1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday in the Gregorian calendar, the 1931st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 931st year of the 2nd millennium, the 31st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1930s decade

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1900s  1910s  1920s  – 1930s –  1940s  1950s  1960s
Years: 1928 1929 193019311932 1933 1934
1931 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1931
MCMXXXI
Ab urbe condita2684
Armenian calendar1380
ԹՎ ՌՅՁ
Assyrian calendar6681
Bahá'í calendar87–88
Balinese saka calendar1852–1853
Bengali calendar1338
Berber calendar2881
British Regnal year21 Geo. 5 – 22 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar2475
Burmese calendar1293
Byzantine calendar7439–7440
Chinese calendar庚午(Metal Horse)
4627 or 4567
    — to —
辛未年 (Metal Goat)
4628 or 4568
Coptic calendar1647–1648
Discordian calendar3097
Ethiopian calendar1923–1924
Hebrew calendar5691–5692
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1987–1988
 - Shaka Samvat1852–1853
 - Kali Yuga5031–5032
Holocene calendar11931
Igbo calendar931–932
Iranian calendar1309–1310
Islamic calendar1349–1350
Japanese calendarShōwa 6
(昭和6年)
Javanese calendar1861–1862
Juche calendar20
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4264
Minguo calendarROC 20
民國20年
Nanakshahi calendar463
Thai solar calendar2473–2474
Tibetan calendar阳金马年
(male Iron-Horse)
2057 or 1676 or 904
    — to —
阴金羊年
(female Iron-Goat)
2058 or 1677 or 905

Events

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Ferdinand Porsche holding a steering wheel

Births

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January

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Toshiki Kaifu
 
Johannes Rau
 
Sam Cooke

February

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Iajuddin Ahmed
 
Boris Yeltsin

August

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September

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Ian Holm
 
George Jones
 
Anita Ekberg

October

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John le Carré
 
Rubens de Falco
 
Mickey Mantle

November

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Monica Vitti
 
Mwai Kibaki

December

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Deaths

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Anna Pavlova

Nobel Prizes

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Movies released

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Norma Shearer

References

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  1. BBC History, July 2011, p12.
  2. "Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site". Aviation: From Sand Dunes To Sonic Booms. National Park Service. Retrieved 22 December 2016.