List of Famous people who died in 1931

Ludwig Joseph Brentano was an eminent German economist and social reformer.

Milo George Talbot CB was an Irish first-class cricketer and army officer. The son of the 4th Baron Talbot of Malahide, he attended Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich before being commissioned as an officer in the British Army's Royal Engineers. Shortly afterwards he played the sole first-class cricket match of his career for the Gentlemen of the South against the Players of the North. Talbot served on the staff of General Ross during the Second Anglo-Afghan War and remained in that country as a member of the Afghan Boundary Commission. He returned to Britain as a staff officer before returning to active duty during the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan. During this time he was present at the Battle of Omdurman and served on secondment to the Egyptian Army as a Major-General. Talbot retired in 1905 but was recalled to duty during the First World War when he gave advice on plans for the Gallipoli Campaign and the defence of Sudan.

Adolphe Stern was a Jewish-Romanian lawyer and politician.

Sir Francis Salwey Winnington, 5th Baronet DL JP was an English baronet.

Sir James Balfour Paul was the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the officer responsible for heraldry in Scotland, from 1890 until the end of 1926.

Enno Friedrich Wichard Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff was a German classical philologist. Wilamowitz, as he is known in scholarly circles, was a renowned authority on Ancient Greece and its literature.

Frederick Augustus II was the last ruling Grand Duke of Oldenburg. He married Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia, daughter of Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau and Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia. After her death, he married Elisabeth Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

John Jackson (1861–1931) was the first manager and a founder of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.

Anne Maria Barkly, Lady Barkly was a British botanist active in the flora of Mauritius and South Africa.

Walter Courvoisier was a Swiss composer.