In deaths:
| July 31st 1358 | | Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader, dies
| | July 31st 1556 | | Ignatius Loyola, Spanish founder (Jesuit), dies at about 65
| | July 31st 1556 | | St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus, dies in Rome
| | July 31st 1566 | | Bartholom‚ de Casas, Spanish historian/bishop of Chiapa, dies at 92
| | July 31st 1648 | | Benedictus J van Haeften, poet (Regia thru Crucis), dies at about 60
| | July 31st 1693 | | Willem Calf, Rotterdams still life painter, dies at 73
| | July 31st 1750 | | Johan V, King of Portugal, dies
| | July 31st 1763 | | James Kent, Fredericksburgh NY, legal scholar (Columbia), dies
| | July 31st 1784 | | Denis Diderot, French writer/philosopher (Jacques le fataliste), dies
| | July 31st 1790 | | Johann Christian Frischmuth, composer, dies at 48
| | July 31st 1795 | | Jos‚ B da Gama, Portuguese poet (East Uraguay), dies at 54
| | July 31st 1811 | | Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican hero priest, executed by Spanish
| | July 31st 1864 | | Louis Hachette, French publisher, dies at 64
| | July 31st 1875 | | Andrew Johnson, 17th pres, dies in Tennessee at 66
| | July 31st 1886 | | Franz von Liszt, [Ferencz], Hungarian pianist/composer, dies at 74
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