List of Famous people who died in 1931

Tom Barry was a vaudeville sketch writer, playwright and screenwriter. He was nominated for two Oscars for Best Screenplay, for In Old Arizona and The Valiant at the 2nd Academy Awards.

Paul Antonin Vidal was a French composer, conductor and music teacher mainly active in Paris.

Willy Spatz was a German painter and lithographer.

Manfred Berliner was a German business teacher.

Friedrich Wilhelm Semmler was a German chemist.

Heinrich Wieleitner was a German mathematician and historian of mathematics. He became an honorary professor of mathematics at the University of Munich but for much of his career worked in school- and college-level education.

Marie Lehmann was a German operatic soprano. She had a coloratura soprano voice, but also appeared in Wagner operas, including the first complete performance of his Der Ring des Nibelungen at the inaugural Bayreuth Festival in 1876, playing one of the Rhinemaidens.