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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 31st of July 0781 | EVENT | The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781). |
| 31st of July 0904 | EVENT | Thessalonica falls to the Arabs, who destroy the city. |
| 31st of July 1009 | EVENT | Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII. |
| 31st of July 1200 | EVENT | Attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat. |
| 31st of July 1423 | EVENT | Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant : the French army is defeated at Cravant on the banks of the river Yonne. |
| 31st of July 1451 | EVENT | Jacques Coeur is arrested by order of Charles VII of France. |
| 31st of July 1492 | EVENT | The Jews are expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree takes effect. |
| 31st of July 1498 | EVENT | On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad. |
| 31st of July 1588 | EVENT | The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England. |
| 31st of July 1655 | EVENT | Russo-Polish War (1654-1667): the Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years. |
| 31st of July 1658 | EVENT | Aurangzeb is proclaimed Moghul emperor of India. |
| 31st of July 1667 | EVENT | Second Anglo-Dutch War: Treaty of Breda ends the conflict. |
| 31st of July 1703 | EVENT | Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers. |
| 31st of July 1741 | EVENT | Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia. |
| 31st of July 1777 | EVENT | The U.S. Second Continental Congress passes a resolution that the services of Marquis de Lafayette "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States." |
| 31st of July 1790 | EVENT | First U.S. patent is issued to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process. |
| 31st of July 1856 | EVENT | Christchurch, New Zealand is chartered as a city. |
| 31st of July 1865 | EVENT | The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia. |
| 31st of July 1895 | EVENT | The Basque Nationalist Party (Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalea-Partido Nacionalista Vasco) is founded by Basque nationalist leader Sabino Arana. |
| 31st of July 1913 | EVENT | The Balkan States signs an armistice at Bucharest. |
| 31st of July 1919 | EVENT | German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution, which comes into force on August 14. |
| 31st of July 1930 | EVENT | The radio mystery program The Shadow is aired for the first time. |
| 31st of July 1932 | EVENT | The NSDAP wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections. |
| 31st of July 1936 | EVENT | The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo. However, the games are given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War breaks out, and are eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II. |
| 31st of July 1938 | EVENT | Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia). |
| 31st of July 1938 | EVENT | Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius in Persepolis. |
| 31st of July 1940 | EVENT | A doodlebug train in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio collides with a multi-car freight train heading in the opposite direction, killing 43 people. |
| 31st of July 1941 | EVENT | Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Goring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question." |
| 31st of July 1945 | EVENT | Pierre Laval, the fugitive former leader of Vichy France, surrenders to Allied soldiers in Austria. |
| 31st of July 1945 | EVENT | John K. Giles attempts to escape from Alcatraz prison. |
| 31st of July 1948 | EVENT | At Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) is dedicated. |
| 31st of July 1951 | EVENT | Japan Airlines is established. |
| 31st of July 1954 | EVENT | First ascent of K2, by an Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio. |
| 31st of July 1959 | EVENT | The Basque separatist organisation ETA is founded. |
| 31st of July 1961 | EVENT | At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain. |
| 31st of July 1964 | EVENT | Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes. |
| 31st of July 1970 | EVENT | Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy. |
| 31st of July 1971 | EVENT | Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover. |
| 31st of July 1972 | EVENT | Operation Motorman: British troops move into the no-go areas of Belfast and Derry, Northern Ireland. End of Free Derry. |
| 31st of July 1972 | EVENT | Three car bombs are detonated in Claudy, Northern Ireland, killing nine in what is believed to be a Provisional Irish Republican Army attack. |
| 31st of July 1972 | EVENT | Northeast Airlines flies its last flight before being integrated into Delta Air Lines the next day. |
| 31st of July 1973 | EVENT | A Delta Air Lines jetliner crashes while landing in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts killing 89. |
| 31st of July 1976 | EVENT | Viking program: Viking 1 : NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo. |
| 31st of July 1981 | EVENT | A 42 day-long strike of Major League Baseball ends. |
| 31st of July 1987 | EVENT | A rare, class F4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage. |
| 31st of July 1988 | EVENT | 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia. |
| 31st of July 1991 | EVENT | The United States and Soviet Union both sign the Start I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles. |
| 31st of July 1991 | EVENT | The Medininkai Massacre in Lithuania. Soviet OMON attacks Lithuanian customs post in Medininkai, killing 7 officers and severely wounding one other. |
