| July 31st 1905 | - Birth: | Trenchard Cox, museum director |
| July 31st 1994 | - Event: | Stockholms avgs 21.5øC; their warmest July since 1855 |
| July 31st 1992 | - Death: | Sjoerd de Free, reporter (Radio Herrijzend Netherland), dies |
| July 31st 1963 | - Event: | Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina |
| July 31st 1992 | - Death: | Joseph L George, dies of cancer at 65 |
| July 31st 1922 | - Birth: | Lucy Killea, (assemblywoman-Calif) |
| July 31st 1964 | - Death: | Jim Reeves, US country singer, dies in air crash at 39 |
| July 31st 1864 | - Event: | Ulysses S Grant is named General of Volunteers |
| July 31st 1953 | - Event: | Dept of Health, Education & Welfare created |
| July 31st 1597 | - Birth: | Sebastian Stosskopf, Elzassisch painter, baptized |
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