On This Day — October 31
3697 noted people were born and 1910 died on October 31 in our archive, including G. Madhavan Nair, Sarah Brown and Abraham Wald.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on October 31
G. Madhavan Nair
b. 1943
Sarah Brown
b. 1963
Abraham Wald
1902 – 1950
Adolf Erman
1854 – 1937
Adolf von Baeyer
1835 – 1917
Alfred Sauvy
1898 – 1990
Alison Wolf
b. 1949
Anne Buttimer
1938 – 2017
Avi Shlaim
b. 1945
Carl von Voit
1831 – 1908
Carmen Alborch
1947 – 2018
Daria de Pretis
b. 1956
David Harvey
b. 1935
Edward J. Russell
1872 – 1965
Eluvathingal Devassy Jemmis
b. 1951
Eugeniusz Wyzner
1931 – 2026
Farooq Qaiser
1945 – 2021
Gabriel Popov
b. 1936
Georgy Babakin
1914 – 1971
Herman Van Rompuy
b. 1947
Ihar Lutski
b. 1972
Jean-François Deniau
1928 – 2007
John Pople
1925 – 2004
Joseph Pérès
1890 – 1962
Joseph Wu
b. 1954
János Szentágothai
1912 – 1994
Karl Weierstraß
1815 – 1897
Kate Granger
1981 – 2016
Luis Fortuño
b. 1960
Michael Collins
1930 – 2021
Ming C. Lin
b. 1965
Mogens Jensen
b. 1963
Mu-ming Poo
b. 1948
Nelson Harding
1879 – 1944
Núria López-Bigas
b. 1975
Ollie Johnston
1912 – 2008
Otto Wiesheu
b. 1944
Paul Clemen
1866 – 1947
Paul Frampton
b. 1943
Ronald Graham
1935 – 2020
Abel Matutes
b. 1941
Adelbert Ames
1835 – 1933
Agostino Lanzillo
1886 – 1952
Ahmed Hassanein Pasha
1889 – 1946
Alexander Alekhine
1892 – 1946
Alexander Borodin
1833 – 1887
Alfred Vogt
1879 – 1943
Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta
1729 – 1800
Amos Henry Worthen
1813 – 1888
Anat Cohen
b. 1975
Andrew Sarris
1928 – 2012
András Hegedüs
1922 – 1999
Angela Knight
b. 1950
Anna Geifman
b. 1962
Annette Lykknes
b. 1974
Anthony Bryer
1937 – 2016
Archibald Dennis Flower
1865 – 1950
Asaduzzaman Noor
b. 1946
August Everding
1928 – 1999
B. L. Deekshatulu
b. 1936
Babá
b. 1953
Benoît Fourneyron
1802 – 1867
Carlo Cattaneo
1911 – 1979
Cecil Roberts
b. 1946
Chiang Kai-shek
1887 – 1975
Christopher Bushell
1887 – 1918
Claire Gibault
b. 1945
Cosmo Gordon Lang
1864 – 1945
Dan Rather
b. 1931
Daniel Roth
b. 1942
Deidre Hall
b. 1947
Dennis Gaitsgory
b. 1973
Diarmaid MacCulloch
b. 1951
Didier Stainier
b. 1963
Dieter Seebach
b. 1937
Dimitri Amilakhvari
1906 – 1942
Dmitry Bertman
b. 1967
Dmitry Meskhiev
b. 1963
Donna Traynor
b. 1965
Eduard Daniël van Oort
1876 – 1933
Eduard Kokoity
b. 1964
Ellis Robins, 1st Baron Robins
1884 – 1962
Euan Edworthy
b. 1968
Eugene L. Rogan
b. 1960
Eugène Crosti
1833 – 1908
Evžen Neustupný
1933 – 2021
François d'Aubert
b. 1943
Gennady Volkov
1927 – 2010
George Brizan
1942 – 2012
Gusti Kanjeng Ratu Hemas
b. 1952
Harm Jan Habing
b. 1937
Henning Scherf
b. 1938
Henri Theil
1924 – 2000
Hermann Oldenberg
1854 – 1920
Ian Stevenson
1918 – 2007
Iurie Roșca
b. 1961
James Patrick Sutton
1915 – 2005
James W. Bagley
1881 – 1947
Jerry Kazdan
b. 1937
Jesús Caldera
b. 1957
Joan Robinson
1903 – 1983
Joe West
b. 1952
John Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington
1866 – 1936
Johnny Marr
b. 1963
Jon Bilbao
1914 – 1994
Joseph A. Canning
1882 – 1951
Joseph Boyden
b. 1966
Joseph J. Sisco
1919 – 2004
Joseph Rudolph Grimes
1923 – 2007
Joseph Wright
1855 – 1930
Juan Egaña
1768 – 1836
Juliette Gordon Low
1860 – 1927
Kamiyama Mannoshin
1869 – 1938
Kao Su-po
b. 1968
Kelly D. Brownell
b. 1951
Kirsty Duncan
1966 – 2026
Lars Widding