| 31st of July 1992 | EVENT | A Thai Airways Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board. |
| 31st of July 1992 | EVENT | Georgia joins the United Nations. |
| 31st of July 1999 | EVENT | Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector : NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface. |
| 31st of July 2002 | EVENT | Hebrew University of Jerusalem is attacked when a bomb explodes in a cafeteria, killing 9. |
| 31st of July 2006 | EVENT | Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raul Castro. |
| 31st of July 2007 | EVENT | Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end. |
| 31st of July 1143 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165) |
| 31st of July 1396 | BIRTHDAY | Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1467) |
| 31st of July 1527 | BIRTHDAY | Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576) |
| 31st of July 1598 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1654) |
| 31st of July 1702 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (d. 1768) |
| 31st of July 1704 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (d. 1752) |
| 31st of July 1718 | BIRTHDAY | John Canton, English physicist (d. 1772) |
| 31st of July 1724 | BIRTHDAY | Noel Francois de Wailly, French lexicographer (d. 1801) |
| 31st of July 1737 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Augusta of Great Britain (d. 1813) |
| 31st of July 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine statesman and priest (d. 1849) |
| 31st of July 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Wohler, German chemist and founder of organic chemistry (d. 1882) |
| 31st of July 1803 | BIRTHDAY | John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (d. 1889) |
| 31st of July 1816 | BIRTHDAY | George Henry Thomas, American general (d. 1870) |
| 31st of July 1825 | BIRTHDAY | William S. Clark, American senator and scholar (d. 1886) |
| 31st of July 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Brisson, French statesman (d. 1912) |
| 31st of July 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (d. 1903) |
| 31st of July 1837 | BIRTHDAY | William Quantrill, American Civil War rebel guerrilla leader (d. 1865) |
| 31st of July 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet (d. 1918) |
| 31st of July 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Dixon Oldham, British geologist (d. 1936) |
| 31st of July 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist (d. 1940) |
| 31st of July 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant and philanthropist (d. 1966) |
| 31st of July 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Munshi Premchand, Indian Author (d. 1936) |
| 31st of July 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Quimby, American film producer (d. 1965) |
| 31st of July 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician (d. 1945) |
| 31st of July 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American organized crime figure (d. 1931) |
| 31st of July 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Freyer, German sociologist (d. 1969) |
| 31st of July 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Charbonneau, French-Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1959) |
| 31st of July 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author and publisher (d. 1986) |
| 31st of July 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Keenor, Welsh footballer (d. 1972) |
| 31st of July 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (d. 1985) |
| 31st of July 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Halliday, American writer (d. 1977) |
| 31st of July 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Austrian writer and polyglot (d. 1999) |
| 31st of July 1911 | BIRTHDAY | George Liberace, American musician (d. 1983) |
| 31st of July 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (d. 2008) |
| 31st of July 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2006) |
| 31st of July 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Irv Kupcinet, American newspaper columnist (d. 2003) |
| 31st of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Bryan Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984) |
| 31st of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Louis de Funes, French actor and comedian (d. 1983) |
| 31st of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player and official (d. 2006) |
| 31st of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Todman, American game show producer (d. 1979) |
| 31st of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist (d. 1986) |
| 31st of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate |
| 31st of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Jones, American pianist (d. 2010) |
| 31st of July 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Curt Gowdy, American sports announcer (d. 2006) |
| 31st of July 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Primo Levi, Italian author and chemist (d. 1987) |
| 31st of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | James Esdras Faust, American religious leader (d. 2007) |
| 31st of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Whitney Young, American civil rights activist (d. 1971) |
| 31st of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Malarkey, American World War II hero |
| 31st of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Benenson, British founder of Amnesty International (d. 2005) |
| 31st of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Hank Bauer, American baseball player and manager (d. 2007) |
| 31st of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish-born record company executive (d. 2006) |
