July 31st, 1874

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Born on July 31st, 1874 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on July 31st, 1874?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on July 31st
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (July 1874)

Born on July 31st, 1874

Weekday

Friday

July 31st, 1874 was a Friday.

Age

149

People born on July 31st, 1874 will turn 150 this year (2024), in exactly 95 days .

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

July 23rd, 1874 - August 23rd, 1874

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 54,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 308 days, exactly on March 1st, 2025, people who were born on July 31st, 1874 will be 55,000 days old!

54,692 Days

7,813 Weeks

1,796 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on July 31st, 1874?

July 31st, 1874

Patrick Francis Healy became the first African-American inaugurated as president of a predominantly white university, Georgetown University.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Francis_Healy

What else happened on July 31st?

July 31st, 2014

Gas explosions in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, killed 32 people and injured 321 others.

July 31st, 2007

The Troubles: Operation Banner, the British Armed Forces' operation in Northern Ireland, ended after 38 years with a military stalemate and ceasefire.

July 31st, 2006

Following intestinal surgery, Fidel Castro provisionally transferred the duties of the Cuban presidency to his brother Raúl.

July 31st, 2002

Hamas detonated a bomb at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, killing nine students and injuring about 100 more.

July 31st, 2000

Three years after being hit by a mudslide, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery in Hong Kong fully reopened.

July 31st, 1991

Soviet Special Purpose Police Unit troops killed seven Lithuanian customs officials in Medininkai in the most serious attack of their campaign against Lithuanian border posts.

July 31st, 1975

The Troubles: In a botched paramilitary attack, three members of the popular Miami Showband and two Ulster Volunteer Force gunmen were killed in County Down, Northern Ireland.

July 31st, 1972

The Troubles: Hours after the British Army's Operation Motorman brought an end to the self-declared autonomous area of Free Derry (Free Derry Corner pictured) in Northern Ireland, three car bombs exploded in the village of Claudy.

July 31st, 1971

Apollo program: The first Lunar Roving Vehicle was used during the Apollo 15 mission to the Moon.

July 31st, 1966

The pleasure cruiser MV Darlwyne disappeared off the coast of Cornwall with the loss of all 31 people aboard.

July 31st, 1954

A team of Italian climbers became the first to reach the summit of K2 (pictured), the world's second-highest mountain.

July 31st, 1941

The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring authorised SS General Reinhard Heydrich to handle preparations for "the Final Solution of the Jewish question".

July 31st, 1924

Herbert Payne's bill introducing compulsory voting in Australia was passed into law.

July 31st, 1917

First World War: The Battle of Passchendaele began near Ypres, Belgium, with the Allies aiming to force German troops to withdraw from the Channel Ports.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on July 31st

Born on July 31st, 1874

Adolph Amberg

German sculptor (1874-1913)

*July 31st, 1874, Hanau †July 7th, 1913, Berlin

Clarence Kolb

Actor (1874-1964)

*July 31st, 1874, Cleveland †November 25th, 1964, Hollywood

Same Day
Who's birthday is on July 31st?

Christina Cox

Canadian actress

*July 31st, 1971, Toronto

J. K. Rowling

British author and philanthropist (born 1965)

*July 31st, 1965, Yate

Louis de Funès

French actor and comedian

*July 31st, 1914, Courbevoie †January 27th, 1983, Nantes

John 5

American guitarist

*July 31st, 1971, Grosse Pointe

Lukas Runggaldier

Italian Nordic combined skier

*July 31st, 1987, Bolzano

João Gomes

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*July 31st, 2002, Serrita

Alejandro Atchugarry

Uruguayan politician

*July 31st, 1952, Montevideo †February 19th, 2017, Montevideo

Milton Friedman

American economist and statistician (1912–2006)

