List of Famous people who died in 1931

Friedrich Johann Karl Becke was an Austrian mineralogist and petrographer.

Edward Goodrich Acheson was an American chemist. Born in Washington, Pennsylvania, he was the inventor of the Acheson process, which is still used to make Silicon carbide (carborundum) and later a manufacturer of carborundum and graphite.

Martin Feuerstein was a German painter and art teacher. He was a late adherent of the Nazarene movement, but was also heavily influenced by impressionism and Art Nouveau.

Octave Uzanne was a 19th-century French bibliophile, writer, publisher, and journalist.

Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, DL was a prominent Englishman who owned land in Scotland and sportsman, best known for the controversy surrounding his escape from the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

Basilio Pompili was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Vicar General of Rome from 1913 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1911.

Ernst Wilhelm Engelhardt Ritter Seidler von Feuchtenegg was an Austrian statesman. He served as Minister-President of Austria from 1917 until 1918. His daughter was the actress Alma Seidler.