About the day » Saturday July 31, 1926Calender converter

• Arthur van Veldhuizen, Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa († 1977)
• Aart Snijders, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1991)
• Bernard Alexander Sims, Victoria, Australia († 2004)
• Ambrosius Geelen, Rotterdam († 1928)
• Andreas Antonius Admiraal, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1995)
• Angela Octavia Francisca Verschueren, Waarloos († 1984)
• Overwater, Amsterdam, Netherlands († 2005)
• Aalt Koele, Oldebroek, Nederland († 1994)
• Alida Jeanette Opdam, Haarlem († 2019)
• Albert van Empel, Buurmalsen (West Betuwe) (GL) († 1991)

• Cornelis Volkens Bunt (80), Blokzijl, Nederland
• Cornelis Willem Roozeboom (5), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Volken Bunt (80), Blokzijl
• Cornelis Bunt (80), Blokzijl, Ov, The Netherlands
• August Wilhelm Lierhaus (30), Mülheim an der Ruhr, Krankenhaus
• Catharina Christina VROEMISSE (1), Deventer, Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Adelheid Schülte (89), Ter Apelkanaal gem . Vlagtwedde
• Aleida Kalters (Krakers) (70), Noord-Berghuizen, 7574, Nederland
• Albert Berghorst (55), Hengelo (0v)
• Beertje Mostert (0), Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland

• 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)
• 1927 » Peter Nichols, English author and playwright († 2019)
• 1928 » Bill Frenzel, American lieutenant and politician († 2014)
• 1929 » Lynne Reid Banks, English author

• 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. Antonius
15. Hendrikus
16. Dirk

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

• 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 August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
• January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
• March 14 » The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
• March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
• April 21 » Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.
• August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
• October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime

The temperature on July 31, 1926 was between 12.4 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.