July 31st, 2009

Born on July 31st, 2009

Age in days, weeks and months
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Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 477 days, exactly on January 3rd, 2026, people who were born on July 31st, 2009 will be 6,000 days old!

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What happened on July 31st?

July 31st, 1964

The space probe Ranger 7 captured thousands of close-up photographs of the Moon (example pictured) over its final minutes of flight and transmitted them to Earth before crashing on the lunar surface.

July 31st, 1874

Patrick Francis Healy was inaugurated as president of Georgetown University, becoming the first African-American president of a predominantly white university in the United States.

July 31st, 2014

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

July 31st, 2012

The 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.

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 Lunar Roving Vehicle was first 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, 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".

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

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

22

João Gomes

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*July 31st, 2002, Serrita

53

Christina Cox

Canadian actress

*July 31st, 1971, Toronto

37

Lukas Runggaldier

Italian Nordic combined skier

*July 31st, 1987, Bolzano

22

Riko Gunji

Japanese badminton player

*July 31st, 2002, Ebina

59

J. K. Rowling

British author and philanthropist (born 1965)

*July 31st, 1965, Yate

53

John 5

American guitarist

*July 31st, 1971, Grosse Pointe

68

Louis de Funès

French actor and comedian

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

60

C. C. Catch

Dutch-German pop singer

*July 31st, 1964, Oss

64

Alejandro Atchugarry

Uruguayan politician

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

37

Michael Bradley

American soccer player

*July 31st, 1987, Princeton

67

Mark Thompson

Television executive

*July 31st, 1957, London

59

Mario von Appen

Canoe racer

*July 31st, 1965, Hamburg

35

Zelda Williams

American actress

*July 31st, 1989, New York City

63

Paul Duchesnay

French ice dancer

*July 31st, 1961, Metz

91

Cees Nooteboom

Dutch writer

*July 31st, 1933, The Hague

85

France Nuyen

French actress

*July 31st, 1939, Marseille

26

Steffen Tigges

German association football player

*July 31st, 1998, Germany

94

Milton Friedman

American economist and statistician (1912–2006)

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

55

Antonio Conte

Italian association football player and manager

*July 31st, 1969, Lecce

29

Lil Uzi Vert

American rapper from Pennsylvania

*July 31st, 1995, Philadelphia

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Born in 2009

15

Julia Butters

American actress

*April 15th, 2009, Los Angeles

15

Count Henrik of Monpezat

Danish former prince; son of Prince Joachim and Princess Marie of Denmark

*May 4th, 2009, Rigshospitalet

15

Kim Kang-hoon

South Korean actor

*June 7th, 2009, Cheongju

14

Willis Gibson

Tetris player from Oklahoma

*November 30th, 2009, Stillwater

14

Samaya Clark Gabriel

American basketball player

*October 1st, 2009, Brooklyn

15

Heo Yool

South Korean actress

*August 26th, 2009, South Korea

14

Leanne Bautista

Filipino child actress

*October 14th, 2009, Philippines

14

Kler Çaku

Albanian chess player

*November 30th, 2009, Shkodër

15

Fairooj Labiba

Bangladeshi singer

*June 13th, 2009, Khulna

15

Alihan Türkdemir

Turkish actor

*June 29th, 2009, Istanbul

15

Suleman octuplets

Six male and two female children conceived via in vitro fertilization

*January 26th, 2009, Bellflower

15

Txunamy Ortiz

American actress

*March 23rd, 2009, Perris

15

Moon Woo-jin

South Korean television and film actor

*February 19th, 2009, Incheon

15

Hend Zaza

Syrian table tennis player

*January 1st, 2009, Hama

15

Isabella Damla Güvenilir

American-Turkish actress

*January 18th, 2009, New York City

15

Valentina Tronel

French singer

*April 6th, 2009, Rennes

14

Prince Gaston d’Orléans

French prince

*November 19th, 2009, 14th arrondissement of Paris

14

Coco Yoshizawa

Japanese skateboarder

*September 22nd, 2009, Sagamihara

14

Lee Go-eun

South Korean actress

*November 6th, 2009, Incheon

12

Tomiii 11

Chilean YouTuber

*June 13th, 2009, Quinta de Tilcoco †August 30th, 2021, Quinta de Tilcoco

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Public holidays on July 31st

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Born on July 31st, 2009
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 2009 is a normal year and no leap year.

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