1931

1931 was the year operated as a gangster in Chicago. His plan was unwittingly defeated by the Fourth Doctor. (PROSE: The Duke of Dominoes) Monarch's ship began to receive radio signals from Earth in this year. (TV: Four to Doomsday)

It was one of the years visited by the First Doctor, Steven Taylor and Sara Kingdom at Christmas as they unknowingly followed Robert's distress signal. (PROSE: The Little Drummer Boy)

Thomas Campbell Brockless, the father of Tommy Brockless, died of a heart attack at the age of fifty-seven in June. (TV: To the Last Man)


 * 26 January - Actor Alfred Lynch was born.


 * 15 February - Actress Claire Bloom was born.
 * 21 February - Actor Kenneth Seeger was born.


 * 1 March - Actor Neville Barber was born.
 * 14 March - Actor Gordon Faith was born.
 * 15 March - Actor James Ellis was born.
 * 26 March - Actor George Raistrick was born.
 * 26 - Actor Leonard Nimoy was born.
 * 27 March - Actor Tony Calvin was born.
 * 29 March - Actor Peter Russell was born.


 * 1 April - Actor George Baker was born.
 * 4 April - Director Derek Martinus was born.
 * 9 April - Actor Jon Rollason was born.
 * 16 April - Actor Godfrey James was born.
 * 27 April - Writer and actor Glyn Jones was born.


 * 8 May - Director Douglas Camfield was born.
 * 18 May - Actor John Fraser was born.
 * 19 May - Actor James Greene was born.
 * 20 May - Actor Michael Spice was born.


 * 2 June - Actress June Bland was born.
 * 11 June - Actor Colin Bell was born.
 * 14 June - Actor Kenneth Cope was born.


 * 16 July - Writer Robert Banks Stewart was born.
 * 20 July - Actor Roy Skelton was born.
 * 26 July - Actor Arnold Chazen was born.


 * 9 August - Actress Alethea Charlton was born.
 * 25 August - Actor Bryan Mosley was born in Leeds.
 * 25 - Actor Peter Gilmore was born.
 * 31 August - Actor Dennis Tate was born in Iowa.


 * 10 October - Writer, script editor and actor Victor Pemberton was born.
 * 28 October - Actor John Slavid was born.


 * 7 November - Actor Rio Fanning was born.
 * 10 November - Actor Don Henderson was born.
 * 16 November - Actor Kenneth Watson was born.


 * 2 December - Film cameraman Dick Bush was born.

Unknown date

 * Actor Cy Town was born.
 * Actor Max Faulkner was born.