Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1931

William Rush Merriam was an American politician.

Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish ancestry. He wrote a book showing how the Poisson distribution, a discrete probability distribution, can be useful in applied statistics, and he made contributions to mathematical economics. He lived most of his professional life in Germany, where he taught at Strassburg University and Berlin University (1901–1931).

Wilhelm Franz Exner was former president of the Austrian Business Association and initiator of the Wilhelm Exner Medal.

William Dorsey Jelks was an American newspaper editor, publisher, and politician who served as the 32nd Governor of Alabama from 1901 to 1907. As Lieutenant Governor of Alabama, he also served as acting governor between December 1 and December 26, 1900 when Governor William J. Samford was out-of-state seeking medical treatment.