Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/July 31
Births
[edit]- 1893 - Fatima Jinnah, Prominent leader of Pakistan Movement and sister of Jinnah (d. 1967)
- 1911 - George Liberace, American musician (d. 1983)
- 1912 - Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
- 1958 - Mark Cuban, American businessman, producer, and basketball team owner
- 1962 - Wesley Snipes, American actor
- 1965 - J. K. Rowling, British novelist
- 1976 - Annie Parisse, American actress
- 1976 - Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rican footballer
- 1981 - Matthew "M. Shadows" Sanders, American singer (Avenged Sevenfold)
Deaths
[edit]- 1099 - El Cid, Spanish warrior (b. 1044)
- 1547 - King Francis I of France (b. 1494)
- 1875 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
- 1886 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (b. 1811)
- 1953 - Robert A. Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio and Presidential candidate (b. 1889)