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<html> <head> <title>Died in 1931</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Died in 1931 LISTS <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_grunk"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/711/000178177/">David Abercrombie</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1867</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Aug-1931</tt></td> <td>Founder of Abercrombie & Fitch</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/335/000129945/">Edward G. Acheson</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1856</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jul-1931</tt></td> <td>Discovered silicon carbide</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/172/000173650/">Art Acord</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Apr-1890</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jan-1931</tt></td> <td>Cowboy actor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/010/000160527/">Stephen Babcock</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Oct-1843</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jul-1931</tt></td> <td>Chemistry of milk</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/221/000134816/">George F. Baker</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Mar-1840</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-May-1931</tt></td> <td>"None of the public's business"</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/162/000115814/">Bix Beiderbecke</a></td> <td><center>Jazz Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Mar-1903</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Aug-1931</tt></td> <td>Celebrated jazz cornetist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/669/000048525/">David Belasco</a></td> <td><center>Playwright</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jul-1853</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-May-1931</tt></td> <td>Madame Butterfly</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/421/000079184/">Arnold Bennett</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-May-1867</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Mar-1931</tt></td> <td>Five Towns novels</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/293/000205675/">Buddy Bolden</a></td> <td><center>Jazz Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Sep-1877</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Nov-1931</tt></td> <td>Ragtime, pre-Jazz cornetist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/475/000099178/">Edward Channing</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jun-1856</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jan-1931</tt></td> <td>A History of the United States</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/389/000093110/">Vincent d'Indy</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Mar-1851</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Dec-1931</tt></td> <td>Symphonie Cévenole</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/025/000031929/">Melvil Dewey</a></td> <td><center>Curator</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Dec-1851</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Dec-1931</tt></td> <td>Dewey Decimal System</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/333/000022267/">Thomas Edison</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Feb-1847</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Oct-1931</tt></td> <td>Invented the light bulb</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/660/000210030/">Frank C. Emerson</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Feb-1931</tt></td> <td>Governor of Wyoming, 1927-31</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/143/000206522/">Daniel Chester French</a></td> <td><center>Sculptor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Apr-1850</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Oct-1931</tt></td> <td>Lincoln Memorial</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/359/000114017/">Khalil Gibran</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jan-1883</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Apr-1931</tt></td> <td>The Prophet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/500/000116152/">Frank Harris</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Feb-1856</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Aug-1931</tt></td> <td>My Life and Loves</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/946/000177415/">August Herrmann</a></td> <td><center>Baseball</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-May-1859</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Apr-1931</tt></td> <td>Commissioner of Baseball, 1903-20</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/409/000165911/">David Starr Jordan</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jan-1851</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Sep-1931</tt></td> <td>Fishes of North and Middle America</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/178/000139758/">Erik Axel Karlfeldt</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jul-1864</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1931</tt></td> <td>Songs of the wilderness and love</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/860/000209233/">Frederick W. Lehmann</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-1853</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Sep-1931</tt></td> <td>US Solicitor General, 1910-12</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/274/000048130/">Vachel Lindsay</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Nov-1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-1931</tt></td> <td>The Congo and Other Poems</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/150/000115802/">Nicholas Longworth</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1869</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Apr-1931</tt></td> <td>Congressman from Ohio, 1903-31</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/610/000168106/">Charles MacVeagh</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Dec-1931</tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Japan, 1925-28</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/315/000112976/">Salvatore Maranzano</a></td> <td><center>Criminal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1868</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1931</tt></td> <td>Capo di tutti capi</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/314/000112975/">Joe Masseria</a></td> <td><center>Criminal</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1879</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Apr-1931</tt></td> <td>NY mobster, killed by Luciano</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/003/000113661/">George Herbert Mead</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Feb-1863</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Apr-1931</tt></td> <td>Pragmatist, social behaviorist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/771/000206153/">Nellie Melba</a></td> <td><center>Singer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-May-1861</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Feb-1931</tt></td> <td>Operatic soprano</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/155/000176624/">André Michelin</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Jan-1853</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Apr-1931</tt></td> <td>Founder of Michelin Group</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/501/000099204/">Albert A. Michelson</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Dec-1852</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-May-1931</tt></td> <td>Measured the speed of light</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/867/000171354/">Oskar Minkowski</a></td> <td><center>Doctor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jan-1858</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jul-1931</tt></td> <td>Linked pancreas to diabetes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/435/000176904/">Dwight Morrow</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jan-1873</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Oct-1931</tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Mexico, 1927-30</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/761/000089494/">Hermann Mueller</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Mar-1931</tt></td> <td>German Chancellor 1920, 1928-30</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/172/000119812/">F. W. Murnau</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Mar-1931</tt></td> <td>Nosferatu, Sunrise</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/592/000093313/">Carl Nielsen</a></td> <td><center>Composer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jun-1865</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Oct-1931</tt></td> <td>The Four Temperaments</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/774/000141351/">Hamaguchi Osachi</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Apr-1870</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Aug-1931</tt></td> <td>Prime Minister of Japan, 1929-31</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/920/000271107/">Anna Pavlova</a></td> <td><center>Dancer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Feb-1881</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jan-1931</tt></td> <td>Early 20th century Russian ballerina</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/144/000087880/">Geli Raubal</a></td> <td><center>Relative</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jun-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Sep-1931</tt></td> <td>Hitler's niece</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/068/000084813/">Knute Rockne</a></td> <td><center>Football</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Mar-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Mar-1931</tt></td> <td>Notre Dame Head Coach, 1918-30</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/743/000114401/">O. E. Rölvaag</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Apr-1876</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1931</tt></td> <td>Giants in the Earth</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/344/000115996/">Arthur Schnitzler</a></td> <td><center>Playwright</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-May-1862</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Oct-1931</tt></td> <td>Reigen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/881/000165386/">E. 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