About the day » Thursday July 31, 1924Calender converter

• Amadeu Dias da Silva, São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brasil († 2021)
• Aloisius Adrianus Laro, Bergen op Zoom († 2002)
• N.N., Winschoten, Groningen, Nederland († 1924)
• Albertus Hartman, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1943)
• Alida Anna Pronk, Warmenhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Alburga Melania Louise Paulina Van Hecke, Tiegem West-Vlaanderen († 2005)
• Anita Ethel Ritscher († 2006)
• Antonius Franciscus Thoonsen, Rotterdam, Nederland († 2009)
• Borghild Reitan, Reitmoen, Tømmesdalen († 2020)
• Arnoldus Vervoort, Zijtaart, NL († 1964)

• Adolf Nicolaas Scheeren (63), Renkum
• Augustinus Stöver (57), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Schoonderwoerd den Bezemer van, Leiden, ZH, Nederland
• Adrianus Hermanus Geerlings (0), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arjen Kuiken (79), St. Annaparochie, Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van den Berg (63)
• Albertus van Hattem (0), Maurik, Nederland
• Andries van Schoonderwoerd den Bezemer (9), Leiden
• Jacobus Helsloot (75), Lopik
• Alphons Johannes Aloisius Maria van Laarhoven (54), Breda

• 1921 » Donald Malarkey, American sergeant and author († 2017)
• 1921 » Peter Benenson, English lawyer and activist, founded Amnesty International († 2005)
• 1922 » Hank Bauer, American baseball player and manager († 2007)
• 1923 » Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish-American songwriter and producer, founded Atlantic Records († 2006)
• 1923 » Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist and engineer, invented Kevlar († 2014)
• 1924 » Jimmy Evert, American tennis player and coach († 2015)
• 1925 » Carmel Quinn, Irish singer, actress and writer
• 1925 » John Swainson, Canadian-American jurist and politician, 42nd Governor of Michigan († 1994)
• 1926 » Bernard Nathanson, American physician and activist († 2011)
• 1926 » Hilary Putnam, American mathematician, computer scientist, and philosopher († 2016)

• 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)
• 1940 » Udham Singh, Indian activist (b. 1899)
• 1942 » Francis Younghusband, British Army Officer, explorer and spiritual writer (b.1863)
• 1943 » Hedley Verity, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1905)
• 1944 » Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French pilot and poet (b. 1900)
• 1953 » Robert A. Taft, American soldier and politician (b. 1889)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Gerardus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Hendrikus
15. Antonius
16. Arie

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Grietje
15. Helena
16. Alida

• 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
• February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
• March 8 » A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
• June 2 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
• October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
• October 31 » World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
• November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.

The temperature on July 31, 1924 was between 11.5 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.