In deaths:
| July 31st 1964 | | Jim Reeves, US country singer, dies in air crash at 39
| | July 31st 1965 | | James Rennie, actor (Wilson, Skylark, Illicit), dies at 75
| | July 31st 1966 | | Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general, dies at 87
| | July 31st 1967 | | Mario Varvoglis, composer, dies at 81
| | July 31st 1967 | | Richard Kuhn, German chemist, dies
| | July 31st 1968 | | Gertrude Short, actress (Stella Dallas, Blonde Venus), dies at 66
| | July 31st 1972 | | Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian premier/sect-gen (NATO, 1957-61), dies at 73
| | July 31st 1977 | | Stacy Moskowitz, shot to death by Son of Sam, at 20
| | July 31st 1978 | | Carleton Percy Hobbs, actor (I Claudius, Dark Places), dies at 80
| | July 31st 1978 | | Enoch Light, orch leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith), dies at 70
| | July 31st 1979 | | Beatrix Lehmann, actress (Psyche '59, Rat, Staircase), dies at 76
| | July 31st 1980 | | Bobby Van, actor/TV host (Make Me Laugh), dies of cancer at 49
| | July 31st 1981 | | Gen Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash
| | July 31st 1984 | | Bill Raisch, one armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive), dies at 79
| | July 31st 1984 | | Paul Le Flem, composer, dies at 103
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