*July 31st, 1912, Brooklyn †November 16th, 2006, San Francisco

C. C. Catch

Dutch-German pop singer

*July 31st, 1964, Oss

Cees Nooteboom

Dutch writer

*July 31st, 1933, The Hague

Riko Gunji

Badminton player

*July 31st, 2002, Ebina

France Nuyen

French actress

*July 31st, 1939, Marseille

Premchand

Hindi author from India (1880-1936)

*July 31st, 1880, Varanasi †October 8th, 1936, Varanasi

Mario von Appen

Canoe racer

*July 31st, 1965, Hamburg

Carl Friedrich Goerdeler

German politician and member of the 20 July plot (1884-1945)

*July 31st, 1884, Piła †February 2nd, 1945, Plötzensee Prison

Franz Joham

*July 31st, 1907, Graz †October 15th, 1991, Barcelona

Michael Bradley

American soccer player

*July 31st, 1987, Princeton

Johnny Carlyle

British ice hockey player and coach

*July 31st, 1929, Falkirk †April 15th, 2017, Larbert

Antonio Conte

Italian association football player and manager

*July 31st, 1969, Lecce

Eve Best

British actress

*July 31st, 1971, London

Same year
Born in 1874

Ludwig Curtius

German classical archeologist

*December 13th, 1874, Augsburg †April 10th, 1954, Rome

Winston Churchill

British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)

*November 30th, 1874, Blenheim Palace †January 24th, 1965, Hyde Park Gate

Guglielmo Marconi

Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)

*April 25th, 1874, Bologna †July 20th, 1937, Rome

Walter Friedrich Otto

German classical philologist (1874-1958)

*June 22nd, 1874, Hechingen †September 23rd, 1958, Tübingen

Hermann Thiersch

German archaeologist

*January 12th, 1874, Munich †June 4th, 1939, Göttingen

Herbert Hoover

President of the United States from 1929 to 1933

*August 10th, 1874, West Branch †October 20th, 1964, New York City

Gustav Holst

British composer

*September 21st, 1874, Cheltenham †May 25th, 1934, London

Anna von Gierke

German politician (1874–1943)

*March 14th, 1874, Wrocław †April 3rd, 1943, Berlin

Robert Frost

American poet; 4x recipient of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

*March 26th, 1874, San Francisco †January 29th, 1963, Boston

Arnold Schoenberg

Austrian-Jewish American composer (1874-1951)

*September 13th, 1874, Vienna †July 13th, 1951, Los Angeles

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist (1874–1929)

*February 1st, 1874, Vienna †July 15th, 1929, Rodaun

G. K. Chesterton

English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936)

*May 29th, 1874, Beaconsfield †June 14th, 1936, Beaconsfield

Howard Carter

British egyptologist

*May 9th, 1874, Brompton †March 2nd, 1939, London

François Brandt

Dutch rower (1874-1949)

*December 29th, 1874, Zoeterwoude †July 4th, 1949, Naarden

Harry Houdini

Hungarian-born American illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer (1874–1926)

*March 24th, 1874, Budapest †October 31st, 1926, Detroit

Johannes Stark

German physicist (1874-1957)

*April 15th, 1874, Freihung †June 21st, 1957, Traunstein

Oskar Nedbal

Czech conductor, composer, and violist (1874–1940)

*March 26th, 1874, Tábor †December 24th, 1930, Zagreb

Börries von Münchhausen

German poet and activist

*March 20th, 1874, Hildesheim †March 16th, 1945, Windischleuba

Selim Sırrı Tarcan

Turkish politician and International Olympic Committee member

*March 24th, 1874, Larissa †March 2nd, 1957, Istanbul

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Canadian writer (1874–1942)

*November 30th, 1874, Prince Edward Island †April 24th, 1942, Toronto

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on July 31st

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Ka Hae Hawaiʻi Day , Lā Hae Hawaiʻi Day) which are celebrated on July 31st.

