Interesting people born on July 31 1803 John Ericsson, naval engineer and inventor, developed the screw propeller. 1816 George Henry Thomas, Union general during the American Civil War. 1837 William Clarke Quantrill, Confederate raider during the American Civil War. 1867 S.S. Kresge, American businessman. 1901 Jean Dubuffet, French sculptor and painter. 1912 Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist. 1919 Primo Levi, Italian writer and scientist (Survival in Auschwitz). 1921 Whitney Young, Jr., civil rights leader and executive director of the National Urban League. 1928 Horace Silver, jazz pianist, composer and bandleader. 1951 Evonne Goolagong, Australian tennis player. 1965 J.K. Rowling, author (Harry Potter series).
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