, also known as Patricia Sheehan Crosby was an American actress and model. She was 'Playboy' magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1958 issue. WikipediaSan Francisco, California, U.S.
Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Hamilton O. Smith (August 23, 1931-)
Hamilton Othanel Smith is an American microbiologist and Nobel laureate. WikipediaNew York City, New York
Robert Sobel (February 19, 1931-June 2, 1999)
Robert Sobel was an American professor of history at Hofstra University and a well-known and prolific writer of business histories. Wikipediathe Bronx, New York City
Charles Taylor (philosopher) (November 5, 1931-)
Charles Margrave Taylor is a Canadian philosopher from Montreal, Quebec and professor emeritus at McGill University best known for his contributions to political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, history of philosophy and intellectual history. This work has earned him the prestigious Kyoto Prize and the Templeton Prize, in addition to... WikipediaMontreal, Quebec, Canada
Tomas Tranströmer (April 15, 1931-March 26, 2015)
Tomas Gösta Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's work is also characterized by a sense of mystery and wonder underlying the routine of everyday life, a quality which often gives his poems a... WikipediaStockholm, Sweden
Stockholm, Sweden
Ike Turner (November 5, 1931-December 12, 2007)
Izear Luster Turner Jr., known as Ike Turner, was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer. An early pioneer of fifties rock and roll, he is most popularly known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s with his then-wife Tina Turner in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. WikipediaClarksdale, Mississippi, US
San Marcos, California, US
Desmond Tutu (October 7, 1931-)
Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. WikipediaKlerksdorp, Western Transvaal, South Africa
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Vaali (poet) (October 29, 1931-July 18, 2013)
Vaali was an Indian poet and lyricist whose works were in Tamil, had a five-decade long association with the Tamil film industry, wrote over 15,000 songs. He acted in a number of films, including 'Sathya', 'Hey Ram', 'Paarthale Paravasam' and 'Poikkal Kudhirai'. He was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest... WikipediaSrirangam, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India
Chennai, Tamil Nadu,
Martinus J. G. Veltman (June 27, 1931-)
Martinus Justinus Godefriedus "Tini" Veltman is a Dutch theoretical physicist. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in physics with his former student Gerardus 't Hooft for their work on particle theory. WikipediaWaalwijk, Netherlands
Judith Viorst (February 2, 1931-)
− Judith Viorst is an American author, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher. She is perhaps best known for her children's literature, such as 'The Tenth Good Thing About Barney' and the 'Alexander' series of short picture books, which includes 'Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day', which has sold over two... WikipediaNewark, New Jersey
Monica Vitti (November 3, 1931-)
Monica Vitti is an Italian actress best known for her starring roles in films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the early 1960s. After working with Antonioni, Vitti changed focus and began making comedies, working with director Mario Monicelli on many films. She has appeared opposite Marcello Mastroianni, Richard Harris, Terence Stamp,... WikipediaRome, Italy
Eric Von Schmidt (May 28, 1931-February 2, 2007)
Eric Von Schmidt was an American singer-songwriter and Grammy Award recipient. He was associated with the folk/blues revival of the 1960s and a key part of the East Coast folk music scene that included Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. WikipediaBridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
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Chico Whitaker (<a href="/born/year/1931" title="Celebrities Born in 1931">1931</a>-)
Francisco "Chico" Whitaker Ferreira, is a Brazilian architect, politician and social activist. A devout Catholic, Whitaker inspires his work in the liberation theology, while maintaining close ties with the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, a body linked to the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil. Whitaker served as an alderman for... Wikipedia
Douglas Wilder (January 17, 1931-)
Lawrence Douglas Wilder is an American politician, who served as the first African American to be elected as governor of Virginia and first African-American governor of any state since Reconstruction. Wilder served as the 66th Governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. When earlier elected as Lieutenant Governor, he was the first African American... WikipediaRichmond, Virginia
Al Williamson (March 21, 1931-June 12, 2010)
Alfonso "Al" Williamson was an American cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator specializing in adventure, Western and science-fiction/fantasy. WikipediaNew York City, New York, U.S.
Upstate New York
Colin Wilson (June 26, 1931-December 5, 2013)
Colin Henry Wilson, a prolific English writer, first came to prominence as a philosopher and as a novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal. Wilson called his philosophy "new existentialism" or "phenomenological existentialism", and maintained his life work was "that of a philosopher, and purpose to create a new and... WikipediaJames Q. Wilson (May 27, 1931-March 2, 2012)
James Quinn Wilson was an American academic, political scientist, and an authority on public administration. A Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University and a senior fellow at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College, he was a co-author of the 1982 article introducing the broken windows... WikipediaMary Louise Wilson (November 12, 1931-)
Mary Louise Wilson is a Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning American stage, film and television actress, and singer. She was born in New Haven, Connecticut. WikipediaNew Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Tom Wilson (cartoonist) (August 1, 1931-September 16, 2011)
Thomas Albert Wilson, better known as Tom Wilson, was an American cartoonist. Wilson was the creator of the comic strip 'Ziggy', which he drew from 1971 to 1987. The strip was then continued by his son, Tom Wilson, Jr. WikipediaGrant Town, West Virginia, United States
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Gene Wolfe (May 7, 1931-)
Gene Rodman Wolfe is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He is a prolific short-story writer and novelist and has won many science fiction and fantasy literary awards. WikipediaNew York City
Tom Wolfe (March 2, 1931-)
Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. is an American author and journalist, best known for his association and influence over the New Journalism literary movement in which literary techniques are used in objective even-handed journalism. Beginning his career as a reporter, he soon became one of the most culturally significant figures of the 1960s after... WikipediaRichmond, Virginia, U.S.
Don Zimmer (January 17, 1931-)
Donald William Zimmer is a former infielder, manager, and coach in Major League Baseball, currently serving as a senior advisor to the Tampa Bay Rays baseball organization. Zimmer has been involved in professional baseball since 1949. WikipediaCincinnati, Ohio