Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/July 31

Births

 * 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

 * 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)

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