1924 – 1994
Leif Sevón
b. 1941
Leonor, Princess of Asturias
b. 2005
M S Banga
b. 1954
Marcia Langton
b. 1951
Marjorie Hollond
1895 – 1977
Marko Bezruchko
1883 – 1944
María Eugenia Brizuela de Ávila
b. 1956
Mercedes de la Merced
1960 – 2013
Michael S. Rogers
b. 1959
Miguel Villanueva y Gómez
1852 – 1931
Miroslav Verner
b. 1941
Mohamed Hussein Tantawi
1935 – 2021
Mykhailo Dovbenko
b. 1954
Naji Hakim
b. 1955
Nasser H. Paydar
b. 1956
Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille
b. 1970
Neal Stephenson
b. 1959
Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez
b. 1936
Norodom Sihanouk
1922 – 2012
Peter Aczel
1941 – 2023
Peter Plympton Smith
b. 1945
Pierre-William Glenn
1943 – 2024
Prince Alfred, 3rd Prince of Windisch-Grätz
1851 – 1927
Ramaswamy S
b. 1964
René Saorgin
1928 – 2015
Reza Pahlavi
b. 1960
Richard Morris Hunt
1827 – 1895
Ricky L. Waddell
b. 1959
Robert Blinc
1933 – 2011
Robert E. Smylie
1914 – 2004
Robert M. Utley
1929 – 2022
Robert Manne
b. 1947
Roger D. Carstens
b. 1964
Roger Sherman Loomis
1887 – 1966
Ron S. Jarmin
b. 1964
Roy Romer
b. 1928
Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck
1761 – 1825
Ryotaro Tanose
b. 1943
Samuel Miller
1769 – 1850
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
1875 – 1950
Serhii Bondarchuk
b. 1971
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
b. 1942
Stephen Rea
b. 1946
Susan Ivey
b. 1958
Tadeusz Aziewicz
b. 1960
Theodore Dwight Woolsey
1801 – 1889
Vernon Jones
b. 1960
Viktor Borisov
1937 – 2013
Vito Lattanzio
1926 – 2010
Vlasta Matulová
1918 – 1989
William F. Moran
b. 1958
William Francis Butler
1838 – 1910
William Gibbs McAdoo
1863 – 1941
William Hardy McNeill
1917 – 2016
William Jackson Pope
1870 – 1939
Zaha Hadid
1950 – 2016
Zdzisław Najder
1930 – 2021
Édouard Depreux
1898 – 1981
A. J. Rosier
1880 – 1932
A. K. Khandker
1930 – 2025
A. Walton Litz
1929 – 2014
Aaron Shust
b. 1975
Achille Rivarde
1865 – 1940
Ahmed Naseer
b. 1975
Alejandro Gertz Manero
b. 1939
Aleksey Yakimenko
b. 1983
Allan G. Brodie
1897 – 1976
Alondra de la Parra
b. 1982
Amadou Soumahoro
1953 – 2022
Amanda Lang
b. 1970
Amandus Adamson
1855 – 1929
Andre Owens
b. 1980
Andreas Reuter
b. 1949
Andrew Constance
b. 1973
Andrew Farley
b. 1972
Andrew Norman
b. 1979
Andrew Volstead
1859 – 1947
Angela Maria Guidi Cingolani
1896 – 1991
Angelino Alfano
b. 1970
Anna Missuna
1868 – 1922
Anthony Wilding
1883 – 1915
Antonio Dal Monte
b. 1931
Antonio Taguba
b. 1950
… and 3,497 more
Died on October 31
George Uhlenbeck
1900 – 1988
Qian Xuesen
1911 – 2009
August Chełkowski
1927 – 1999
Bill Rowling
1927 – 1995
Braj Kumar Nehru
1909 – 2001
Catherine Tizard
1931 – 2021
Edmund Aloysius Walsh
1885 – 1956
Enrico Braggiotti
1923 – 2019
Erdal İnönü
1926 – 2007
Fatos Nano
1952 – 2025
Ferdinand Chalandon
1875 – 1921
Francis Simon
1893 – 1956
Harold Caccia, Baron Caccia
1905 – 1990
Hermann Pauly
1870 – 1950
Johann Friedrich Meckel the younger
1781 – 1833
John Pope-Hennessy
1913 – 1994
John Wainwright Evans
1909 – 1999
Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand
1907 – 2000
Ladislas Joseph Meduna
1896 – 1964
Michael Stasinopoulos
1903 – 2002
Mikheil Chiaureli
1894 – 1974
Ralph Vary Chamberlin
1879 – 1967
Robert K. Crane
1919 – 2010
Robert S. Mulliken
1896 – 1986
Samuel Haughton
1821 – 1897
Samuel Pierce
