1931 in Wales

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

Incumbents

 * Archbishop of Wales – Alfred George Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph
 * Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Pedrog

Events

 * 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.
 * date unknown
 * The Welsh School of Medicine is founded at Cardiff, later becoming the University of Wales College of Medicine.
 * Nancy Astor addresses a meeting in Cardiff on the subject of recruiting women into the police.

Arts and literature

 * Edward Tegla Davies becomes editor of Yr Efrydydd.

Awards

 * National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Bangor)
 * National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - David James Jones
 * National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Albert Evans Jones

English language

 * Eliot Crawshay-Williams - Night in the Hotel
 * John Morris-Jones - Welsh Syntax: An Unfinished Draft
 * Bertrand Russell - The Scientific Outlook
 * Lily Tobias – My Mother's House

Welsh language

 * John Jenkins (Gwili) - Hanfod Duw a Pherson Crist
 * Moelona - Beryl
 * Jennie Thomas – Llyfr Mawr y Plant (first appearance of Wil Cwac Cwac)

Music

 * Grace Williams – Sextet for oboe, trumpet, violin, viola, cello and piano

Film

 * 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

Broadcasting

 * 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.

Sport

 * Rugby union
 * Wales, under the captaincy of Jack Bassett, win the Five Nations Championship.
 * 7 February Wales beat Scotland 13–8 at the Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff.

Births

 * 4 January - Harry Griffiths, footballer (died 1978)
 * 10 January - Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids, politician
 * 2 February - Glynn Edwards, actor (died 2018)
 * 4 March - Gwilym Prichard, landscape painter (d. 2015)
 * 13 March - Ted Grace, Swansea-born politician in Australia (died 2020)to 1984.
 * 20 March - Orig Williams, wrestler and TV presenter (died 2009)
 * 22 March - Leslie Thomas, novelist (died 2014)
 * 30 March - Emrys Jones, literary scholar (died 2012)
 * 7 April - Eifion Evans, church historian (died 2017)
 * 11 April - Lewis Jones, rugby player
 * 30 April - Merfyn Jones, footballer (died 2016)
 * 11 May - Gerry Humphreys, sound engineer (died 2006)
 * 29 May – Christopher Evans, computer scientist (died 1979)
 * 23 June - Brian Sparks, Wales international rugby union player (died 2013)
 * 29 June - Howard Morgan, cricketer
 * 2 July - Frank Williams, actor
 * 13 July - Philip Jones, businessman and civil servant (died 2000)
 * 13 August
 * Roy Evans, trade union leader (died 2015)
 * Gareth Lewis, canon of Newport (died 1997)
 * 15 August - Gwyn Evans, bowls player
 * 1 September - Mair Wynn Hughes, children's author
 * 18 September - Roger Howells, footballer (died 1975)
 * 5 November - John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon, politician (died 2023)
 * 17 November - Dudley Price, footballer (died 2021)
 * 27 November - Gareth Griffiths, Wales and British Lions rugby union player
 * 29 November - Glyn Hughes, footballer (died 1995)
 * 25 December - Dafydd Rowlands, Eisteddfod-winning author (died 2001)
 * 27 December - John Charles, footballer (died 2004)
 * 30 December - John T. Houghton, climate scientist (died 2020)
 * date unknown - Brynley F. Roberts, scholar, librarian, National Library of Wales

Deaths

 * 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