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July 31st Holidays and Observances

Hari Pahlawan - Malaysian warriors day.
Ka Hae Hawai‘i - Hawaiian Flag Day.
Republic of the Congo - Upswing of the Revolution.


July 31st Birthdays

1990 Olga Galchenko Russian juggler
1986 Evgeni Malkin Russian hockey player
1985 Gord Urquhart Canadian Student, Healer
1985 Gord Urquhart Canadian Student, Healer
1982 Blessing Mahwire Zimbabwean cricketer
1982 Melanie Vallejo Australian TV actress
1981 Eric Lively American actor
1981 Ira Losco Maltese singer
1981 Matthew "M. Shadows" Sanders American singer (Avenged Sevenfold)
1980 Mils Muliaina New Zealand and Waikato rugby player
1979 Jade Kwan Hong Kong singer
1979 Per Krøldrup Danish footballer
1979 J.J. Furmaniak American baseball player
1979 Carlos Marchena Spanish footballer
1979 B. J. Novak American actor
1978 Justin Wilson English race car driver
1978 Will Champion English drummer (Coldplay)
1977 Tim Couch American football player
1976 Joshua Cain American guitarist (Motion City Soundtrack)
1976 Annie Parisse American actress
1976 Paulo Wanchope Costa Rican footballer
1975 Simon Hirst British radio DJ
1975 Allan von Schenkel American musician
1975 Randy Flores American baseball player
1975 Mike Lincoln American baseball player
1974 Emilia Fox English actress
1974 Jonathan Ogden American football player
1973 Chandra North American supermodel
1971 Gus Frerotte American football player
1971 John Lowery (John 5) American guitarist
1969 David Cash American professional wrestler
1969 Loren Dean American actor
1969 Kenneth D. Schisler American politician
1968 Julian Richards Welsh film director
1967 Minako Honda Japanese singer and musical actress
1966 Dean Cain American actor
1965 John Laurinaitis American professional wrestler
1965 J. K. Rowling British writer
1965 Scott Brooks American basketball player
1964 Jim Corr Irish singer and musician (The Corrs)
1963 Brian Skrudland Canadian ice hockey player
1963 Fatboy Slim British musician
1962 John Chiang American politician
1962 Kevin Greene American football player
1962 Wesley Snipes American actor
1960 Dale Hunter Canadian ice hockey player
1959 Stanley Jordan American jazz guitarist
1958 Bill Berry American drummer (R.E.M.)
1958 Mark Cuban American businessman, producer, and basketball team owner
1957 Daniel Ash British musician (Bauhaus)
1957 Leon Durham American baseball player
1957 Dirk Blocker American actor
1956 Michael Biehn American actor
1954 Derek Smith Canadian ice hockey player
1953 James Read American actor
1952 Chris Ahrens American ice hockey player
1952 Alan Autry American football player, actor and politician
1952 Helmuts Balderis Latvian hockey player
1952 João Barreiros Portuguese writer
1951 Evonne Goolagong Australian tennis player
1951 Barry Van Dyke American actor
1950 Lane Davies American actor
1950 Steve Miller American writer
1946 Bob Welch American musician
1946 Karen Zerby current leader of Children of God
1945 Gary Lewis American drummer and vocalist (Gary Lewis & the Playboys)
1944 Geraldine Chaplin American actress
1944 Jonathan Dimbleby U.K. journalist and television presenter
1944 Robert C. Merton Leading Scholar and Nobel Prize Winner
1943 William Bennett 3rd United States Secretary of Education
1943 Susan Flannery American actress
1943 Lobo American singer and songwriter
1943 Sab Shimono Japanese American actor
1941 Amarsinh Chaudhary Indian politician
1939 France Nuyen French actress
1936 Vic Davalillo baseball player
1936 Sir Richard Greenbury British retailing giant
1935 Yvon Deschamps French Canadian author, comedian and humorist
1935 Geoffrey Lewis American actor
1933 Cees Nooteboom Dutch writer
1932 Ted Cassidy American actor
1931 Kenny Burrell American guitarist
1931 Nick Bollettieri American tennis coach
1930 Oleg Popov Russian clown
1929 Don Murray American actor
1929 José Santamaria Uruguayan footballer
1929 Lynne Reid Banks British author
1923 Ahmet Ertegün Turkish-born record company executive
1921 Whitney Young American civil rights activist
1921 Peter Benenson founder of Amnesty International
1919 Curt Gowdy American sports announcer
1919 Primo Levi Italian author and chemist
1918 Paul D. Boyer American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1918 Hank Jones American pianist
1916 Billy Hitchcock baseball player, coach, and official
1916 Bill Todman American game show producer
1916 Sibte Hassan Pakistani activist, journalist, and writer
1914 Louis de Funès French actor and comedian
1913 Bryan Hextall Canadian hockey player
1912 Bill Brown Australian cricketer
1912 Milton Friedman American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate
1912 Irv Kupcinet American newspaper columnist
1911 George Liberace American musician
1904 Brett Halliday American writer
1901 Jean Dubuffet French painter and sculptor
1892 Joseph Charbonneau French Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop of Montreal
1887 Hans Freyer German sociologist
1884 Carl Friedrich Goerdeler German politician
1883 Fred Quimby American film producer
1867 Sebastian S. Kresge American merchant and philanthropist
1860 Mary Vaux Walcott American artist and naturalist
1858 Richard Dixon Oldham British geologist
1843 Peter Rosegger Austrian poet
1835 Henri Brisson French statesman
1835 Paul du Chaillu French explorer
1816 George Henry Thomas American general
1803 John Ericsson Swedish inventor and engineer
1724 Noël François de Wailly French lexicographer
1718 John Canton English physicist
1704 Gabriel Cramer Swiss mathematician
1702 Jean Denis Attiret French Jesuit missionary and painter
1598 Alessandro Algardi Italian sculptor and architect
1527 Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1576)
1396 Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1467)
1143 Emperor Nijo of Japan (d. 1165)