In deaths:
| July 31st 1985 | | Eugene Carson Blake, sec-gen World Council of Churches, dies at 78
| | July 31st 1985 | | Murray Chapple, cricketer (14 Tests for NZ, 497 runs), dies
| | July 31st 1986 | | Theodore "Teddy" Wilson, US jazz pianist/arranger, dies at 73
| | July 31st 1988 | | Trinidad Silva, killed in auto accident at 38
| | July 31st 1990 | | Fernando Sancho, dies after operation for malignant tumor at 72
| | July 31st 1992 | | G Harold Carswell, supreme court justice candidate 1970, dies at 72
| | July 31st 1992 | | Joseph L George, dies of cancer at 65
| | July 31st 1992 | | Ralph Strait, dies of heart attack at 56
| | July 31st 1992 | | Sjoerd de Free, reporter (Radio Herrijzend Netherland), dies
| | July 31st 1993 | | Baudouin, king of Belgium (1951-93), dies at 62 from heart problems
| | July 31st 1993 | | Elmar Klos, director (Obzalovany, Obchod na Korze), dies at 83
| | July 31st 1993 | | Paul Henry, US Republicans Congressional leader, dies at 51
| | July 31st 1994 | | Anne Shelton, British singer (Glenn Miller Band), dies at 66
| | July 31st 1994 | | Caitlin Thomas, dies
| | July 31st 1994 | | G de Ru, chairman of Dutch Reformed Synode, dies
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