On This Day — August 31
3891 noted people were born and 1758 died on August 31 in our archive, including Aleksandr Arbuzov, Bernard Lovell and Edward Thorndike.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on August 31
Aleksandr Arbuzov
1877 – 1968
Bernard Lovell
1913 – 2012
Edward Thorndike
1874 – 1949
Hermann von Helmholtz
1821 – 1894
Joël Mesot
b. 1964
Alan Johnstone
1858 – 1932
Anne McLellan
b. 1950
David Gruen
b. 1954
Didrik Arup Seip
1884 – 1963
Edward Laumann
b. 1938
Edwy Plenel
b. 1952
Fethi Benslama
b. 1951
Georg von Hertling
1843 – 1919
George Sarton
1884 – 1956
Heinrich Ernst Beyrich
1815 – 1896
Herbert Reul
b. 1952
Herbert Westren Turnbull
1885 – 1961
Hugh David Politzer
b. 1949
Jonathan A. Eisen
b. 1968
Joris Helleputte
1852 – 1925
Maria Elena Montessori
1870 – 1952
Martin Bell
b. 1938
Michel Eugène Chevreul
1786 – 1889
Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud
b. 1985
Otto Dietrich
1897 – 1952
Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford
1780 – 1855
Queen Rania of Jordan
b. 1970
Raymond Ranjeva
b. 1942
Robert Bacher
1905 – 2004
Robert Hanbury Brown
1916 – 2002
Robert Richardson Sears
1908 – 1989
Shubha Tole
b. 1967
Tsai Ing-wen
b. 1956
Éric Zemmour
b. 1958
Achille Clarac
1903 – 1999
Adolf Pinner
1842 – 1909
Alain Calmat
b. 1940
Alanis Obomsawin
b. 1932
Alexander Rosenberg
b. 1946
Alexei Uchitel
b. 1951
Amilcare Ponchielli
1834 – 1886
Anna Triandafyllidou
b. 1968
Augustus F. Hawkins
1907 – 2007
Baey Yam Keng
b. 1970
Bernhard Eitel
b. 1959
Brigid Leventhal
1935 – 1994
Christopher Herrod
b. 1965
Clifton Bledsoe Cates
1893 – 1970
Dan Deșliu
1927 – 1992
Daniel Harding
b. 1975
David Blumenthal
b. 1948
David Hosack
1769 – 1835
Debbie Hewitt
b. 1963
Dennis Tan Lip Fong
b. 1970
Dominique Desanti
1914 – 2011
Don Beaven
1924 – 2009
Dore Schary
1905 – 1980
Doug McAdam
b. 1951
Edward Wilson Merrill
1923 – 2020
Eisuke Mori
b. 1948
Emil Georg Bührle
1890 – 1956
Emperor Taishō
1879 – 1926
Enrique Gaviola
1900 – 1989
Erik Palmén
1898 – 1985
Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
1871 – 1955
Ernst-Reinhard Beck
b. 1945
Eugenio Trías Sagnier
1942 – 2013
Everett Lee
1916 – 2022
Ferenc Fejtő
1909 – 2008
Fernando Abril Martorell
1936 – 1998
Francesco Marmaggi
1870 – 1949
Frank Cameron Jackson
b. 1943
Fyodor Avelan
1839 – 1916
George Edwin MacLean
1850 – 1938
Gerrit Glas
b. 1954
Gheorghe Flondor
1892 – 1976
Ginés González García
1945 – 2024
Giovanni Verga
1840 – 1922
Hans-Adolf Prützmann
1901 – 1945
Harry Bedford
1877 – 1918
Harry Notenboom
1926 – 2023
Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze
1880 – 1964
Helmut Panke
b. 1946
Henrik Edoyan
b. 1940
