List of Famous people who born in 1931

Kenneth Earl Burrell is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on the Blue Note label, as well as numerous other top jazz labels such as Prestige, Argo, Verve, Cadet, CTI, Muse, and Concord. His collaborations with Jimmy Smith were notable, and produced the 1965 Billboard Top Twenty hit Verve album Organ Grinder Swing. He has cited jazz guitarists Charlie Christian, Oscar Moore, and Django Reinhardt as influences, along with blues guitarists T-Bone Walker and Muddy Waters.

Murad Magomedovich Kajlayev is a well-known Soviet and Dagestani composer and conductor, People's Artist of the USSR (1981), laureate of international premiums and contests, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Great Academic Concert Orchestra named after Silantyev, professor and academician at Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

Jacques Francis Albert Pierre Miller AC FRS FAA is a French-Australian research scientist. He is known for having discovered the function of the thymus and for the identification, in mammalian species of the two major subsets of lymphocytes and their function.