1922 – 2000
Takaoki Sasaki
1878 – 1966
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
1800 – 1867
Adalbert Bezzenberger
1851 – 1922
Adolf Chybiński
1880 – 1952
Albert Dauzat
1877 – 1955
Albert Lilius
1873 – 1947
Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz
1850 – 1921
Alfred Edward Taylor
1869 – 1945
Antonio Scarpa
1747 – 1832
António José de Almeida
1866 – 1929
Armand Mattelart
1936 – 2025
Arthur Ramos
1903 – 1949
Arthur Schüller
1874 – 1957
Augustus John
1878 – 1961
Aurel Vainer
1932 – 2021
Axel Rappe
1884 – 1945
Bernhard Günther
1906 – 1981
Bob Ellicott
1927 – 2022
Burton Levin
1930 – 2016
Charles Albert Plumley
1875 – 1964
Christopher Yelverton
1536 – 1612
David Manker Abshire
1926 – 2014
Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr.
1900 – 1949
Eugène Lefèvre-Pontalis
1862 – 1923
Friedrich Mering
1822 – 1887
George Alexander Macfarren
1813 – 1887
Hans Thomsen
1891 – 1968
Hardit Malik
1894 – 1985
Heinrich Riikoja
1891 – 1988
Henri Royer
1869 – 1938
Henry Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland
1953 – 1995
Henryk Markiewicz
1922 – 2013
Hitoshi Motoshima
1922 – 2014
Ignacy Daszyński
1866 – 1936
Immanuel Jakobovits
1921 – 1999
Indira Gandhi
1917 – 1984
István Tisza
1861 – 1918
Jacques Pierre Brissot
1754 – 1793
James Bernard, 2nd Earl of Bandon
1785 – 1856
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn
1811 – 1885
Jaroslav Hlava
1855 – 1924
Jean Troisier
1881 – 1945
Johan Aschehoug Kiær
1869 – 1931
Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum
1829 – 1890
John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir
1894 – 1954
John Houseman
1902 – 1988
John Joseph Montgomery
1858 – 1911
José Manuel Briceño Guerrero
1929 – 2014
Ken Mattingly
1936 – 2023
Koichi Yamamoto
1947 – 2023
Louis Massignon
1883 – 1962
Ludwik Ehrlich
1889 – 1968
Léopold Survage
1879 – 1968
Mahmoud M. Ayoub
1935 – 2021
Manju Sharma
1940 – 2024
Martha Black
1866 – 1957
Max Fesca
1846 – 1917
Mel Sembler
1930 – 2023
Mikhail Frunze
1885 – 1925
Nikolai Korzhenevskiy
1879 – 1958
Olav Gurvin
1893 – 1974
Oskar Cohn
1869 – 1934
P. W. Botha
1916 – 2006
Paul Dudley White
1886 – 1973
Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony
1850 – 1930
Qanate Kurdo
1909 – 1985
Raj Chandra Bose
1901 – 1987
Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster
1795 – 1869
Richard Neustadt
1919 – 2003
Rudolf Zahradník
1928 – 2020
Salomon van Til
1643 – 1713
Salvador Minuchin
1921 – 2017
Sean Connery
1930 – 2020
Sergio Donadoni
1914 – 2015
Sharof Rashidov
1917 – 1983
Sofron Mudry
1923 – 2014
Ted Sorensen
1928 – 2010
Teodoro Petkoff
1932 – 2018
Theodor Schneider
1911 – 1988
Tony Streather
1926 – 2018
Vito Lattanzio
1926 – 2010
Warren Elliot Henry
1909 – 2001
William O. Baker
1915 – 2005
William Reid
1791 – 1858
Alan Bush
1900 – 1995
Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg
1865 – 1939
Aleksandr Andronov
1901 – 1952
Alexander Macdonald
1821 – 1881
Alexander von Winiwarter
1848 – 1917
Alfonso I d'Este
1476 – 1534
Alfred Pellan
1906 – 1988
Ali Saibou
1940 – 2011
Alphonse Desjardins
1854 – 1920
Amrita Pritam
1919 – 2005
Andres Narvasa
1928 – 2013
Andrzej Zaorski
1942 – 2021
Aneta Szyłak
1959 – 2023
Antoni Jan Goetz
1895 – 1962
Ants Antson
1938 – 2015
Archibald H. Sunderland
1876 – 1963
Art Wall, Jr.