Henry Delvaux de Fenffe
1863 – 1947
Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
1832 – 1913
Herzl Berger
1904 – 1962
Hiroshi Ogushi
b. 1965
Horace Avory
1851 – 1935
Hugh Harman
1903 – 1982
Husam Zomlot
b. 1973
Iris Sommer
b. 1970
Itzhak Perlman
b. 1945
Ivey Foreman Lewis
1882 – 1964
Jacques Loew
1908 – 1999
Jaime Sin
1928 – 2005
James Prioleau Richards
1894 – 1979
Jan de Koning
1926 – 1994
Jean Lèques
1931 – 2022
Jean-Christophe Maillot
b. 1960
Jennifer Azzi
b. 1968
Jim Finks
1927 – 1994
Johan August Sandels
1764 – 1831
John Malcolm
1873 – 1954
John Mendelsohn
1936 – 2019
John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar
1807 – 1876
Joost Hoffscholte
b. 1942
Josi Meier
1926 – 2006
José Manuel Restrepo
b. 1970
Juan Ciscomani
b. 1982
Julie Maxton
b. 1955
Kiyokata Kaburaki
1878 – 1972
Latif Gandilov
b. 1957
Leonid Ivashov
b. 1943
Lily Laskine
1893 – 1988
Lorenzo Thomas
1944 – 2005
Louis Wolowski
1810 – 1876
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
b. 1947
Mamadou Ismaïla Konate
b. 1963
Margaret Walshaw
b. 1950
Martin Černohorský
1923 – 2024
Marva Collins
1936 – 2015
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi
1842 – 1906
Matti Klinge
1936 – 2023
Mauricio Valiente
b. 1966
Max Dale Cooper
b. 1933
Micah Altman
b. 1967
Michael Linhart
b. 1958
Neagu Djuvara
1916 – 2018
Nurlan Nyghmatulin
b. 1962
Oswald Heer
1809 – 1883
Paul Edward Garber
1899 – 1992
Pavel Vinogradov
b. 1953
Pedro Solbes
1942 – 2023
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede
b. 1968
Peter McCall
1809 – 1880
Philippe Brassac
b. 1959
Philippe Vasseur
b. 1943
Povl Bentzon
1858 – 1943
Raimondo Tommaso D'Aronco
1857 – 1932
Ramon Magsaysay
1907 – 1957
Raymond Williams
1921 – 1988
Rick Francona
b. 1951
Robert Kocharyan
b. 1954
Robert Thomas Jenkins
1881 – 1969
Roman Smoluchowski
1910 – 1996
Roy Bucher
1895 – 1980
Sabeeha Merchant
b. 1959
Sally Dawson
b. 1955
Somchai Wongsawat
b. 1947
Stephen McKinley Henderson
b. 1949
Tadashi Kuranari
1918 – 1996
Takahiro Tamura
1928 – 2006
Ted Wheeler
b. 1962
Thierry Jordan
b. 1943
Thomas Reynolds-Moreton, 1st Earl of Ducie
1776 – 1840
Thomas Suozzi
b. 1962
Thomas Wharton
1614 – 1673
Tim Berra
b. 1943
Tineke Postma
b. 1978
Valeriy Konovalyuk
b. 1966
Vladimir Norov
b. 1955
William DeWitt, Jr.
b. 1941
William Marx
b. 1966
William Willis
1794 – 1870
Yaacov Sussman
b. 1931
Yuri Ivanenko
b. 1966
Édouard Stephan
1837 – 1923
A. W. Pryor
1928 – 2014
Aarudhra
1925 – 1998
Abel Bergaigne
1838 – 1888
Adam Koc
1891 – 1969
Adam Laxalt
b. 1978
Ahmed Zayat
b. 1962
Aida Delgado-Colón
b. 1955
Al Haynes
1931 – 2019
Alan Jay Lerner
1918 – 1986
Albert Facey
1894 – 1982
Albert L. Smith, Jr.
