About the day » Tuesday July 31, 1900Calender converter

• Adriana Tintel, Capelle aan den IJssel, Gemeente Capelle aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1980)
• Amália de Moura, Itapeva, São Paulo, Brasil († 1924)
• Aleida Hoenderop, Horst
• Alice Vera Schroder, NZ († 1974)
• Aalt Boeve, Garderen († 1983)
• Adriana Maria MEEUS, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, NEDERLAND
• Adriana van Bezouw, Gilze en Rijen († 1979)
• Albert Meeremans, Oombergen († 1967)
• Abraham Fransen, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa († 1986)
• Annechien Kappen, Ter Apelkanaal, Groningen, Netherlands († 1987)

• Arie Heemsbergen (1), Achttienhoven, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bote Stevens (0), Bolsward, Friesland, The Netherlands
• Arien Beerepoot (74), Oude Niedorp
• Albert de Boer (59), Baarlo (Vollenhove, Ambt)
• Anna Huibertje de Wit (1), Sliedrecht
• Albert Hendriks de Boer (59), Baarlo, Ambt Vollenhove
• Albertus Pordon (53), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adrianus de Bruijn (67), Hilvarenbeek, Gemeente Hilvarenbeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alfred Ernst Albert von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha, 3. Herzog von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha, Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Kent and Earl of Ulster (55), Coburg, Coburger Stadtkreis, Bavaria (Bayern), Germany
• Adriaan de Bruijn (67), Hilvarenbeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1892 » Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist and publisher, founded Worldwide Church of God († 1986)
• 1892 » Joseph Charbonneau, Canadian archbishop († 1959)
• 1894 » Fred Keenor, Welsh footballer († 1972)
• 1901 » Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor († 1985)
• 1902 » Gubby Allen, Australian-English cricketer and soldier († 1989)
• 1904 » Brett Halliday, American engineer, surveyor, and author († 1977)
• 1909 » Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Austrian theorist and author († 1999)
• 1911 » George Liberace, American violinist († 1983)
• 1912 » Bill Brown, Australian cricketer († 2008)
• 1912 » Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2006)

• 1864 » Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (b. 1800)
• 1875 » Andrew Johnson, American general and politician, 17th President of the United States (b. 1808)
• 1884 » Kiến Phúc, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1869)
• 1886 » Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1811)
• 1891 » Jean-Baptiste Capronnier, Belgian stained glass painter (b. 1814)
• 1913 » John Milne, British geologist and mining engineer. (b. 1850)
• 1914 » Jean Jaurès, French journalist and politician (b. 1859)
• 1917 » Francis Ledwidge, Irish soldier and poet (b. 1881)
• 1917 » Hedd Wyn, Welsh language poet (b. 1887)
• 1920 » Ion Dragoumis, Greek philosopher and diplomat (b. 1878)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
• February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
• February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
• June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
• July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
• October 25 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.

The temperature on July 31, 1900 was about 16.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%.