List of Famous people who died in 1931

Henri Desfontaines was a French film director, actor, and scriptwriter.

Clément Armand Fallières was a French statesman who was President of France from 1906 to 1913.

Otto Winter-Hjelm was a Norwegian musician, conductor, writer, composer and music critic.

Edward Robinson was an American writer and authority on art.

Ferdinand Marie Auguste Baston, Count de Lariboisière was a French military officer and politician. He served as mayor of Louvigné-du-Désert, and as a general councillor, deputy, and senator of Ille-et-Vilaine. He was appointed as a chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

Frédéric Paulhan was a French philosopher. He came from a family of merchants of Huguenot ancestry, and was a brilliant student at school in Nîmes. He left without graduating, and spent a few years without a recognised profession, studying and writing and developing an interest in philosophy and Republican political movements. In 1877 Paulhan contributed to the Revue Philosophique of Théodule Ribot. Paulhan became liable for military service when his assigned number was drawn in a lottery, but he was released from serving because of his stutter, which also made it difficult for him to teach.

Gaspar Rosés i Arus was a Catalan politician. He was MP for the Regionalist League in Arenys de Mar in the Spanish general election, 1918. He later became President of FC Barcelona in 1916–1917, 1920–1921 and 1930-1931 elected by the members. During his third term as President the founder of Barcelona, Joan Gamper, committed suicide.

George Henry Westmore was an English hairdresser who emigrated to the United States with his family, including several relatives who became prominent in Hollywood. Specializing in wig-making, and later make-up, he established the first movie make-up department in 1917. In his youth, he spent eighteen months in the British Army cavalry during the Second Boer War.

Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor and virtuoso. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tsar".

Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher. His influence as a teacher, in particular, was considerable. He was a co-founder of the Schola Cantorum de Paris and also taught at the Paris Conservatoire. His students included Albéric Magnard, Albert Roussel, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, and Erik Satie, as well as Cole Porter.