On This Day — July 31
3762 noted people were born and 1803 died on July 31 in our archive, including Elliott H. Lieb, Felix Browder and Franc Solina.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on July 31
Elliott H. Lieb
b. 1932
Felix Browder
1927 – 2016
Franc Solina
b. 1955
Pascal Ory
b. 1948
Peter Benenson
1921 – 2005
Theobald Smith
1859 – 1934
Anton Eiselsberg
1860 – 1939
Boris Chirkov
1901 – 1982
Colin Roberts
b. 1959
David M. Holtzman
b. 1961
Emanuel Goldenweiser
1883 – 1953
Eugène Le Poittevin
1806 – 1870
Friedrich Robert Helmert
1843 – 1917
Friedrich Wöhler
1800 – 1882
Gabriel Cramer
1704 – 1752
George Jackson
b. 1962
Hartmut Mehdorn
b. 1942
Heinrich Kiepert
1818 – 1899
Hubert Védrine
b. 1947
James Beethom Whitehead
1858 – 1928
Jan Tabachnyk
1945 – 2023
Joe Wilson
b. 1947
Johannes Irgens
1869 – 1939
John W. Garrett
1820 – 1884
Joseph-Ernest Grégoire
1886 – 1980
José Canalejas
1854 – 1912
Kunio Yanagita
1875 – 1962
Lesley Joy Rogers
b. 1943
María Teresa Lozano Imízcoz
b. 1946
Paul D. Boyer
1918 – 2018
Robert C. Merton
b. 1944
Robert Wedgeworth
b. 1937
Simon S. Lam
b. 1947
Stephanie L. Kwolek
1923 – 2014
Thomas George Roddick
1846 – 1923
William J. Bennett
b. 1943
William Smith Clark
1826 – 1886
Adolf Tortilowicz von Batocki-Friebe
1868 – 1944
Akis Tsochatzopoulos
1939 – 2021
Aleksandr Gorovoy
b. 1960
Alexander Kolmakov
b. 1955
Alexander Naumann
1837 – 1922
Amal Nasser ad-Din
1928 – 2025
Anatoly Bogatyrev
1913 – 2003
Andrew Giles
b. 1973
Andrew Marr
b. 1959
Andrzej Sławiński
b. 1951
Annemarie Penn-te Strake
b. 1953
Anoush Beghloyan
b. 1969
Art Acevedo
b. 1964
Asef Bayat
b. 1954
Belén Garijo
b. 1960
Bette Stephenson
1924 – 2019
Bill Todman
1916 – 1979
Bohuslav Ečer
1893 – 1954
Botho zu Eulenburg
1831 – 1912
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler
1884 – 1945
Charles Inglis
1875 – 1952
Charles Swinfen Eady, 1st Baron Swinfen
1851 – 1919
Charles W. Whalen
1920 – 2011
Christian Gottlob Barth
1799 – 1862
Cirilito Sobejana
b. 1965
Daniel Evans
b. 1973
Deval Patrick
b. 1956
Dominique Sorain
b. 1955
Doug Steinhardt
b. 1968
Dumanoir
1806 – 1865
Eeva Tikka
b. 1939
Ellen Hartman
1860 – 1945
Ernest Chuard
1857 – 1942
Eugen Huber
1849 – 1923
Fiona Dawson
b. 1977
Frans Pretorius
b. 1973
Franz Meyers
1908 – 2002
François-Auguste Gevaert
1828 – 1908
Frederick Shaw
1861 – 1942
George Abram Miller
1863 – 1951
George Hoadly
1826 – 1902
Gisela Wurm
b. 1957
Gopal Prasad
b. 1945
Hank Jones
1918 – 2010
Hans Freyer
1887 – 1969
Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus
1877 – 1970
Harsh Brahmbhatt
b. 1954
Herbert Aptheker
1915 – 2003
Herbert Chermside
1850 – 1929
Herbert Miles
1850 – 1926
Hervé Mangon
1821 – 1888
Hilary Putnam
1926 – 2016
Ignacy Domeyko
1802 – 1889
Ignacy Jeż
1914 – 2007
Ignazio Guidi
1844 – 1935
Imre Antal
1935 – 2008
Irv Kupcinet
1912 – 2003
Jaime del Burgo
b. 1942
James Kent
1763 – 1847
Jane Bennett
b. 1957
Jenny Rosenthal Bramley
1909 – 1997
Jeremy Mould
b. 1949
Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Elder
1724 – 1774
Johann Samuel König
1712 – 1757
Johannes Smemo
1898 – 1973
John Alexander MacWilliam
1857 – 1937
John Dyson, Lord Dyson
b. 1943
John Lansing
1957 – 2024
John Searle
1932 – 2025
John Swainson
1925 – 1994
Julius Nicolaysen
1831 – 1909
Jānis Birks
b. 1956
K. Shankar Pillai
1902 – 1989
Kai Mykkänen
b. 1979
Kasturi Lal Chopra
1933 – 2021
Katsuhito Noshi
b. 1967
Kenny Burrell
b. 1931
Kim Addonizio
b. 1954
Leonid Yakubovich
b. 1945
Louis de Soissons
1890 – 1962
Loujain al-Hathloul
b. 1989
Ludwig Friedrich Otto Baumgarten-Crusius
1788 – 1843
Luke E. Hart
1880 – 1964
László Gajdos
b. 1962
Léopold Survage
1879 – 1968
Marcello Siniscalco
1924 – 2013
Maria Arménia Carrondo
b. 1948
Marion Talbot
1858 – 1948
Mark Thompson
b. 1957
Martin van Rooijen
b. 1942
Mati Klooren
1938 – 2000
Milton Friedman
1912 – 2006
Murad Gadzhiyev
b. 1961
Natalya Malenko
b. 1959
Nicholas True, Baron True
b. 1951
Nikolaus Friedreich
1825 – 1882
Noah Klieger
1926 – 2018
Okuda Yoshito
1860 – 1917
Oliver Byrne
1810 – 1880
Paquita Sauquillo
b. 1943
Pavel Fedyayev
b. 1982
Peter Ipatas
b. 1958
Piet Gros
b. 1962
Pilar del Castillo
b. 1952
Raymond Aubrac
1914 – 2012
Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath
1841 – 1929
Reinhard Goebel
b. 1952
Rhoda Mary Felgate
1901 – 1990
Richard Dixon Oldham
1858 – 1936
Richard Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baron Inglewood
b. 1951
Richard Rodriguez
b. 1944
Robert M. Morgenthau
1919 – 2019
Robert Sturua
b. 1938
Rudolf Slánský
1901 – 1952
Ruslan Tsalikov
b. 1956
S. S. Kresge
1867 – 1966
Sam S. Walker
1925 – 2015
Sigmund Skard
1903 – 1995
Silovan Kakabadze
1895 – 1993
Sofia Antoniadis
1895 – 1972
Susan Cheever
b. 1943
Susanne Wasum-Rainer
b. 1956
Tadeusz Gromada
1929 – 2025
Tamara Makarova
1907 – 1997
Ted Baillieu
b. 1953
Tjapko Poppens
b. 1970
Tom Cross
b. 1958
Tony Bancroft
b. 1967
Trenchard Cox
1905 – 1995
Troy Carter
b. 1973
Valeriu Muravschi
1949 – 2020
Vladimir Keilis-Borok
1921 – 2013
Vladimír Dlouhý
b. 1953
Wilhelm Uhthoff
1853 – 1927
William Abram Mann
1854 – 1934
William Landymore
1916 – 2008
William May
1849 – 1930
Abelardo de la Espriella
b. 1978
Abram Stevens Hewitt
1822 – 1903
Adam Putnam
b. 1974
Aengus Ó Snodaigh
b. 1964
Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels
1909 – 1993
Agnieszka Brustman
b. 1962
Agnis Čavars
b. 1986
Akiko Dōmoto
b. 1932
Alan Autry
b. 1952
Albert Grünwedel
1856 – 1935
Alejandro Atchugarry
1952 – 2017
Alex Johnstone
1961 – 2016
Alexander Granovskiy
b. 1972
Alexander Heron
1884 – 1971
Alexandra Arce
b. 1977
Alick Stevens
1898 – 1987
Alison Schwagmeyer
b. 1990
Altaf Hussain
b. 1944
Amanda Stepto
b. 1970
Amarsinh Chaudhary
1941 – 2004
Amos Adams Lawrence
1814 – 1886
Amos Wako
b. 1946
Anat Rafaeli
b. 1954
Angela Billingham, Baroness Billingham
b. 1939
Antoni Pająk
1893 – 1965
Antonio Barroso y Sánchez-Guerra
1893 – 1982
… and 3,562 more
Died on July 31
John Milne
1850 – 1913
Pascual Jordan
1902 – 1980
