Some famous birthdays today:

• Milton Friedman (writer, essayist, economist, scientist, researcher, university teacher, teacher, statistician, born July 31, 1912)
• Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (emperor, born July 21, 1527)
• Louis de Funès (screenwriter, comedian, film director, actor, film actor, stage actor, film producer, dub actor, born July 31, 1914)
• Pertinax (politician, soldier, born August 1, 126)
• Casimir I the Restorer (politician, born July 25, 1016)
• Louis I, Duke of Anjou (monarch, born July 23, 1339)
• Cees Nooteboom (novelist, writer, poet, translator, prose, journalist, literary critic, born July 31, 1933)
• Augustus, Elector of Saxony (ruler, born July 21, 1526)
• John Ericsson (military personnel, engineer, born July 31, 1803)
• Geraldine Chaplin (screenwriter, actor, film actor, television actor, dancer, born July 31, 1944)
• Rudolf Slánský (politician, born July 31, 1901)
• Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (politician, jurist, resistance fighter, born July 31, 1884)
• Michael Biehn (actor, film actor, television actor, film producer, born July 31, 1956)
• José Canalejas (politician, lawyer, university teacher, born July 31, 1854)
• Evgeni Malkin (ice hockey player, born July 31, 1986)
• Emilia Fox (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, born July 31, 1974)
• Tōru Furuya (actor, seiyū, child actor, born July 31, 1953)
• Antoine, Duke of Montpensier (aristocrat, born July 31, 1824)
• Amélie of Leuchtenberg (aristocrat, born July 31, 1812)
• Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of the Two Sicilies (nun, born July 31, 1816)
• Otto, Duke of Austria (sovereign, born July 23, 1301)
• Richard Berry (screenwriter, singer, film director, actor, film actor, stage actor, film producer, director, born July 31, 1950)
• Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus (botanist, born July 31, 1877)
• William S. Clark (politician, university teacher, chemist, botanist, born July 31, 1826)
• Grzegorz Turnau (singer, composer, born July 31, 1967)
• Princess Augusta of Great Britain (politician, born July 31, 1737)
• Edita Piekha (singer, actor, born July 31, 1937)