page_title: 1931 in the United States
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1931 in the United States / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Robert Duvall at Tribeca Film Festival 2010
context_page_description: Events from the year 1931 in the United States.
context_section_description: January 5
  Alvin Ailey, choreographer (d. 1989)
  Robert Duvall, actor and director
  January 6
  Fern Battaglia, baseball player (d. 2001)
  E. L. Doctorow, novelist (d. 2015)
  January 7 – Mack Mattingly, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1981 to 1987
  January 16 – Ellen Holly, American actress
  January 17 – James Earl Jones, African-American actor
  January 20
  Preston Henn, businessman, founder of Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop (d. 2017)
  David Lee, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996
  January 22 – Sam Cooke, African-American singer (d. 1964)
  January 25 – Dean Jones, American actor (d. 2015)
  January 27 – Red Bastien, wrestler, trainer and promoter (d. 2012)
  January 29 – Jim Baumer, baseball player and manager (d. 1996)
  January 30 – Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author (d. 2011)
  January 31
  Ernie Banks, African-American baseball player (d. 2015)
  Lorraine Ellison, African-American soul singer (d. 1983)
  Jack Taylor, swimmer (d. 1955)
caption: Robert Duvall
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