List of Famous people born on May 31st

Allen Bert Christman, known professionally as Bert Christman, was an American cartoonist and naval aviator. He is best known as artist of the newspaper comic strip Scorchy Smith, about a pilot-adventurer in the inter-war years. He was also credited with co-creating the original, Wesley Dodds version of the DC Comics character the Sandman.

Helmut Müller is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He has been the mayor of Wiesbaden from 2007 to 2013.

Tian Jiyun is a politician in the People's Republic of China, known as a supporter of Deng Xiaoping's reforms. The best-known feature of his biography is the speech of 1992, delivered in the Central Party School, in which he ridicules the "leftists". Tian proposed they establish their own "economic zones" preserving all the worst features of the old system.