1923 – 2001
Arthur Peterson, Jr.
1912 – 1996
Baruch Charney Vladeck
1886 – 1938
Bernard J. Dwyer
1921 – 1998
Betty Dodson
1929 – 2020
Billy Suter
1874 – 1946
Branco Weiss
1929 – 2010
Brian Tesler
1929 – 2024
Bryan O'Loghlen
1828 – 1905
Buddy Myer
1904 – 1974
Carl Lucas Alsberg
1877 – 1940
Carlos Arroyo
1893 – 1969
Carlos Manuel Muñiz
1922 – 2007
Charles J. Kersten
1902 – 1972
Charles Loring Jackson
1847 – 1935
Charles Robertson
1875 – 1958
Charles Vance Millar
1853 – 1926
Charles William Gordon
1860 – 1937
Christopher Robinson
1828 – 1905
Cino Moscatelli
1908 – 1981
Clarence Arlen Beam
1930 – 2025
Claude Fauchet
1744 – 1793
Claude-Marie Courmes
1770 – 1865
Dana G. Mead
1936 – 2018
Daniel Krištof
1979 – 2025
David Gore-Booth
1943 – 2004
David Vere-Jones
1936 – 2024
Dick Sheppard
1880 – 1937
Donald Longmore
1928 – 2023
Eberhard Ludwig I, Duke of Württemberg
1676 – 1733
Eduard Engelmann
1864 – 1944
Eduardo De Filippo
1900 – 1984
Edward Joy Morris
1815 – 1881
Edward Lugard
1810 – 1898
Edwin Walker
1909 – 1993
Eileen Gray
1878 – 1976
Elisha Cooke Sr.
1637 – 1715
Elliott Loughlin
1910 – 1989
Evelyn Groesbeeck Mitchell
1879 – 1964
Ewald Banse
1883 – 1953
Farrell Dobbs
1907 – 1983
Federico Fellini
1920 – 1993
Felix von Bendemann
1848 – 1915
Ferdinand Maximilien Mériadec de Rohan
1738 – 1813
Foster Robinson
1880 – 1967
Francesca Duranti
1935 – 2025
Francis B. Posey
1848 – 1915
Francis R. Lassiter
1866 – 1909
Francisca Beretervide
1886 – 1976
Francisco Rojas Gutiérrez
1944 – 2025
Frank Doran
1949 – 2017
Frank Farrar
1929 – 2021
Frank Kurtz
1911 – 1996
Frederick C. Blesse
1921 – 2012
Frederick Snowdon Corrance
1822 – 1906
Frederik Christian Lund
1826 – 1901
Gary A. Myers
1937 – 2020
Gene Rock
1921 – 2002
Georg Anton Friedrich Ast
1778 – 1841
George Creasy
1895 – 1972
George Halas
1895 – 1983
George Mastics
1931 – 2018
George Ruby
1841 – 1882
George W. De Long
1844 – 1881
George W. Owings III
1945 – 2023
Giuseppe Cilento
1923 – 1994
Giuseppe Samonà
1898 – 1983
Gus Savage
1925 – 2015
Gérard de Villiers
1929 – 2013
Hal Anger
1920 – 2005
Hans Høegh
1926 – 2010
Hans Ulrich Baumberger
1932 – 2022
Helena Willman-Grabowska
1870 – 1957
Henry C. Allen
1838 – 1889
… and 1,710 more