Abdul Khalid Ibrahim
1946 – 2022
Alan Johnstone
1858 – 1932
Alfons Gorbach
1898 – 1972
Astrid Friis
1893 – 1966
Christian Wiener
1826 – 1896
Edmond Perrier
1844 – 1921
Eino Kaila
1890 – 1958
George B. Field
1929 – 2024
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto
1782 – 1859
Hans Forssell
1843 – 1901
Hendrik C. van de Hulst
1918 – 2000
Iryna Kalynets
1940 – 2012
Jean Jaurès
1859 – 1914
Louis Christophe François Hachette
1800 – 1864
Mikhail Artamonov
1898 – 1972
Mykola Zelinsky
1861 – 1953
Per Brinch Hansen
1938 – 2007
Richard Kuhn
1900 – 1967
Seymour Papert
1928 – 2016
Thomas Francis Wade
1818 – 1895
Wim Duisenberg
1935 – 2005
Absamat Masaliyev
1933 – 2004
Adolf Martin Pleischl
1787 – 1867
Alajos Hauszmann
1847 – 1926
Albert Rehm
1871 – 1949
Alex Fergusson
1949 – 2018
Alexander Andries Maramis
1897 – 1977
Allan Hume
1829 – 1912
Andrey Terekhov
1949 – 2025
André Navarra
1911 – 1988
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1900 – 1944
Baudouin I of Belgium
1930 – 1993
Benjamin Hall
1777 – 1817
Benoît Fourneyron
1802 – 1867
Carlos María de la Torre
1873 – 1968
Charles Edison
1890 – 1969
Clyde Holding
1931 – 2011
Cosmo Innes
1798 – 1874
Edward Czajko
1934 – 2025
Edward Potkowski
1934 – 2017
Enrique Hertzog
1897 – 1981
Ernst Fischer
1899 – 1972
Eusebio Leal
1942 – 2020
Fazil Iskander
1929 – 2016
Felix Iversen
1887 – 1973
Fidel Ramos
1928 – 2022
Francis Younghusband
1863 – 1942
Franz Liszt
1811 – 1886
Fred Kilgour
1914 – 2006
Frederick A. Sawyer
1822 – 1891
Fyodor Buslaev
1818 – 1897
Félix Pécaut
1828 – 1898
Geronima Pecson
1896 – 1989
Harry D. Train II
1927 – 2026
Hirohiko Nakamura
1943 – 2013
Horace Holley
1781 – 1827
Hubert Lyman Clark
1870 – 1947
Ian Nish
1926 – 2022
Isaac Cronström
1661 – 1751
Jean-Paul Roussillon
1931 – 2009
Jeanne Moreau
1928 – 2017
Joan Mari Torrealdai
1942 – 2020
John Chancellor
1870 – 1952
John Graves
1920 – 2013
John K. Davis
1927 – 2019
John Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham
1881 – 1949
Jonathan B. Tucker
1954 – 2011
Leonard Cheshire
1917 – 1992
Ludger Westrick
1894 – 1990
Lulu Grace Graves
1874 – 1949
Mantle Hood
1918 – 2005
Martin Barner
1921 – 2020
Max Le Blanc
1865 – 1943
Michael Harrington
1928 – 1989
Mikhail Herzenstein
1859 – 1906
Mitch Miller
1911 – 2010
Mychajlo Derehus
1904 – 1997
Nicholas Minorsky
1885 – 1970
Nicolae Giosan
1921 – 1990
Omar Torrijos
1929 – 1981
Patriarch Iustin of Romania
1910 – 1986
Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic
1937 – 2003
Paul A. Chase
1895 – 1963
Paul Le Flem
1881 – 1984
Paul-Henri Spaak
1899 – 1972
Philip Perlman
1890 – 1960
R. A. F. Penrose Jr.
1863 – 1931
R. D. Pradhan
1928 – 2020
Randolph McCall Pate
1898 – 1961
Regina Kapeller-Adler
1900 – 1991
Richard Morris Hunt
1827 – 1895
Robert K. Evans
1852 – 1926
Roddy Piper
1954 – 2015
Sven Salander
1894 – 1965
Teddy Wilson
1912 – 1986
Thomas Wolff
1954 – 2000
Vadim Bakatin
1937 – 2022
Vishwa Nath Sharma
1930 – 2026
W. Jason Morgan
1935 – 2023