Earliest day on which the Feast of Kamál (Perfection) can fall, while August 1 is the latest; observed on the first day of the eighth month of the Baháʼí calendar. (Baháʼí Faith)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baháʼí_calendar

End of the Trinity term (sitting of the High Court of Justice of England)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_term

Sovereignty Restoration Day (Hawaiian sovereignty movement)

Ka Hae Hawaiʻi Day (Hawaii, United States), and its related observanceen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty_Restoration_Day

Martyrdom Day of Shahid Udham Singh (Haryana and Punjab, India)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udham_Singh

Treasury Day (Poland)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Poland

Warriors' Day (Malaysia)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes'_Day

Sovereignty Restoration Day (Hawaiian sovereignty movement)

Lā Hae Hawaiʻi Day (Hawaii, United States), and its related observanceen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty_Restoration_Day

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXXI.VII.MDCCCLXXIV

31.7.1874

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

V = 5

IV = 4

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1874 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
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July 31st, 1874

Born on July 31st, 1874

Weekday

Friday

Age

Zodiac

♌

Leo (The Lion)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 54,000 days old!

54,692 Days

7,813 Weeks

1,796 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on July 31st, 1874?

Patrick Francis Healy became the first African-American inaugurated as president of a predominantly white university, Georgetown University.

What else happened on July 31st?

Gas explosions in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, killed 32 people and injured 321 others.

The Troubles: Operation Banner, the British Armed Forces' operation in Northern Ireland, ended after 38 years with a military stalemate and ceasefire.

Following intestinal surgery, Fidel Castro provisionally transferred the duties of the Cuban presidency to his brother Raúl.

Hamas detonated a bomb at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, killing nine students and injuring about 100 more.

Three years after being hit by a mudslide, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery in Hong Kong fully reopened.

Soviet Special Purpose Police Unit troops killed seven Lithuanian customs officials in Medininkai in the most serious attack of their campaign against Lithuanian border posts.

The Troubles: In a botched paramilitary attack, three members of the popular Miami Showband and two Ulster Volunteer Force gunmen were killed in County Down, Northern Ireland.

The Troubles: Hours after the British Army's Operation Motorman brought an end to the self-declared autonomous area of Free Derry (Free Derry Corner pictured) in Northern Ireland, three car bombs exploded in the village of Claudy.

Apollo program: The first Lunar Roving Vehicle was used during the Apollo 15 mission to the Moon.

The pleasure cruiser MV Darlwyne disappeared off the coast of Cornwall with the loss of all 31 people aboard.

A team of Italian climbers became the first to reach the summit of K2 (pictured), the world's second-highest mountain.

The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring authorised SS General Reinhard Heydrich to handle preparations for "the Final Solution of the Jewish question".

Herbert Payne's bill introducing compulsory voting in Australia was passed into law.

First World War: The Battle of Passchendaele began near Ypres, Belgium, with the Allies aiming to force German troops to withdraw from the Channel Ports.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on July 31st

Born on July 31st, 1874

German sculptor (1874-1913)

Actor (1874-1964)

Same Day Who's birthday is on July 31st?

Same year Born in 1874

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on July 31st

Abanoub

Germanus of Auxerre

Ignatius of Loyola

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July 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Earliest day on which the Feast of Kamál (Perfection) can fall, while August 1 is the latest; observed on the first day of the eighth month of the Baháʼí calendar. (Baháʼí Faith)

End of the Trinity term (sitting of the High Court of Justice of England)

Sovereignty Restoration Day (Hawaiian sovereignty movement)

Martyrdom Day of Shahid Udham Singh (Haryana and Punjab, India)

Treasury Day (Poland)

Warriors' Day (Malaysia)

Sovereignty Restoration Day (Hawaiian sovereignty movement)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

31.7.1874

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 54,000 days old!

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on July 31st

Same Day
Who's birthday is on July 31st?

Same year
Born in 1874

Calendar
July 1874

w#	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
27			1	2	3	4	5
28	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
29	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
30	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
31	27	28	29	30	31