| 31st of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Evert, American tennis coach and father of Chris Evert |
| 31st of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Hilary Putnam, American philosopher |
| 31st of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Nathanson, American abortionist turned pro-life activist (d. 2011) |
| 31st of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Santamaria, Uruguayan footballer |
| 31st of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Don Murray, American actor |
| 31st of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Gilles Carle, Canadian film director and screenwriter (d. 2009) |
| 31st of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Lynne Reid Banks, British author |
| 31st of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Oleg Popov, Russian clown |
| 31st of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Bollettieri, American tennis coach |
| 31st of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Rebroff, German singer (d. 2008) |
| 31st of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Burrell, American guitarist |
| 31st of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Cassidy, American actor (d. 1979) |
| 31st of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | John Searle, American philosopher |
| 31st of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Cees Nooteboom, Dutch writer |
| 31st of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Yvon Deschamps, French-Canadian author and humorist |
| 31st of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Geoffrey Lewis, American actor |
| 31st of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Vic Davalillo, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 31st of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | France Nuyen, French actress |
| 31st of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Carol J. Clover, American academic |
| 31st of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Walker, Irish comedian and gameshow host |
| 31st of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician (d. 2004) |
| 31st of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | William Bennett, 3rd United States Secretary of Education |
| 31st of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Flannery, American actress |
| 31st of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Lobo, American singer and songwriter |
| 31st of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Sab Shimono, Japanese-American actor |
| 31st of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Geraldine Chaplin, American actress |
| 31st of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Dimbleby, British journalist and television presenter |
| 31st of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Robert C. Merton, American mathematician |
| 31st of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Lewis, American vocalist (Gary Lewis & the Playboys) |
| 31st of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | William Weld, 68th Governor of Massachusetts |
| 31st of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Zerby, American religious leader |
| 31st of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Welch, American musician |
| 31st of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Lane Davies, American actor |
| 31st of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Miller, American writer |
| 31st of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Evonne Goolagong, Australian tennis player |
| 31st of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Van Dyke, American actor |
| 31st of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Novak, German footballer |
| 31st of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Ahrens, American ice hockey player |
| 31st of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Helmuts Balderis, Latvian hockey player |
| 31st of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Autry, American football player and politician |
| 31st of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Joao Barreiros, Portuguese writer |
| 31st of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Baillieu, Australian politician |
| 31st of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Cook, South African cricketer |
| 31st of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | James Read, American actor |
| 31st of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Smith, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 31st of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Jakie Quartz, French singer |
| 31st of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Biehn, American actor |
| 31st of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Callahan, American football coach |
| 31st of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Deval Patrick, American politician, 71st governor of Massachusetts |
| 31st of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Dirk Blocker, American actor |
| 31st of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Ash, British musician (Bauhaus) |
| 31st of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Durham, American baseball player |
| 31st of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Berry, American musician (R.E.M.) |
| 31st of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Cuban, American businessman and basketball team owner |
| 31st of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Jordan, American jazz guitarist |
| 31st of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Marr, British journalist and political commentator |
