1931 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1931 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

3 March - Bertrand Russell succeeds to his brother's earldom.
14 April - A meteorite falls to earth on farmland in Pontllynfi, near Caernarfon.
June - Border Breweries (Wrexham) is formed by a merger.
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*The Welsh School of Medicine is founded at Cardiff, later becoming the Wales College of Medicine.
*Nancy Astor addresses a meeting in Cardiff on the subject of recruiting women into the police.

Ray Milland appears in The Bachelor Father, Strangers May Kiss, Just a Gigolo, Son of India, Bought, Ambassador Bill, and Blonde Crazy.
Mary Glynne appears in ''Inquest''

The BBC's Daventry radio transmitter increases its Welsh language output from a monthly to a fortnightly "Welsh interest" programme and includes a regular religious service broadcast entirely in Welsh.

24 January - George Hay Morgan, politician, 64
28 January - Robert Henderson, cricketer, 65
30 January - Sir Garrod Thomas, physician and politician, 77
4 February - David Thomas Jones, administrator, 64
22 February - Sir Hugh Vincent, solicitor and Wales international rugby player, 68
3 March - Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell, 65
13 March
*Vernon Hartshorn MP, miners' leader and politician
*Edward Thomas John, politician, 73
14 April - John Bryn Roberts, lawyer and politician, 88
19 April - Evan Richards, Wales international rugby player, 69
12 May - Beddoe Rees, industrialist and politician
22 June - Sir Henry Reichel, academic, 74
28 July - John Neale Dalton, chaplain and tutor to the British royal family, settled in South Wales, 91
7 October - William John Griffith, author,
26 October - Edward Perkins Alexander, Wales rugby international, 68
29 October - Edward Maes Llaned Owen, engineer, surveyor and merchant, a pioneer of Welsh colonisation in Patagonia, 85
2 November - Arthur Cook, miners' leader, 47
24 November - Jack Jones, footballer, 62
27 December - Alfred Perceval Graves, Irish author settled in Wales, 85