| July 31st 1816 | | George Henry Thomas, Major General (Union Army), died in 1870
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| July 31st 1817 | | Philip Cook Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
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| July 31st 1818 | | Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer
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| July 31st 1825 | | Thomas Hart Taylor, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
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| July 31st 1828 | | Fran‡ois Auguste Gevaert, Belgian composer (Le diable au moulin)
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| July 31st 1830 | | Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer
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| July 31st 1834 | | Peter H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformer/founder (Free Parish)
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| July 31st 1837 | | William Clarke Quantrill, Col (Confederate Army), died in 1865
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| July 31st 1841 | | George Melville, polar explorer, naval engineer
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| July 31st 1844 | | Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist
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| July 31st 1847 | | Ignatio Cervantes, composer
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| July 31st 1848 | | Jean Robert Planquette, France, composer (Bells of Corneville)
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| July 31st 1854 | | Jos‚ Canalejas contributes Mendez, premier of Spain (1910-12)
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| July 31st 1875 | | Harry Northrup, Paris France, actor (Who's That Knocking at My Door)
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| July 31st 1882 | | Grete Gulbransson, writer
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