Curated category
1931 births
- Rupert MurdochKeith Rupert Murdoch arrived in the world on the 11th of March 1931 within the city of Melbourne, Victoria. He was the second child born to Sir Keith Arthur…
- Yasuo ŌtsukaYasuo Otsuka was born in Shimane Prefecture during the early 1930s. At age 10, he visited Tsuwano and saw a steam locomotive for the first time.
- Sam CookeSamuel Cook arrived in Clarksdale, Mississippi, on the 22nd of January 1931. He was the fifth child born to Reverend Charles Cook and Annie Mae Carroll.
- Mikhail GorbachevMikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on the 2nd of March 1931 in Privolnoye, a small village in the North Caucasus region of what is now Russia.
- Jack SwigertJohn Leonard Swigert Jr. was born on the 30th of August 1931, in Denver, Colorado to parents Dr. John Leonard Swigert Sr. and Virginia Anne Swigert.
- Larry LieberLawrence D. Lieber arrived in Manhattan on the 26th of October 1931 to parents Celia and Jack Lieber, Romanian-Jewish immigrants who had built a life in New…
- Allen KleinAllen Klein was born on the 18th of December 1931 in Newark, New Jersey. He grew up as the fourth child and only son of Jewish immigrants.
- Tommy Moore (musician)Thomas Henry Moore entered the world on the 12th of September 1931 in Liverpool. He worked as a fork-lift truck driver while playing drums part-time.
- Boris YeltsinBoris Yeltsin was born on the 1st of February 1931 in the village of Butka, Ural Oblast. His family had lived in this area of the Urals since at least the…
- David Seyfort RueggDavid Seyfort Ruegg stood before the École des Hautes Etudes in 1957 to receive his degrees. He earned a degree in historical science and another in Sanskrit…
- Sofia GubaidulinaOn the 24th of October 1931, a girl named Sofia Gubaidulina was born in the city of Chistopol within the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- Eric IvesEric William Ives entered the world on the 12th of July 1931 in Romford, Essex. He grew up within a Plymouth Brethren family that shaped his early years.
- Barbara LevickBarbara Mary Levick entered the world on the 21st of June 1931 in London. Her father was Frank Thomas Levick and her mother was Mary Smart.
- Walter BurkertWalter Burkert was born in Neuendettelsau on the 2nd of February 1931. He began his studies at the Universities of Erlangen and Munich between 1950 and 1954.
- Irvin D. YalomIrvin David Yalom was born on the 13th of June 1931 in Washington, D.C. His Jewish parents had emigrated from Belarus about fifteen years before his birth.
- E. L. DoctorowEdgar Lawrence Doctorow was born on the 6th of January 1931 in the Bronx. His parents were Rose and David Richard Doctorow, second-generation Americans of…
- Irfan HabibIrfan Habib was born on the 12th of August 1931 into a prominent Indian Muslim family. His father Mohammad Habib and mother Sohaila Tyabji came from lineages…
- Mário ZagalloMário Jorge Lobo Zagallo entered the world on the 9th of August 1931 in Atalaia, a small town within the state of Alagoas.
- Colin WilsonColin Henry Wilson was born on the 26th of June 1931 in Leicester. His father worked in a shoe factory while his mother managed their household.