1931 – 1997
Aleksa Jovanović
1846 – 1920
Aleksandar Lilov
1933 – 2013
Alex Barcello
b. 1998
Alexander Bashilov
1777 – 1849
Alexander Koshetz
1875 – 1944
Alexander Zarudny
1863 – 1934
Alfred Blomfield
1833 – 1894
Alfred O. P. Nicholson
1808 – 1876
Ali Sabri
1920 – 1991
Allan Fotheringham
1932 – 2020
Altiero Spinelli
1907 – 1986
Amrita Pritam
1919 – 2005
Amédée Willot
1755 – 1823
Andrea Boragno
b. 1950
Ann Coffey
b. 1946
Anna Vaccarella
b. 1968
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury
1869 – 1961
Anthony Musgrave
1828 – 1888
Anupam Saraph
b. 1961
Archduke Anton Victor of Austria
1779 – 1835
Arthur Godfrey
1903 – 1983
… and 3,691 more
Died on August 31
Douglas B. Lenat
1950 – 2023
Erwin Bälz
1849 – 1913
George Porter
1920 – 2002
Harold Marshall
1931 – 2024
John Keill
1671 – 1721
Alfred Hettner
1859 – 1941
André Weiss
1858 – 1928
André-Louis Debierne
1874 – 1949
Carlo Maria Martini
1927 – 2012
David Frost
1939 – 2013
Edith Picton-Turbervill
1872 – 1960
Frank B. McDonald
1925 – 2012
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
1899 – 1985
Geneviève Thibault de Chambure
1902 – 1975
Gottlieb Jakob Planck
1751 – 1833
Gérard Worms
1936 – 2020
Joseph Rotblat
1908 – 2005
Karl Ludwig Harding
1765 – 1834
Pranab Mukherjee
1935 – 2020
Robert Torrens
1814 – 1884
Stefan Banach
1892 – 1945
Thomas Bavin
1874 – 1941
Vladimir Shkodrov
1930 – 2010
Wilhelm Wundt
1832 – 1920
Abderrashid Ibrahim
1857 – 1944
Agnes de Selincourt
1872 – 1917
Albert Heim
1849 – 1937
Albert Jamil Butros
1934 – 2021
Aleksandr Zakharchenko
1976 – 2018
Alexander Yefimov
1923 – 2012
Alexei Ukhtomsky
1875 – 1942
André-Louis Cholesky
1875 – 1918
Barry Flanagan
1941 – 2009
Bernadotte Perrin
1847 – 1920
Carl Isidor Cori
1865 – 1954
Charles L. Weltner
1927 – 1992
Charles-Hubert Perrault
1922 – 2019
Clifford Herschel Moore
1866 – 1931
Dmitri Zelenin
1878 – 1954
Doris Calloway
1923 – 2001
Eduard Meyer
1855 – 1930
Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu
1926 – 2015
Elco Brinkman
1948 – 2026
Ernest Lundeen
1878 – 1940
Everard Home
1756 – 1832
Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski
1885 – 1962
Ferdinand Lassalle
1825 – 1864
George Husband Baird MacLeod
1828 – 1892
George Piranian
1914 – 2009
Gertrud Luckner
1900 – 1995
Henri Leclerc
1934 – 2024
Henry V of England
1386 – 1422
Ilya Ehrenburg
1891 – 1967
Immanuel Wallerstein
1930 – 2019
Imre Steindl
1839 – 1902
Ioannis Kolettis
1773 – 1847
J. Erik Jonsson
1901 – 1995
James Luce Kingsley
1778 – 1852
John Blair Jr.
1732 – 1800
John Ford
1894 – 1973
John Marius Opitz
1935 – 2023
Jorge Alessandri
1896 – 1986
Joseph Brugère
1841 – 1918
Lars Stigzelius
1598 – 1676
Leslie Green
1875 – 1908
Lewis Knudson
1884 – 1958
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
1729 – 1811
Lucille Fletcher
1912 – 2000
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
1922 – 2018
Léon Diguet
1859 – 1926
Magnus Georg Paucker
1787 – 1855
Marcel Planiol
1853 – 1931
Martin Kamen
1913 – 2002
Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky
1796 – 1866
Morris Ginsberg
1889 – 1970
Myron Tribus
1921 – 2016
Nicolas-Henri Jardin
1720 – 1799
Nigel Kalton
1946 – 2010
Norbert Klein
1956 – 2021
Ottmar Gerster
1897 – 1969
Pavel Tigrid
1917 – 2003
Percy MacKaye
1875 – 1956
Pietro Pavesi
1844 – 1907
Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
1825 – 1901
Ralston Paterson
1897 – 1981
Richard Bouwens van der Boijen
1863 – 1939
Robert Murray Smith
1831 – 1921
