List of Famous people who died in 1931

Albert Capellani was a French film director and screenwriter of the silent era. He directed films between 1905 and 1922. One of his brothers was the actor-sculptor Paul Capellani, and another, film director Roger Capellani.

Saint Guido Maria Conforti was a Roman Catholic Italian archbishop who founded the Xaverian Missionary Fathers on 3 December 1895. He was known to make frequent visits to his parishes and worked to support the religious education and religious involvement among the youth.

Carl August Nielsen was a Danish composer, conductor and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer.

Edward Emerson Simmons (1852-1931) was an American Impressionist painter, remembered for his mural work.

Baron Carl Nils Daniel Bildt was a Swedish diplomat and historian. He spent most of his Foreign Office career as Swedish envoy in Rome and published extensively on Swedish historical topics relating to Rome and Italy. A son of Gillis Bildt, he inherited the baronial title on his father's death in 1894.

Venerable Elias Peter Hoayek was the 72nd Patriarch of Antioch for the Maronites, the largest Christian Catholic community in the Levant, from 1898 to 1931 when he died.

Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre was a French general who served as Commander-in-Chief of French forces on the Western Front from the start of World War I until the end of 1916. He is best known for regrouping the retreating allied armies to defeat the Germans at the strategically decisive First Battle of the Marne in September 1914.

Sir Michael Henry Lakin, 1st Baronet, JP, DL, was a Warwickshire cement manufacturer who was created a Baronet in 1909.