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What Happened Today 31st July In History?
Find out what happened on 31st July in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occurred on 31st July.
Famous Birthdays in History on this day:
- Mumtaz (born 31 July 1947, Bombay) is a Bollywood actress, best remembered for her roles in Tere Mere Sapne (1971) and Khilona (1970). Her performance in Khilona got her the Filmfare Best Actress Award, while the film itself won the Filmfare Best Movie Award. She is cited as one of the top Bollywood sex symbols of her time. Mumtaz was born to Abdul Saleem Askari and Shadi Habib Agha in Bombay.
- Premchand (July 31, 1880 – October 8, 1936) was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindi-Urdu literature. He is one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent, and is regarded as one of the foremost Hindi-Urdu writers of the early twentieth century.
- Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (July 31, 1907 – June 29, 1966) was an Indian mathematician, statistician, Marxist historian, and polymath who contributed to genetics by introducing Kosambi’s map function. He is well known for his work in numismatics and for compiling critical editions of ancient Sanskrit texts.
- Gopal Prasad (born on July 31, 1945 in Ghazipur, India) is an Indian mathematician. His research interests span the fields of Lie groups, their discrete subgroups, algebraic groups, arithmetic groups, geometry of locally symmetric spaces, and representation theory of reductive p-adic groups. He is the Raoul Bott Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Death anniversaries on 31st July:
- Mohammad Rafi (December 24, 1924 – July 31, 1980) is considered by many to be the greatest Indian male playback singer of all time in Hindi Film Industry. In his lifetime, he was awarded the National Film Award, Best National Singer Award and six Filmfare Awards. In 1967, he was honoured with the Padma Shri award by the Government of India.
- Udham Singh (December 26, 1899 – July 31, 1940) was an Indian independence activist, best known for assassinating Michael O’Dwyer in March 1940 in what has been described as an avenging of the Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre. Udham Singh changed his name to Ram Mohammad Singh Azad, symbolizing the unification of the three major religions of India: Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism.
- Joseph Albert Rosario, M.S.F.S (30 May 1915 – 31 July 2011) was an Indian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was one of oldest Roman Catholic Bishiops and the oldest bishop from India. Rosario was born in Nagpur, India on 30 May 1915. He was ordained priest on 29 September 1944 in the [religious institute]] of the Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales.
- Allu Rama Lingaiah (1 October 1922 – 31 July 2004), commonly known as Allu, was an Indian Telugu language comedic actor from Palakollou, India who appeared in over one thousand Tollywood films. Rama Lingaiah began his film career in 1953 with Puttillu and finished his last film Jai in the year before his death.
Notable Events:
- 1658 – Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor.
- 1861 – 9,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam becomes a world record.
- 1865 – Jagannath Sunkersett, great social worker, educationist and sculptor of modern Mumbai, passed away at the age of 62.
- 1880 – Nawab Rai\Dhanpat Rai, ‘Prem Chand’, great litterateur, writer, editor, journalist and headmaster, was born at Lamahi village near Varanasi, UP.
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