List of Famous people who died in 1931

Walter Alexander Charles Lethbridge

First Name Walter
Last Name Lethbridge
Born on October 4, 1865
Died on January 3, 1931 (aged 65)
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Montagu Benyon Templer Lethbridge

First Name Montagu
Last Name Lethbridge
Born on September 8, 1902
Died on September 30, 1931 (aged 29)
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Hugh Fortescue Basset

First Name Hugh
Born on June 3, 1881
Died on March 29, 1931 (aged 49)
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Marion Mathilde Schwabe

First Name Marion
Last Name Schwabe
Born on March 25, 1857
Died on April 10, 1931 (aged 74)
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Helen Rachel Louisa Simpson

First Name Helen
Last Name Simpson
Died on October 16, 1931
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William Rush Merriam

First Name William
Last Name Merriam
Born on July 26, 1849
Died on February 18, 1931 (aged 81)

William Rush Merriam was an American politician.

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Ladislaus Bortkiewicz

Владислав Иосифович Борткевич‏
First Name Ladislaus
Born on August 7, 1868
Died on July 15, 1931 (aged 62)
Born in Russia

Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish ancestry. He wrote a book showing how the Poisson distribution, a discrete probability distribution, can be useful in applied statistics, and he made contributions to mathematical economics. He lived most of his professional life in Germany, where he taught at Strassburg University and Berlin University (1901–1931).

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Wilhelm Exner

First Name Wilhelm
Last Name Exner
Born on April 9, 1840
Died on May 25, 1931 (aged 91)

Wilhelm Franz Exner was former president of the Austrian Business Association and initiator of the Wilhelm Exner Medal.

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Carl von Bach

First Name Carl
Last Name Bach
Born on March 8, 1847
Died on October 10, 1931 (aged 84)
Born in Germany, Saxony
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William D. Jelks

First Name William
Last Name Jelks
Born on November 7, 1855
Died on December 13, 1931 (aged 76)

William Dorsey Jelks was an American newspaper editor, publisher, and politician who served as the 32nd Governor of Alabama from 1901 to 1907. As Lieutenant Governor of Alabama, he also served as acting governor between December 1 and December 26, 1900 when Governor William J. Samford was out-of-state seeking medical treatment.

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