| July 31st 1965 | - Event: | Cigarette Ads banned on British TV |
| July 31st 1875 | - Death: | Andrew Johnson, 17th pres, dies in Tennessee at 66 |
| July 31st 1629 | - Birth: | Johann Jakob Lowe von Eisenach, composer |
| July 31st 1940 | - Event: | 38 U boats sinks this month (196,000 ton) |
| July 31st 1950 | - Birth: | Lane Davies, actor (Mason-Santa Barbara, Impure Thoughts) |
| July 31st 1986 | - Death: | Theodore \"Teddy\" Wilson, US jazz pianist/arranger, dies at 73 |
| July 31st 1994 | - Event: | Sergei Bubka ploe vaults his 35th world record (6.14 m) |
| July 31st 1837 | - Birth: | William Clarke Quantrill, Col (Confederate Army), died in 1865 |
| July 31st 1912 | - Birth: | Milton Friedman, economist (Nobel 1976) |
| July 31st 1992 | - Event: | Yang Wenyi swims world record/OR 50m freestyle (24.79 sec) |
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