| 31st of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Dale Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 31st of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | John Chiang, American politician |
| 31st of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Wesley Snipes, American actor |
| 31st of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Greene, American football player |
| 31st of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Skrudland, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 31st of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Cook, British musician (The Housemartins, Freak Power, Beats International, Fatboy Slim) |
| 31st of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Corr, Irish singer and musician (The Corrs) |
| 31st of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Brooks, American basketball player |
| 31st of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | John Laurinaitis, American professional wrestler |
| 31st of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | J. K. Rowling, British writer |
| 31st of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Richards, British film director |
| 31st of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Cain, American actor |
| 31st of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Martin, Canadian Curler |
| 31st of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d. 2005) |
| 31st of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Mitsuo Iwata, Japanese seiyu |
| 31st of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Massenburg, American basketball player |
| 31st of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Wright, Welsh composer |
| 31st of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Saeed-Al-Saffar, Former UAE cricketer |
| 31st of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | David Cash, American professional wrestler |
| 31st of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth D. Schisler, American politician |
| 31st of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Loren Dean, American actor |
| 31st of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmad Akbarpour, Iranian writer |
| 31st of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Sigalas, Greek basketball player |
| 31st of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Stepto, Canadian actress |
| 31st of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Chaplin, English actor |
| 31st of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Wedge, American journalist |
| 31st of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Gus Frerotte, American football player |
| 31st of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | John Lowery, American guitarist |
| 31st of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Kapoutzidis, Greek screenwriter and actor |
| 31st of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Brown, Australian rugby league player |
| 31st of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Fabulous Flournoy American basketball player and coach Newcastle Eagles |
| 31st of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Emilia Fox, English actress |
| 31st of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Ogden, American football player |
| 31st of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Flores, American baseball player |
| 31st of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Hirst, British radio DJ |
| 31st of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Gabe Kapler, American baseball player and manager |
| 31st of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Hall, Former South African cricketer |
| 31st of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Poesy Liang, Founder of Helping Angels |
| 31st of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Lincoln, American baseball player |
| 31st of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Allan von Schenkel, American musician |
| 31st of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ruben Patterson, American basketball player |
| 31st of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rican footballer |
| 31st of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Cain, American musician (Motion City Soundtrack) |
| 31st of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Couch, American football player |
| 31st of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Zeta Makripoulia, Greek actress, model and TV presenter |
| 31st of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Sorensen, American football player |
| 31st of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Will Champion, English musician (Coldplay) |
| 31st of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Wilson, English racing driver |
| 31st of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jaco Erasmus, South African-born Italian rugby player |
| 31st of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Per Kr?ldrup, Danish footballer |
| 31st of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | J. J. Furmaniak, American baseball player |
| 31st of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Marchena, Spanish footballer |
| 31st of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | B. J. Novak, American actor |
| 31st of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jade Kwan, Hong Kong singer |
| 31st of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mikko Hirvonen, Finnish Rally driver |
| 31st of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mils Muliaina, New Zealand rugby union player |
