July 31 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on July 31, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♌︎ Leo
Jul 23 – Aug 22
Birth stone
Ruby
Birth flower
Larkspur
How common
#75 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous July 31 birthdays
Friedrich Wöhler · German chemist1800
Premchand · Indian writer of Hindi and Urdu fiction1880
Jean Dubuffet · French artist1901
Milton Friedman · American economist and statistician1912
Louis de Funès · French actor and comedian1914
Paul D. Boyer · American biochemist1918
Stephanie Kwolek · American chemist, inventor of Kevlar1923
Hilary Putnam · American philosopher and mathematician1926
John Searle · American philosopher1932
Geraldine Chaplin · British-American actress1944
Robert C. Merton · American economist1944
Richard Griffiths · British actor1947
Michael Biehn · American actor1956
Wesley Snipes · American actor1962
J. K. Rowling · English author1965
Michael Bradley · American soccer player and coach1987
Zelda Williams · American actress1989
Victoria Azarenka · Belarusian tennis player1989
Kyle Larson · American racing driver1992
Lil Uzi Vert · American rapper1995
On this day in history
1777The Second Continental Congress passed a resolution commissioning the Marquis de Lafayette as a major general in the American revolutionary forces.
1874Patrick Francis Healy was inaugurated as president of Georgetown University, becoming the first African-American president of a predominantly white university in the United States.
2007The Troubles: Operation Banner, the British Armed Forces' operation in Northern Ireland, ended after 38 years with a military stalemate and ceasefire.
2012The largest power outage in history occurred across 22 Indian states, affecting more than 620 million people, or about 9 percent of the world's population.
1966The pleasure cruiser MV Darlwyne disappeared off the coast of Cornwall with the loss of all 31 people aboard.
1991The United States and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries' stockpiles.
2000Three years after being hit by a mudslide, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery in Hong Kong fully reopened.
2006Following intestinal surgery, Fidel Castro provisionally transferred the duties of the Cuban presidency to his brother Raúl.
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