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Pages in category "1931 births" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 10,205 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
1931 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the ... Nicaragua, killing 2,000 people. April. April 1 – The Second ...
May 13 – Jim Jones, American People's Temple cult leader (d. 1978) May 14. Alvin Lucier, American composer (d. 2021) Frank Shrontz, American businessman and politician (d. 2024) May 15. Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Chairman of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse; Ken Venturi, golfer (d. 2013) May 16. Jack Dodson, actor (d. 1994)
1931 – Japanese invasion of Manchuria, start of World War II in the Pacific. 1931 – The Whitney Museum of American Art opens to the public in New York City. 1931 - “The Star-Spangled Banner” becomes official U.S. national anthem; 1931 - Hoover vetoes Veteran Bonus; 1931 - Pearl Buck publishes The Good Earth making heroes of the Chinese ...
Social worker and activist; founder of Hull House; first American woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1931) Lived and died in Chicago [64] Saul Bellow: Jun 10, 1915: Apr 5, 2005: Author; Nobel laureate in Literature (1976); Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1976) Grew up in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago [65] Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ...
Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).
Joan Berkowitz (1931–2020) – chemist; A. R. Bernard (born 1953) – pastor and founder of the Christian Cultural Center; Walter Berndt (1899–1979) – cartoonist; Hannah Berner (born 1991) – comedian; Mike Berniker (1935–2008) – record producer; Karen Bernod (born 1964) – R&B vocalist, songwriter and producer
Gil Mellé (1931–2004), recording artist, songwriter, jazz musician and composer whose score for The Andromeda Strain was the first all-electronic film score (B) [94] Christina Milian (born 1981), actress and recording artist (B) [95]