| 31st of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ira Losco, Maltese singer |
| 31st of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Lively, American actor |
| 31st of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | J.Son Dinant, American comedian |
| 31st of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Sanders, American singer (Avenged Sevenfold) |
| 31st of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Blessing Mahwire, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 31st of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | DeMarcus Ware, American football player |
| 31st of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Ciofani, Italian footballer |
| 31st of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Remy Di Gregorio, French cyclist |
| 31st of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Evgeni Malkin, Russian ice hockey player |
| 31st of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Bradley, American soccer player |
| 31st of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Brittany Byrnes, Australian Actress |
| 31st of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Krystal Meyers, American Christian singer/songwriter/musician |
| 31st of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria Azarenka, Belarusian tennis player |
| 31st of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Besart Abdurahimi, Croatian football player of Albanian origin. |
| 31st of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Olga Galchenko, Russian juggler |
| 31st of July 1997 | BIRTHDAY | Barbie Forteza, Filipina child actress |
| 31st of July 0855 | DEATH | Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Muslim Jurisprudent (Born 780) |
| 31st of July 1396 | DEATH | William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1342) |
| 31st of July 1508 | DEATH | Na'od, Emperor of Ethiopia (Born 1494) |
| 31st of July 1556 | DEATH | Ignatius Loyola, Spanish priest and founder of the Jesuits (Born 1491) |
| 31st of July 1653 | DEATH | Thomas Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (Born 1576) |
| 31st of July 1726 | DEATH | Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (Born 1695) |
| 31st of July 1750 | DEATH | King John V of Portugal (Born 1689) |
| 31st of July 1784 | DEATH | Denis Diderot, French philosopher and encylopedist (Born 1713) |
| 31st of July 1864 | DEATH | Louis Hachette, French publisher (Born 1800) |
| 31st of July 1875 | DEATH | Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (Born 1808) |
| 31st of July 1886 | DEATH | Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (Born 1811) |
| 31st of July 1914 | DEATH | Jean Jaures, French politician (d. 1859) |
| 31st of July 1917 | DEATH | Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet (Born 1887) |
| 31st of July 1917 | DEATH | Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (Born 1881) |
| 31st of July 1920 | DEATH | Ion Dragoumis, Greek diplomat, writer and revolutionary (Born 1878) |
| 31st of July 1940 | DEATH | Udham Singh, Indian Extremist Freedom Fighter(Born 1899) |
| 31st of July 1943 | DEATH | Hedley Verity, English Test cricketer (Born 1905) |
| 31st of July 1944 | DEATH | Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (Born 1900) |
| 31st of July 1953 | DEATH | Robert Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio and Presidential candidate (Born 1889) |
| 31st of July 1954 | DEATH | Onofre Marimon, Argentine racing driver (Born 1923) |
| 31st of July 1963 | DEATH | Sir Robert Chapman, British soldier and politician (Born 1880) |
| 31st of July 1964 | DEATH | Jim Reeves, American singer (Born 1923) |
| 31st of July 1966 | DEATH | Bud Powell, American jazz pianist (Born 1924) |
| 31st of July 1970 | DEATH | Walter Briggs, Jr., American sports executive (Born 1912) |
| 31st of July 1972 | DEATH | Paul-Henri Spaak, Prime Minister of Belgium (Born 1899) |
| 31st of July 1973 | DEATH | Azumafuji Kin'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (the 40th Yokozuna) and professional wrestler (Born 1921) |
| 31st of July 1980 | DEATH | Pascual Jordan, German physicist (Born 1902) |
| 31st of July 1980 | DEATH | Mohd. Rafi, Indian playback singer (Born 1924) |
| 31st of July 1981 | DEATH | General Omar Torrijos of Panama (Born 1929). |
| 31st of July 1986 | DEATH | Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (Born 1912) |
| 31st of July 1986 | DEATH | Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (Born 1900) |
| 31st of July 1988 | DEATH | Trinidad Silva, American actor (Born 1950) |
| 31st of July 1990 | DEATH | Albert Leduc, French Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1902) |
| 31st of July 1993 | DEATH | King Baudouin I of Belgium (Born 1930) |
| 31st of July 1996 | DEATH | Seagram Miller, American rapper (Born 1970) |
| 31st of July 2001 | DEATH | Poul Anderson, American author (Born 1926) |
| 31st of July 2001 | DEATH | Francisco da Costa Gomes, 16th President of Portugal (Born 1914) |
| 31st of July 2001 | DEATH | Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (Born 1910) |
| 31st of July 2003 | DEATH | Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (Born 1933) |
| 31st of July 2004 | DEATH | Laura Betti, Italian actress (Born 1927) |
| 31st of July 2004 | DEATH | Virginia Grey, American actress (Born 1917) |
| 31st of July 2005 | DEATH | Wim Duisenberg, Dutch banker (Born 1935) |
| 31st of July 2006 | DEATH | Paul Eells, American sportscaster (Born 1935) |
| 31st of July 2009 | DEATH | Sir Bobby Robson, English professional football player and manager (Born 1933) |
| 31st of July 2009 | DEATH | Harry Alan Towers, English film producer and screenwriter (Born 1920) |