In births:
| July 31st 1913 | | Bryan Hextall, NHL hall of famer (NY Rangers)
| | July 31st 1914 | | Jose Ignacio Domecq, wine maker
| | July 31st 1914 | | Louis De Funes, Courbevoie France, actor (I Tartassati, Fantomas)
| | July 31st 1915 | | Robert Steel, academic
| | July 31st 1916 | | Sydney Tafler, London England, actor (Too Many Crooks)
| | July 31st 1916 | | Verdun Scott, NZ cricketer/rugby player
| | July 31st 1919 | | Curt Gowdy, Green River Wyo, sportscaster (ABC)
| | July 31st 1919 | | Hemu Ramchandra Adhikari, cricketer (Indian righty batsman 1947-59)
| | July 31st 1919 | | Norman Del Mar, composer
| | July 31st 1919 | | Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Aushchwitz)
| | July 31st 1920 | | Rudolf Halaczinsky, composer
| | July 31st 1921 | | Whitney M Young Jr, civil rights leader, head of Urban League
| | July 31st 1922 | | Lucy Killea, (assemblywoman-Calif)
| | July 31st 1923 | | Ahmet Ertegun, CEO (Atlantic Records)
| | July 31st 1927 | | Walter Vogt, writer
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