Wang Tso-jung
1919 – 2013
Wilfrid Kent Hughes
1895 – 1970
Yury Savenko
1961 – 2020
Ada Krivic
1914 – 1995
Alan Cameron
1938 – 2017
Alan Cheuse
1940 – 2015
Alan Parker
1944 – 2020
Alessandro Franchi
1819 – 1878
Alexander Ossovsky
1871 – 1957
Alexander Stupin
1776 – 1861
Alexander von Falkenhausen
1878 – 1966
Almon Harris Thompson
1839 – 1906
Aloys Wobben
1952 – 2021
Amerigo Petrucci
1922 – 1983
Andrej Bagar
1900 – 1966
André Juillard
1948 – 2024
Ardalion Rastov
1926 – 2012
Armand Jung
1950 – 2019
Aurel Cosma
1867 – 1931
Ayman al-Zawahiri
1951 – 2022
Bernhard Jope
1914 – 1995
Bill Russell
1934 – 2022
Brian Peter John Molloy
1930 – 2022
Bruce Pie
1902 – 1962
C. Pope Caldwell
1875 – 1940
Charles Brand
1873 – 1961
Charles Manby
1804 – 1884
Charles Tilstone Beke
1800 – 1874
Charles Warton
1832 – 1900
Cheng Maoyun
1900 – 1957
Chiune Sugihara
1900 – 1986
Cho Bong-am
1899 – 1959
Cho Ki-chon
1913 – 1951
Christian Stray
1894 – 1981
Claude de Ramezay
1659 – 1724
David Lowe MacIntyre
1895 – 1967
Dennis George Wyldbore Hewitt
1897 – 1917
Diogene Ulyssee Napoleon Maillart
1840 – 1926
Duke Dixon
1862 – 1918
Ebenezer V. Dickey
1821 – 1857
Edgar Maxence
1871 – 1954
Edgar Mobbs
1882 – 1917
Edward W. Scripture
1864 – 1945
Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert
1793 – 1853
Ernest Melville DuPorte
1891 – 1981
Eugene Carson Blake
1906 – 1985
Ferdinand von Wright
1822 – 1906
Feri Horvat
1941 – 2020
Francesco Filelfo
1398 – 1481
Francesco Sfondrati
1493 – 1550
Francis Miles Finch
1827 – 1907
Frederick H. Gillett
1851 – 1935
Fritz G. Lanham
1880 – 1965
Félix-Julien-Jean Bigot de Préameneu
1747 – 1825
Gabriel Talphir
1901 – 1990
Gaetano Negri
1838 – 1902
Genco Erkal
1938 – 2024
Genevieve Tobin
1899 – 1995
George Adee
1874 – 1948
George Wise
1853 – 1950
Georges Abrial
1898 – 1970
Germaine Richier
1902 – 1959
Giorgio Fiocco
1931 – 2012
Giovanni Battista de Toni
1864 – 1924
Giuseppe Albini
1780 – 1859
Gore Vidal
1925 – 2012
Gove Saulsbury
1815 – 1881
Graham Day
1933 – 2025
Guido Crepax
1933 – 2003
Gustav Lindenthal
1850 – 1935
Gustavo Ramírez Vergara
1932 – 2019
Hakon Leffler
1887 – 1972
Hamo Ohanjanyan
1873 – 1947
Harold Prince
1928 – 2019
Harry B. Hawes
1869 – 1947
Harry Johnston
1858 – 1927
Hedley Verity
1905 – 1943
Heinz Waaske
1924 – 1995
Helmuth Liesegang
1858 – 1945
Henry Aglionby Aglionby
1790 – 1854
Henry Shaler Williams
1847 – 1918
Henry Wilfred Brolemann
1860 – 1933
Hipólito de Villegas
1761 – 1841
Hiram C. Haydn
1831 – 1913
Hugo Pipping
1864 – 1944
Hélio Bicudo
1922 – 2018
Ignatius of Loyola
1491 – 1556
Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal
1861 – 1942
Ioan Vancea
1820 – 1892
Ion Dragoumis
1878 – 1920
Ion Niculi
1887 – 1979
Ismail Haniyeh
1962 – 2024
Ivar Aarseth
1889 – 1972
Jack Pizzey
1911 – 1968
James David Edgar
1841 – 1899
James Hastings Duncan
1855 – 1928
James MacLachlan
1919 – 1943
James Price
1757 – 1783
James Waddel Alexander
1804 – 1859
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