Roman Malinowski
1935 – 2021
Ryszard Czerniawski
1952 – 2019
Sergey Sokolov
1911 – 2012
Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet
1748 – 1817
Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai
1901 – 1950
Sydney Meshkov
1927 – 2020
Urho Kekkonen
1900 – 1986
Wendell Berry
1934 – 2026
Willem Anne Assueer Jacob Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
1834 – 1889
William Adams
1807 – 1880
Włodzimierz Brus
1921 – 2007
Yves Nat
1890 – 1956
Čestmír Řanda
1923 – 1986
A. A. Rahim
1920 – 1995
Albert C. Baker
1845 – 1921
Albert Francis Hegenberger
1895 – 1983
Aleksandr Krymov
1871 – 1917
Alfred Lee Bulwinkle
1883 – 1950
Andrei Zhdanov
1896 – 1948
Antoine-Léonard de Chézy
1773 – 1832
Arnold Oberschelp
1932 – 2024
Arthur Haworth
1865 – 1944
Arthur Herbert
1855 – 1921
Arthur Phillip
1738 – 1814
Arthur St. Clair
1737 – 1818
B. Daniel Riley
1946 – 2016
Bapu
1933 – 2014
Barthélemy-Prosper Enfantin
1796 – 1864
Beant Singh
1922 – 1995
Bill Larkin
1928 – 2019
Boris Kovzan
1922 – 1985
Carl Theodor Albrecht
1843 – 1915
Carlo Fadda
1853 – 1931
Charles Baudelaire
1821 – 1867
Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk
1720 – 1786
Charles Young
1795 – 1869
Charles-Philippe Larivière
1798 – 1899
Connie Hill
1918 – 2001
Daniel Anthony Manion
1942 – 2024
David Hunter
1905 – 1981
Diana, Princess of Wales
1961 – 1997
Diego Ventaja Milán
1880 – 1936
Dodi Fayed
1955 – 1997
Domingo Liotta
1924 – 2022
Donald C. Bruce
1921 – 1969
Edgar Cowan
1815 – 1885
Edward Bechly
1874 – 1945
Edward Elmer Smith
1890 – 1965
Edward J. York
1912 – 1984
Edward P. King
1884 – 1958
Elmar Pieroth
1934 – 2018
Ely S. Parker
1828 – 1895
Esther Pohl Lovejoy
1869 – 1967
Eugène Antoine François Merlin
1778 – 1854
Eugène Eschassériaux
1823 – 1906
Evgeny Yakovlevich Remez
1896 – 1975
Francis Bevan
1840 – 1919
Francis Granger
1792 – 1868
Frederick H. Mueller
1893 – 1976
Friedrich Syrup
1881 – 1945
George Hairston Jamerson
1869 – 1960
George Leonard Trager
1906 – 1992
Georges Braque
1882 – 1963
Gianna Manzini
1896 – 1974
Gopal Swarup Pathak
1896 – 1982
Greenwood LeFlore
1800 – 1865
Hakon Magne Valdemar Wrangell
1859 – 1942
Hans A. Linde
1924 – 2020
Hans Wimmer
1907 – 1992
Heinrich Simroth
1851 – 1917
Henri Bourassa
1868 – 1952
Henry G. Schermers
1928 – 2006
Henry Moore
1898 – 1986
Horst Janssen
1929 – 1995
Huang Shaoxiong
1895 – 1966
Hubert-Joseph Henry
1846 – 1898
Isidor Neumann
1832 – 1906
James Brian Tait
1916 – 2007
James Brown Mason
1775 – 1819
James Currie
1756 – 1805
James Hall
1802 – 1889
James Laurence Carew
1853 – 1903
Jennings Cox
1866 – 1913
Joaquín Milans del Bosch
1853 – 1936
Joel K. Gustafson
1937 – 2021
Johann Freinsheim
1608 – 1660
Johann Gottlieb Heineccius
1681 – 1741
Johannes Classen
1805 – 1891
John A. Carroll
1901 – 1983
John Aidan Liddell
1888 – 1915
John Alexander Simpson
1916 – 2000
John Bennet Lawes
1814 – 1900
John C. Burch
1826 – 1885
John Curtis Caldwell
1833 – 1912
John Darley
1938 – 2018
John Green
1807 – 1887
John Grider Miller
1935 – 2009
John H. Rush
1874 – 1958
John Parker
1798 – 1860
Jonathan Belcher
1682 – 1757
Kazimieras Motieka
1929 – 2021
Kazimierz Czartoryski
1674 – 1741
Ke Shaomin
1850 – 1933
Kenneth Mubu
Laurent Fignon
1960 – 2010
Lewis Weston Dillwyn
1778 – 1855
Lionel Hampton
1908 – 2002
Lionel Troughton
1879 – 1933
Louis I of Spain
1707 – 1724
Louis Tauzin
1842 – 1915
Luisa Landová-Štychová
1885 – 1969
M. Waldo Hatler
1894 – 1967
Man Mohan Sinha
1933 – 2018
… and 1,558 more