Born on October 31
October 31 birthdays & history
If you were born on October 31, you share a birthday with Katsushika Hokusai, John Keats and Chiang Kai-shek. October 31 babies are Scorpio, with opal as their birthstone and the marigold as their birth flower. October 31 is the 305th day of the year in leap years (304th in other years).
Famous people born on October 31
- 1760Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese artist and printmaker
- 1795John Keats, English poet
- 1887Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China
- 1632Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter
- 1961Peter Jackson, New Zealand actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1950Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-English architect and academic, designed the Bridge Pavilion
- 1964Marco van Basten, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1997Marcus Rashford, English footballer
- 1815Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician and academic
- 1892Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player and author
What happened on October 31
- 475Romulus Augustulus took the throne as the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1822Emperor Agustín de Iturbide attempts to dissolve the Congress of the Mexican Empire.
- 1864Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
- 1907The Parliament of Finland approved the Prohibition Act, but the law was not implemented because it was not ratified by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
- 1913Dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across United States.
- 1923The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.
- 1924World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
- 1941Approximately 400 workers completed the 60-foot (18 m) busts of U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.
- 1941After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed.
- 1999Australian sailor Jesse Martin arrived in Melbourne, becoming the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop, and unassisted.
- 2003After 22 years in power, Mahathir Mohamad retired as Prime Minister of Malaysia.
- 2005The discovery of the Plutonian moons Nix and Hydra, based on photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope nearly five months earlier, was announced.
Also observed on October 31
- Día de la Canción Criolla (Peru)
- Halloween and related celebrations: Allantide (Cornwall)
- Halloween and related celebrations: Hop-tu-Naa (Isle of Man)
- Girl Scouts Founders Day (United States)
- King Father's Birthday (Cambodia)
- National Unity Day (India)
Questions, answered
What star sign is October 31?
People born on October 31 are Scorpio. Their birthstone is opal and their birth flower is the marigold.
Which famous people were born on October 31?
Katsushika Hokusai (1760), John Keats (1795), Chiang Kai-shek (1887), Johannes Vermeer (1632), Peter Jackson (1961), Zaha Hadid (1950) were all born on October 31.
What happened on October 31 in history?
Among other things: in 1999, Australian sailor Jesse Martin arrived in Melbourne, becoming the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop, and unassisted; in 2003, After 22 years in power, Mahathir Mohamad retired as Prime Minister of Malaysia; in 2005, The discovery of the Plutonian moons Nix and Hydra, based on photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope nearly five months earlier, was announced.
Can I get a newspaper front page from October 31?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any October 31 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “October 31”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.